Lovely! All the teeny tiny scales with the spotted pattern gives this a really neat look. ^(._.)^ I'm sure they'll love it!

This is a really cool idea. Nice way to think of your animal companion, and no harm to any living thing for the sake it.

Indeed! I very much enjoy making custom pieces like this. The woman that commissioned this, her tegu is just a baby (when they're babies, they shed like every week and grow like weeds, lol), and she wanted something lasting to wear to remind her of her lizard-baby. It's really awesome to hear stories about people's pets and be the person allowed to create lasting pieces like this.

I just hope their tegu grows up nicer than the one I once knew. He was like a big, angry, black and gold vice grip, and heavy gloves only helped the skin

black and gold...that had to be a columbian tegu, not an argentinian. The columbians don't tend to tame down very well once they're adults. Raised from babies...they can be pretty tame, but never as tame as the argentinians. columbians aren't bred in captivity very well, so they get the whole trauma of being trapped in the wild.

Argentinian black and white tegus make wonderful pets, when raised right. I've got a big boy and he's so tame. He loves people....he's a big fat lazy lump of a lizard most of the time, doesn't care about anyone or anything, except food, heating lamp and burrow, lol.

Maybe you could post something of him, showing off his mellow temperament. The black and gold was 2 feet of contempt and pain :-P Thanks for the background on them. Now I know.