My wife is very much an animal lover. As soon as she saw the iguana, she wanted to hold it right away. I was content to just pet it.
On a side topic
We have a couple of Am-Staffs (American Staffordshire Terriers) that we both love to death. For those of you that don't know what an AmStaff is, its pretty much a pittbull. Thanks to Cesar Millan, and his TV show, we can make them mind us now as well! These breeds (one of the bully breeds) are very strong willed. HOwever, I just want everyone to know that when you hear of a pit biting someone, its because the pit was either trained to bite people, or was abused. Pits are normally agressive towards other dogs (breed originally to fight), but are not normally agressive towards people. In fact, my male, whenever he sees someone he doesn't know and is being walked by them, will drop his front down, and spread out his front legs with his butt in the air wagging his tail (this is the 'puppy play' body language) because he doesn't know that not all people are friendly.
My wife loves our dogs to death, and she has a bunch of wild birds as well. Seeing a freindly iguana for her is like putting a kid in a candy store.
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CBulen