He even liked to eat flowers off our bushes surrounding the lawn.
There came a time when we suddenly realized he was starting to get really big and getting 'sassy' by whipping his tail on anyone of us that might be inconveniencing him.
We searched, in vain, through the Yellow Pages, Google, and everything else we could think of to find an iguana re-location service.
Meanwhile the iguana keeps getting bigger and heavier and starts thinking he is a crocodile. He has even spooked my 38-year-old Amazon parrot who is not afraid of man nor beast, except big nasty looking iguanas.
The problem sorta' solved itself when he escaped into the "wetlands" here in the Florida Panhandle (they were "swamps" before they got their new PC label) and now he contributes to the corruption of our native critters.
I know I did the wrong thing(s), consistently, thru the whole episode, but I just didn't see it coming.
Moral of the story: Never buy (or let your kids buy) a cute little green lizard at the pet store. You will end up with something that looks like a mini-Godzilla.