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Help! My Iguana Just Pooped Everywhere

My iguana has never gone to the bathroom outside his cage, and today I took him out he was fine sitting on me then pooped, but there was no black it was just a lot and a lot of water and white. I put him back to change and looked on the bottom of his cage and it was all wet too, some black but a lot of wet. Am I giving him too much water? Too many veggies?

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Re: Help! My Iguana Just Pooped Everywhere

Sounds like urates is what got you. As for the cage, they just sometimes like to "poop smear" everything in sight... Welcome to ig slavehood!
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Is that bad?

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Re: Help! My Iguana Just Pooped Everywhere

Nope, just normal.
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Re: Help! My Iguana Just Pooped Everywhere

That is absolutely normal! Many of mine do it a lot, especially when they are mad! Phew,, lol, I have one that will scratch at the door to his enclosure, and what that means for him, is that it is time that you jump up and rub his big fat head. If you do not rub his head he will poop smear all over his enclosure and give you a strange look. You can bet everything you own on the fact that he will do it, if you do not respond, lol. So, when he scratches at the door I jump, lol. I also have a few in here at the moment who do it just to annoy me, I am sure of it, lol.

You are experiencing everything that is normal is the iguana keeping world!
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Re: Help! My Iguana Just Pooped Everywhere

But he doesn't poop smear he "peed," and I know they don't normally have completely water part it's the white part but this was 98% water 2% white 0% black.

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Re: Help! My Iguana Just Pooped Everywhere

Actually having a lot of water in there is a good sign.
It means that he is getting alot of fluids!

Many iguanas are kept in a state of borderline dehydration. You can't give him too much water!
Just watch for the next day or two and see if the behavior continues. If there is still not brown try a bit of canned pumpkin.
When Zok lets loose there are times it sounds like a firehose!
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Re: Help! My Iguana Just Pooped Everywhere

It's just part of growing up, Dizzy went through a phase where I swear I almost killed him because his bathroom habits were so erratic.
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Re: Help! My Iguana Just Pooped Everywhere

He has brown, but alot of water. Glad to know he's ok. I gave him a fresh bowl of water yesterday and like 20 mins later I came back in there and caught him drinking it all; he's being goofy I think he is planning an attack.

His place is plenty humid and his food has plenty of water but I guess he's still thirsty... or thought his little act was funny.

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Re: Help! My Iguana Just Pooped Everywhere

The joys of owning an ig. Poop painting is their way of getting your attention, like you really need to clean my cage out, I'm mad at you for not letting me out on time. If you have a routine with your ig and you get out of it a little that will trigger it as well. Both my boys are great artists at poop painting.

 


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