Iguana Foster Home/Home-visitor Form

First, tell us about you!

Tell us how to get in touch with you:  (Please Enter Your Snail Mail Address so we may investigate fostering opportunities in your area and place you in our database)

Please contact me via Telephone  E-mail    Snail Mail

If you are not located in MN, are you willing to Drive to MN to adopt an iguana? yes    no

Are you 18 or older? yes    no

Are you willing to foster an iguana in your area?  yes    no  

If no, would you consider fostering if IRN could provide an enclosure?   yes    no (IRN will always provide enclosures to foster homes if the iguana's former guardians surrender the enclosure with the surrender of their iguana).  

Are you willing to complete home visits in your area? yes    no  If yes, what is the limit you will drive in miles to complete a home-visit?  (You are not required to do every home-visit I.R.N. asks of you)  There is no limit to how far I will travel. Up to 10 miles away from home. Up to 25 miles away from home. Up to 50 miles away from home. Up to 100 miles away from home. Up to 200 miles away from home. Up to 500 miles away from home. Other (please specify number of miles below)

Other:

Do you already have a habitat set up for your potential foster iguana?  yes    no

If yes, please describe it below.  If no, please describe what you would ideally provide.

Substrate: lighting: heating: circulation: cage furniture: plants: water: cage material: dimensions: __ l x __ h x __ w FEET dietary requirements:

What has been the nature your experience with the Giant Green Iguanas?

Number of iguana(s): Age of iguana(s): Sex of iguana(s): Number of months or years spent caring for each iguana: __ months, __ years How were they acquired? Other comments on experience with iguanas?

About how many hours a day do you have to spend caring for the said animal? less than one hour 1 hour 2 hours 3 hours 4 hours 4-5 hours 5+ hours

How many hours do you expect it will take to care for the said animal? less than one hour 1 hour 2 hours 3 hours 4 hours 4-5 hours 5+ hours

Do you have necessary funds to care for this animal properly?  yes    no

Will you be able to bring this animal in to a herpetological veterinarian if necessary?  yes    no

How long do you think it is necessary to quarantine this animal before introducing it to other animals?

Do you require more care information regarding the said species?  yes    no

Please describe the diet that your current iguanas are on, including supplements and a rough percentage of each food:

How much food do you or would you feed overall (i.e. 1 c., 3 c., etc.) How often do you feed your or would you feed your iguana(s)? Types of Greens: % Greens in diet: Veggies: % Veggies in diet: Fruits: % Fruits in diet: Supplements: Amount of each?

What other herptiles have you had experience with in the past?

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Amphibian Species

African Clawed Frog Amphiuma Arboreal Glass Frog Archey's Frog Asian Painted Frog Asiatic Climbing Toad Axolotl Bare-hearted Glass Frog Bullfrog Burrowing Treefrog Caecilian Cane Toad Cape Ghost Frog Central American Treefrog Chinese Fire Bellied Toad Common Rain Frog Crucifix Toad Darwin's Frog Dwarf Siren Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad European Common Frog European Painted Frog Fire Salamander Funereal Poison Frog Glass Frog Golden Mantella Golden Toad Gold Frog Gray Treefrog Greater Siren Green and Golden Bell Frog Green Tree Frog Hellbender Leopard Frog Leopard Toad Marbled Newt Marsupial Frog Meadow Treefrog Mexican Burrowing Toad Mudpuppy Orange and Black Poison Frog Oriental Fire-bellied Toad Ornate Burrowing Frog Ornate Horned Frog Painted Reed Frog Paradox frog Pickerel Frog Poison Frog Red-Banded Crevice Creeper Red-eyed Tree Frog Red Salamander Senegal Running Frog Solomon Islands Treefrog South American Bullfrog Spadefoot Spotted Grass Frog Strawberry Poison Frog Surinam Toad Tailed Frog two-lined salamander Unknown Salamander Unknown Newt Variable Harlequin Frog Wallace's Flying Frog Water-holding Frog Waterlilly Frog Western Barking Frog Other Amphibian species (not listed):

Duration of experience(s) Please include a description pertaining to each species.  

i.e. African Clawed frog experience for __ months, __ years:
Red-eyed Tree Frog Experience for __ months, __ years:

Nature of experience(s) Please include a description pertaining to each species.

i.e. African Clawed frog experience includes:
Red-eyed Tree Frog Experience includes:

Chelonian Species

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Alligator Snapping Turtle Big-headed Turtle Box Turtle Chaco Tortoise Common Snapping Turtle Eastern Box Turtle Eastern Snake-necked Turtle Eastern Spiny Softshell European Pond Turtle Flat-back Turtle Galapagos Giant Tortoise Great African Tortoise Green Turtle Helmeted Turtle Leathery Turtle Loggerhead Malayan Snail-eating Turtle Olive Ridleys Ornate Box Turtle Pacific Hawksbill Pancake Tortoise Painted Turtle Radiated Tortoise Red-eared Slider Russian Tortoise Sawback or False Map Turtle Southern Loggerhead Musk Turtle Sulcata Tortoise Spined or Cogwheel Turtle Three-toed Box Turtle Twist-necked Turtle Yellow-spotted Amazon River Turtle Other Chelonian species (not listed):

Duration of experience(s) Please include a description pertaining to each species.  

i.e. Common Snapping Turtle experience for __ months, __ years:
Big-headed Turtle Experience for __ months, __ years:

Nature of experience(s) Please include a description pertaining to each species.

i.e. Common Snapping Turtle experience includes:
Big-headed Turtle Experience includes:

Crocodilian Species

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African Dwarf Crocodile American Alligator Australian Freshwater Crocodile Black Caiman Broad-snouted Caiman Chinese Alligator Cuban Crocodile Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman False Gharial Gharial Jacare Caiman Johnston's Crocodile Mugger New Guinea Crocodile Nile Crocodile Orinoco Crocodile Philippine Crocodile Saltwater Crocodile Schneider's Dwarf Caiman Siamese Crocodile Spectacled Caimans Other Crocodilian species (not listed):

Duration of experience(s) Please include a description pertaining to each species.  

i.e. American Alligator experience for __ months, __ years:
Gharial experience for __ months, __ years:

Nature of experience(s) Please include a description pertaining to each species.

i.e. American Alligator experience includes:
Gharial experience includes:

Lizard Species

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Agama Agama, Butterfly Agama, Toad-headed Alligator Lizard Ameiva Anole, Brown Anole, Green Anole, Jamaican giant Anole, Knight Anole, Sail-tailed Anole, Smallwood's Asian Water Dragon Australian Water Dragon Basilisk, Brown Basilisk, Common Bearded Dragon Basilisk, Green Basilisk, Western or Red-headed Chameleon, Flap-necked Chameleon, Four-horned Chameleon, Graceful Chameleon, Jackson's Chameleon, Leaf Chameleon, Mountain Chameleon, Namaqua Chameleon, panther Chameleon, Senegal Chameleon, Veiled Chuckwalla Chuckwalla, Arizona Chuckwalla, Glen Canyon Chuckwalla, Mexican Chuckwalla, Sonoran Chuckwalla, Variable Chuckwalla, Western Collard Lizard Cone-headed lizard Curly-tailed lizard Eastern Fence lizard Flattened rock lizard Flying Dragon Frilled lizard Gecko, Australian Velvet Gecko, Day Gecko, Central American Banded Gecko, Fat-tailed Gecko, Helmeted Gecko, Indonesian Skunk Gecko, Leaf-tailed Gecko, Leopard Gecko, Mexican Banded Gecko, New Caledonian Gecko, Tokay Gecko, Northern Velvet Glass Lizard Green lizard, Common Green lizard, Spanish Horned Iguana, Casque-headed Iguana, Club-tailed Iguana, Cuban Rock Iguana, Cyclura Iguana, Desert Iguana, Green Iguana, Helmeted Iguana, Spiny-tailed Jeweled lizard Lacerta Leopard lizard, long-nosed Leopard lizard, short-nosed Monitor, Emerald Tree Monitor, Nile Monitor, Savanna Monitor, Zimbabwe Rock Mountain Dragon Night lizard, desert Night lizard, granite Night lizard, greater Plated lizard Racerunner Rainbow Lizard Rock lizard, Baja Rock lizard, Banded Sailfin lizard Sandfish, common Sandfish, eastern Side-blotched lizard Skink, Algerian Skink, Australian blue-tongued Skink, barrel Skink, blotched blue-tongued Skink, broadhead Skink, Cunningham's Skink, eastern blue-tongued Skink, egernine Skink, fire Skink, Great Plains Skink, major Skink, New Guinean blue-tongued Skink, Northern blue-tongued Skink, ocellated Skink, pink-tongued Skink, prehensile-tailed giant Skink, pygmy spiny-tailed Skink, sand Skink, Schneider's Skink, shingle-backed Slow worm Spiny lizard, blue Spiny lizard, bunch-grass Spiny lizard, common Spiny lizard, crevice Spiny lizard, desert Spiny lizard, granite Spiny lizard, prairie Sungazer Swift, emerald Swift, malachite Tegu, black and white Tegu, dwarf Tegu, red Tree lizard Thorny Devil Tree Dragon Tree-runner Uromastyx Zonosaur, four-striped Zonosaur, giant Zonosaur, green Zonosaur, two-striped Other Lizard species (not listed):

Duration of experience(s) Please include a description pertaining to each species.  

i.e. Green Iguana experience for __ months, __ years:
Tokay Gecko experience for __ months, __ years:

Nature of experience(s) Please include a description pertaining to each species.

i.e. Green Iguana experience includes:
Tokay Gecko experience includes:

Snake Species

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General Snakes

African Twig Blind Broad-headed Brown, eastern Brown, king Burrowing Copperhead Coral, Arizona Coral, Costa Rican Dwarf Egg-eating Eleephant's Trunk Flowerpot Flying Garter Garter, red-sided Grass Hognose, eastern Hognose, Malagasy giant Hognose, western House Indian wolf King Kingsnake, scarlet Kukri Marine Milk, eastern Milk, plains Pipe, blotched Pipe, coral Rat, black Rat, Mandarin Ribbon Sea Sea, turtle headed Sea, yellow-bellied Shield-nosed Shield-tailed Smooth, European Smooth, northern Smooth, southern Spotted harlequin Sunbeam Tentacled Terrestrial Thread Tiger Toad-eater Tree Tree, blunt-headed Tree, brown Tree, long-nosed Tree, plain Vine Water Water, banded Western-keeled Whip Whip, yellow-faced White-bellied mangrove Wood Wormsnake, blind     Adders death Peringuey's desert Puff     Blindsnakes Australian Giant Pacific     Boas Brazilian Rainbow Columbian Red-tailed Constrictor Puerto Rican Kenyan sand Keel-scaled Rubber

Cobras Cape Central Asian Egyptian Forest King Spitting Spitting, black necked Spitting, Mozambique Water     Filesnakes Arafura Marine     Pythons African African Rock Australian Australian scrub Australian Water Blood Burmese Carpet Green Tree Indian Pygmy Reticulated Worma     Rattlesnakes Arizona Black Baja Californian Banded Rock Blacktail Canebrake Chihuahuan Ridge-nose Costa Rican Diamondback Diamondback, western Lance-headed Mexican Lance-headed Mottled-rock Panamint speckled Prairie Tiger Timber Twin-spotted Eastern Massasauga

Vipers Burrowing Desert Desert, rough-scaled Desert, Saharan Eyelash Gaboon Hog-nosed Latifi's Pit Rhinoceros Saw-scaled Wagler's palm     Other Snake species (not listed):

Duration of experience(s) Please include a description pertaining to each species.  

i.e. Green Tree Python experience for __ months, __ years:
Black Rat Snake experience for __ months, __ years:

Nature of experience(s) Please include a description pertaining to each species.

i.e. Green Tree Python experience includes:
Black Rat Snake experience includes:

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Thank you so much for your interest!  We are looking forward to working with you!