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Pet Handbooks
The Iguana Handbook
Titles in this popular series provide detailed instructions on health care, proper feeding and housing and other facts important to owners and their pets. All books in the series have high-quality, full-color photos and instructive line drawings.
163 pages, Paperback
First published May 15, 2000
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June 1, 2016There were a number of things that I didn't expect from this book that I discovered while reading it. The first was the amount of scientific jargon that it uses. I continually had to look up words either in the glossary or a dictionary. It did use parentheses to note that gravid meant pregnant once, but it did this after it had already used the term, so the parenthetical note was moot.
The second thing I was surprised at was the amount of information about iguanas in general that this book had. While I didn't read this book for this information, I did enjoy learning about the different species of iguana that are all over the Americas. I think if I could have any iguana as a pet and difficulty of care was not an issue, I'd love to have a chuckwalla, the baggy looking desert iguana of the American southwest.
This brings me to my final point. I checked out this book because I'd like to have a pet in my life and I've always had an interest in reptiles. I thought an iguana would be nice because they don't (necessarily) eat meat and I'd heard they can be allowed to roam free in a house. As I learned from this book, caring for an iguana is an immense commitment of time, energy, and money that I don't have the resources to give at this time in my life. They also can be very, very unfriendly and can't always be trained to play nice with an owner. I guess you just can't have your cake and eat it too. That is to say, you can't have a unique, exotic pet that is also friendly and easy to care for. Maybe a puppy would be more appropriate.
The second thing I was surprised at was the amount of information about iguanas in general that this book had. While I didn't read this book for this information, I did enjoy learning about the different species of iguana that are all over the Americas. I think if I could have any iguana as a pet and difficulty of care was not an issue, I'd love to have a chuckwalla, the baggy looking desert iguana of the American southwest.
This brings me to my final point. I checked out this book because I'd like to have a pet in my life and I've always had an interest in reptiles. I thought an iguana would be nice because they don't (necessarily) eat meat and I'd heard they can be allowed to roam free in a house. As I learned from this book, caring for an iguana is an immense commitment of time, energy, and money that I don't have the resources to give at this time in my life. They also can be very, very unfriendly and can't always be trained to play nice with an owner. I guess you just can't have your cake and eat it too. That is to say, you can't have a unique, exotic pet that is also friendly and easy to care for. Maybe a puppy would be more appropriate.
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