#speckledsnail

Gardian Of The Earth...

Yeah, Kaiju’s actually one of them! (Well, she’s not now. Now she lives in an apartment and expects her food to be hand-delivered.) She’s from the Homestead colony. But! That wasn’t your question!

Your question was “will a wild ‘gu eat someone’s pets,” and the answer is no. Tegus aren’t like snakes. An adult Burmese python could eat someone’s pet- they can eat prey larger than their head, after all- but tegus don’t have the jaws that sling forward and the expando-chin. Most fully grown tegus struggle consuming fully-grown r.ats;  your average housecat’s going to be way too big for them. Adult also aren’t exactly apex hunters. They’ll eat things they come across in the wild, of course- but they’re much better scavengers than they are hunters. The prey they actually take is usually insects, mollusks, small injured things, rodents- you get the gist, yeah? Nothing as big and as talented at defending itself as a cat. They’ll wreak absolute havoc on wildlife, especially bird populations- but not because they can catch a bird, but because they LOVE eggs. And frogs. Lordy do they love frogs- that makes up the bulk of their diet in some wild populations. 

Now, a tegu might fight with your cat or dog, but they’re not going to eat them. An adult tegu can do a LOT of damage when it feels threatened and could seriously hurt or kill a smaller dog or a cat, but they don’t really pose much of a threat to domesticated animals. (Except for chickens. Tegus are notorious for raiding chicken nests, so much so that many chicken farmers in their native areas stopped keeping chickens and switched to farming tegus because the lizards were such a pain in the neck.)

Jinkies

10: When was your last physical fight?

elementary school i think?

20: Where was the last place you snogged someone?

my bedroom

30: What’s irritating you right now?

that it takes time for things to (maybe) get better but everything’s been shitty for me for a while, that i still have some feelings for someone even after a year, that it’s probably not the best time for me to start seeing people but i still don’t like being alone. there’s plenty of things that are irritating me rn

40: Have you ever walked outside completely naked?

not yet

60: Do you wanna get married?

i think i would like to but there’s so many things i want to see and do before settling down

70: Is there anyone you would die for?

I sure do. Ya doof.