Lizard love: Indore juice shop owner pays Rs 2 lakhs for pet iguanas
Indore: It was an unusual day for a juice shop owner at Indore in Madhya Pradesh as a large number of people gathered outside his stall to catch the glimpse of a pair of iguana lizards.
According to news agency ANI, juice shop owner, Raju Sagar, paid a whopping sum of Rs 2 lakhs for the exotic pets.
According to Raju, he bought the 4.5-foot-long lizards from Mumbai the same day he had heard of them. The man, who already has 4-5 lizards as pets, had been wanting to have an iguana as a pet for a long time.
"Look at the many designs on it. It is really a miracle of nature," the proud pet owner said.
Huge crowd gathered at a juice shop to take a glimpse of a pair of Iguana lizards in Indore; owner of the shop Raju Sagar bought the lizards, a native of South America, in Rs 2 lakhs from Mumbai #MadhyaPradesh pic.twitter.com/zEm8TN4FBG
— ANI (@ANI) March 16, 2018
The ANI video shows people congregating at the juice shop to look at the huge lizards. Some even pet them, while others were seen clicking pictures. One man even dared to hold one of the iguanas and let the scaly reptile sit on his shoulder.
The owner says the iguanas are harmless despite their scary appearance.
"They look very dangerous, but iguanas are actually very harmless. They wouldn't hurt a baby," he said with one of the iguanas perched on his shoulder.
"It's a vegetarian and eats carrots, pumpkins, spinach and other vegetarians foods," he says, a statement supported by footage of one iguana munching away at cucumber slices.
