What is the worst escape that you have ever been associated with? I've had a few. The most memorable was when some schoolchildren took their iguana out to sun on a leash (i visit schools for the museum), and it escaped. Up a tree. A big tree. I ended up climbing the tree (40+ feet) after the 4' iguana, getting a special capture device on him, and then bringing him to me. Okay right? wrong! He got out of the loops on the device (the one I had was for alligators), and i ended up catching him with my hand. so i had to wait while they tossed up a ope and bucket to send him down in. There's others, but I'm too lazy to post them at the moment.
The Worst Escapes
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um was walking the dog on the common, and came across an iguana. as you can imagine in the uk this was a bit odd. my mum knew whose it was, they dont live too far away, but yea, it was a bit of a shock that it was there in the first place to be honest.
here's another...I have a greenhouse where a lot of my herps live with some plants, etc. and a couple 400g tanks and some kiddie pools. So one day, (a warm day) I forget to lock the door, and some kid opens it (i let the neighborhood kids come in my yard. I'm "the animal guy") A few minutes later, like Noah just let down the gangplank. I had to resort to my netgun to capture them all. Amazingly, no losses, all the way down the last anole.
first off my black spitting cobra.. 2nd my african pike... 3rd my african pike ... well both fishes escape to hel....i have a box turtle who used to get out of his cage all the time and id find him walkin around my room so i just got rid of his big enclosure and let him walk around the room all day and put him in a smaller tank to sleep at night. kinda like a cat or somethin
in the way of herps
greenhouse-
1x blue tongue skink
1x green iguana
7x anolis carolinensis
countless x common skinks
2x breeder anoles
2x female eastern box turtle
1x male eastern box turtle
2x northern ringneck snake
5x red eye tree frogs
3x costa rican golden frogs
2x sulcata toirtoises
inside
3x dendrobates pumilio (blue jeans poison dart frog)
2x (male and female?) tinctorius azureus
all poison dart frogs are new CB's very excited
2 more breeder anoles
1x bearded dragon
6x korean green subspecies firebelly toad (bombina orientalis koriensis)
3x firebelly newts
10x paddle tail newts
4x gray tree frogs (WC from a construction zone)
1x glass lizard
5x CH storeria dekayi (debris snake)
2x CH worm snake (albinos!)
1x green tree python
some other things of interest which are not herps
(all inside)
3x cockatiels (natural coloration)
1x african grey parrot
1x sugar glider
soon to get-
coati mundi
leaf muntjak
dwarf nigerian goats
i'll list them alll some day. and don't even get me started on f ish