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My baby has spent three days at the vets with an impaction from bark chippings the vet managed to remove them with enemas and worked really hard to save him but post mortem showed abrasions down his vent which has caused peritonitus. Please if anyone is using Bark or substrates please change to...
We have had our Tegu over two months now and it still wont come near me, I am very patient with it and dont go grabbing it and picking it up I just let it wonder around at its own pace. I lie on the floor sometimes when it is out or sit reading a book on the floor but it still wont come near...
We have had our Tegu 2 months now and it is still wary of us, I spend days just sat watching as it walks about the floor and sometimes lie on the floor but it still wont come near me, I am being patient and hopefully one day it will decide I am not going to hurt it.
My Tegu is buried all day and only comes out at night, he is there in the morning and within ten minutes after feeding disappears back under the substrate. I am worried that we never get interaction as he is never about in the day and I dont want to disturb him when he is buried. Is this normal?
Some progress, I have opened his viv and he came out to explore, I put his food in a dish away from the viv and he ate his dinner. He went off hiding when anyone else came into the room. I always whistle to him whenever I go into his viv so after an hour hiding I whistled and hey presto he...
I have had some progress today, everytime I have been going into his tank I whistle to him and say his name. Well today I left his tank open and he came out but went off hiding when other people came in so I whistled and said his name and he came out of hiding.
I will keep you posted, it is argentinian (has the two scales from nose to eyes). It is much better when its just me about but when the whole family is on the go its worse. I have managed to stroke it with the glove on now but it still hisses at that but it doesnt run away now when I open the...
I keep reading you should feed your tegu outside the enclosure but how can i do this when it is not tame and still skittish, I dont want to go picking it up yet when its still scared of me does anyone have any tips on how to achieve this.
we have had our tegu now for six weeks and I have not picked it up just keep doing stuff in his tank so he gets used to me, I also put a glove in so he gets used to it for the day i may be able to pick it up. He still hisses at me if I go too close to him, will this ever change he is so...