Day 173-Buddie's great escape.

My iguana, Buddie ran away from home last week. It's not the first time and I don't think it will be the last.

You see, this time of year is when she would be preparing an area to lay her eggs. Iguanas can produce eggs even without a male iguana, they just won't be fertilized and Buddie has, when she was younger, laid as many as 50 eggs over a two day period. In the past, she has gone through great lengths to escape during this time of year, despite our efforts to create a nesting box for her. In the wild, they dig burrows underground and fill them with eggs.

When we lived in Brooklyn, she ripped a hole in the screen and climbed down the side of a two story house . More recently, she ripped a hole in our screen room and was missing for a week. Someone found her a mile from our house.

She hasn't produced any eggs in a few years now (she's 10 years old) but she still goes through the same ritual of wanting to get out. So last week, she was missing and I start freaking out. Luckily we found her a few hours later, sleeping on one of my neighbors front lawn. We realised she got out through the doggie door. It was really only a matter of time before she figured it out.

Today we were outside in the hot tub and she tried to do it again.



I let her go for a while so she could get some exercise, but she wasn't happy that I was following her and taking her picture. She kept stopping and looking at me. I guess it's no fun running away when mom is with you. :-)