DENVER (KDVR) — A pet iguana is back home after escaping through a window in a Glendale neighborhood, and was missing for more than half a day.
Iguana owners Cheyenne Drake and Joseph Cervantes took to social media on Monday night after their 15-year-old, 4.5-foot-long pet iguana Cheech went missing. The couple went to dinner around 6:30 p.m., and returned about two hours later to the window screen of their lizard’s room popped out.
“She was gone. The window was open, she had somehow shimmied her way out,” said Drake. She’s cold-blooded so she can’t keep herself warm. She’s always under a heat lamp so we were really afraid that she was going to freeze and especially not make it through the night.”
Cervantes got Cheech around 2010 when she was the size of his palm.
“I got her in a brown paper lunch bag as a baby at a reptile shop,” said Cervantes. “She’s really tame. She’s really docile, she’s a roamer. I don’t really have her in a cage, she has her own room and stuff. She can move as she pleases.”