SPYRO -the Iguana

by Colton Longstreth
(United states Rushville Ohio)

Ok well im 15 and i live in ohio. This is how I acquired spyro, I was at school and I over heard a 12th grader talking about how she was going to let this lizard go and me having two ball pythons I knew that just lettin a lizard go in ohio wouldn't survive, so i spoke up and asked her what kind it was. she said it was an iguana! I had asked why she was getting rid of it she said he/she was 'mean' and she didn't know it was going to get so big, and take so much care. well i got home that day and searched the net for whatever I could find about iguanas. I ended up doing none of my school work at home. I did my home work on iguanas for 3 weeks straight before he/she actually arrived! he arrived in the dead of winter -i grabbed him out of the box, wrapped him up in a blanket and decided to name him spyro, you know the playstation 1 game with the little purple dragon haha!

Me having an A in shop I decided to build him a decent sized cage, with some help of my mom's boy friend we got the job done for only 76 bucks! Made from oak and 6ft long aluminum sheets cut to size, and chicken wire for extra climbing room. I know the cage won't be big enough for the rest of his life so i guess it's till he out grows it. The cage is 5 foot long and 3 1/2 feet tall i think. But anyway since i've gotten him he's grown a whole 6 inches. He doesn't like the color pink he turns but he's actually not mean at all -he hates carrots loves grapes as treats, and is always intrested in my moms chihuahua haha -well that's spyros story!!!