I’m pretty sure a tegu is a tegu. Quite common round here, maybe the countryside around here suits them and the other things I come across more. At 1.5metres fair sized beasts, big enough to fear nothing.
I suspect that the way all dogs bark like mad at strangers yet let children climb all over them whilst they try and eat because having things thrown at them is the only training they get

What do they call tegus in Paraguay? Don’t think I’ve seen those.

I think the dogs learn that chasing chickens = getting stones thrown at them.

Or tegus. They also have quite a taste for eggs.
Right about dogs though. They always seem to take far more interest in moving things

I suppose their predators are cats and opossums (comadrejas). Any others?
The loose dogs seem to leave them alone, well except for my own dogs. They’ve hunted a few, in the process giving me angry neighbors.