I cannot figure out why my Tegu is suddenly trying to bite my partner.
He turned 2 in July and for the past couple months he's been making occasional attempts to bite my partner (the first couple times he actually did bite, but now we're on watch).
The weird thing is, he's not making moves to bite an iguana that's about half his size, but with whom he seems to get along (although they are always closely supervised when they are out together), and he's never made a move to bite me (even though I do all the feeding). He's actually never made a move to bite anyone but my partner, and only recently for her.
He doesn't seem to be afraid (he's pursuing her in these instances).
At first we thought he was just testing his boundaries, but it's happened so often we don't know what to think now, and obviously we're concerned about when he gets huge. Anyone have any experience with anything like that?
He turned 2 in July and for the past couple months he's been making occasional attempts to bite my partner (the first couple times he actually did bite, but now we're on watch).
The weird thing is, he's not making moves to bite an iguana that's about half his size, but with whom he seems to get along (although they are always closely supervised when they are out together), and he's never made a move to bite me (even though I do all the feeding). He's actually never made a move to bite anyone but my partner, and only recently for her.
He doesn't seem to be afraid (he's pursuing her in these instances).
At first we thought he was just testing his boundaries, but it's happened so often we don't know what to think now, and obviously we're concerned about when he gets huge. Anyone have any experience with anything like that?
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