Texas Horned Lizard rescue and release part I

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Pets & Animals

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• horned lizard. horny toad
• texas horned lizard
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[22CODPRO22]

horned lizards are native to texas and what part of texas

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@22CODPRO22 3 species are native to Texas. This one is a protected species. They are native all over the state, and I saw my first one in the pine forest of east Texas near Houston about 1978 or 79. Now days they are pretty much extinct there. You have to go west of Austin/Dallas/Waco to find very many of them. I see about 5 or 6 a year where I am, but I get ppl from all over telling me where they see them. Reports from downtown OKC 3 years in a row.

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@psnuabb619 It's clear you are the immature piece of shit who can't handle the truth of a matter and only wants emotions stroked, like a little baby. That's fine. Grow up when you want to...but stay they hell away from anything that requires responsibility and maturity in the meantime, moron.

[psnuabb619]

@PhrynosomaTexas maan you burn in hell you piece of shit i just wanted some answers but your a dick about your a bad expert fuuuck youu i,ll grow up when i want!!

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@psnuabb619 And your response here makes it abundantly clear that you aren't mature or responsible enough, and that these words don't mean much to you. You have killed 2 threatened species, yet what you are worried about is YOUR FEELINGS? I really don't give a rip about your personal feelings. Two horny toads are dead. I don't care if it makes you feel worse that someone tells you bluntly. Grow up and think of something other than your own feelings.

[psnuabb619]

@PhrynosomaTexas geez ok i,m sorry make me feel worse

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@psnuabb619 And the fact that you had them for a few months, shows just how short their life span is once taken into captivity if you don't know what you are doing. In the wild they might have lived to be a dozen years old. One very experienced herpetologist kept one alive for 18 years, but you shouldn't be trying. Now, go forth and educate others, and NEVER do this again.

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@psnuabb619 Look, I wrote a manual that is almost 60 pages long for zoos to teach zoologists how to keep them alive so that they could breed them, and not even zoos are that good at it because horned lizards are highly sensitive to captivity. Nobody with less than 10 years of lizard keeping experience should even be trying to keep a horned lizard. There are far too many reasons why they might have died, but tops on the list is probably heat stress and captive induced stress followed by poor diet

[PhrynosomaTexas]

@psnuabb619 What do I expect? I expect that regardless of you being a teenager, you don't violate the law and attempt to keep threatened species you don't know how to care for. You are old enough to know better, or your parents are, and you shouldn't have been allowed to keep them. Since you are a minor, your parents could face arrest by a game warden.

[psnuabb619]

@PhrynosomaTexas i tried breeding them to make more i swear but they died..