chewing on his own tail?

[Guest]

My guy likes to chew on his tail?? for like 5 min straight! what gives?

 

[Guest]

Bump

 

[Guest]

Maybe its the same reason a dog licks his self ........ Because he can ...

 

[Guest]

Haha its just so weird.. he sat the chasing his tail then when he caught the base of it he chewed on it for about 7 minutes. Now he's got dents in his tail. I thought only dogs were dumb enough to chase their tail.

 

[Toby_H]

I've never heard of a Tegu chasing nor chewing on it's own tail...

Dogs lick themselves for cleanliness and chase their tail to play... neither of these explainations would make sense with a Tegu...

I suspect your Tegu has a problem, though I have no clue what it is. Compare your care to care sheets to see if something is off (humidity, substrate type, etc)

 

[Jefroka]

First time I've heard of this as well. Does seem like something is amiss, perhaps nutritionally.


...Jefroka

 

[Guest]

All of his cbc and chem was perfect and his rads were great. I did that today at work on my break.