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07-20-2006, 10:52 PM
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Well Grim, anything yet? Don't keep me in suspence!
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07-21-2006, 02:48 AM
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I'm gonna be honest and say I haven't found him , and ive hit the week mark... i don't know what else to do, i check in all sorts of every places every night and I just can't find him.... It really sucks but I think he is dead and im probably never gonna get a monitor lizard again because of it... I feel like the worst herp owner in the world being unable to find him ... But in all seriousness there isn't much else I can do.. Its not like I can afford a thermal imaging camera to stick behind the walls to find him..
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07-21-2006, 02:52 AM
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Oh, Grim, I am so sorry! I know how you feel, believe me... But reptiles didn't get their reputation as escape artists for nothing. It sounds like you really have done everything you can. Hang in there.
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07-21-2006, 03:19 AM
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I've been driving all over amarillo looking for live rat traps but those are harder to find than I thought...
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07-21-2006, 12:00 PM
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A week and you think it's dead? Don't give up yet. I had a hatchling Varanus brevicauda (smallest monitor in the world) escape from me.
This thing was tiny!
It eventually turned up three months later, skinny and dehydrated but alive. It recovered very quickly and immediately started putting on weight and growing. It is living at a friend's place now and is alive and healthy.
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07-21-2006, 06:13 PM
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Grim,
Im sorry to hear the you still have not caught him, but as Crocdoc said DON'T GIVE UP. Things like this can happen, it doesn't mean you were negligent. I'll keep my fingers crossed!
How big a monitor are we talking? Just thinking that if you could drop down into the wall a box of some sort, with a instant heating pad taped to the outside of the box (they can last up to 8 hours), and some food source in the box, and a couple of lines attached to the box so that if he crawled in to eat and get warm, he might fall asleep and then in the morning be sure to pull up on the string attached to the front of the box so he cannot escape as you pull the box out of the wall. Just an idea!
Keep us posted!
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07-21-2006, 11:46 PM
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the best thing to do is to leave it alone and try to come home mid-day, when you're normally at school and no one is at home. The chances of you surprising it out in the open are greater, or at very least hearing it scurrying off when you open the door.
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07-23-2006, 03:02 PM
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Sorry to hear you still havnt found him yet Grim! But as the others have said dont give up
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07-24-2006, 01:19 AM
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Well if its true he could survive as long as you say, then i'll be setting up rat traps(live they won't hurt him at all) with brained pinkies in them and I have an electric bottom heater ive had turned on in my room in hopes id find him sitting on it, but ive had no luck. Only problem is all this is gonna have to wait a week... Im in a hotel room in colorado springs on our family vacation...
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