from the wife, I agreed to take in an adult sav this weekend.
I couldn't let it continue to get subpar care and decided that even though the wife is not too thrilled with a cage that will take up most of the snake room for one animal, I would take it in.
It's scarred up from being kept in too small a cage where it can come into contact with heat lamps, being fed live with not enough room to move to get the food, and severely obese.
The monitor is about 3 1/2 feet from nose to tail tip and at least 10 pounds (did I mention it was obese?).
I just couldn't stand to think of it wasting away in a 30 gallon tank (did I also mention the tank is way too small for it) with an owner who did not want it or it going to a petstore to be sold to someone else who has no idea what they are getting into.
So even though the wife is not too thrilled, I am taking it in and will rehab it and give it a nice LARGE enclosure.
I'll have more specifics such as what they scarring is like, how large (or small) it is, and what it actually weighs when I go to pick it up. I'll post a photo of what it looks like when it arrives and what it looks like after it gets the care a monitor like this deserves.
Man, people need to stop buying these $25 babies and thinking they can dump it into an aquarium to live and then just dump it off when they get tired of it and it outgrows it's tiny cage.