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RE: food aggression

I've been feeding gary in a rubbermaid tub. He was fine with me taking him out and seeing me in the garage until almost a week ago. I'm feeding him daily, he's been eating the most frequently and the most in general out of the 3. I thought I was feeding him enough, he would inhale food for a good 10 minutes and then stop eating so I'd put him back and he would go bask. I wouldn't mind trying to split up meals but I don't want to be wasting food either. That was third time I had fed him in the enclosure. The other 2 times I had put the food in shortly before the lights were on because I wasn't going to be home during the day.
His cage is stacked on top of my other one so he hasn't really gotten the chance to come out on his own much. He's come out and up my arm a few times and seemed alright but that was also after being fed. I'll see if I can find a way to make it easier for him to get out on his own and see if it helps.
If it is a true hunger thing I don't want him to go hungry. If its more of an increased aggression thing I want to deal with it as quickly as possible.
Would it be bad to use gloves until this gets resolved? The gloves I have are welding gloves and I can't imaging them tasting very great lol. None of them have bitten me, usually I would think it to be more of a bluff but since its a food response I don't think he would hesitate to bite in the excitement.

<blockquote data-quote="Rhetoric" data-source="post: 81335" data-attributes="member: 2215">RE: food aggressionI've been feeding gary in a rubbermaid tub. He was fine with me taking him out and seeing me in the garage until almost a week ago. I'm feeding him daily, he's been eating the most frequently and the most in general out of the 3. I thought I was feeding him enough, he would inhale food for a good 10 minutes and then stop eating so I'd put him back and he would go bask. I wouldn't mind trying to split up meals but I don't want to be wasting food either. That was third time I had fed him in the enclosure. The other 2 times I had put the food in shortly before the lights were on because I wasn't going to be home during the day.His cage is stacked on top of my other one so he hasn't really gotten the chance to come out on his own much. He's come out and up my arm a few times and seemed alright but that was also after being fed. I'll see if I can find a way to make it easier for him to get out on his own and see if it helps. If it is a true hunger thing I don't want him to go hungry. If its more of an increased aggression thing I want to deal with it as quickly as possible.Would it be bad to use gloves until this gets resolved? The gloves I have are welding gloves and I can't imaging them tasting very great lol. None of them have bitten me, usually I would think it to be more of a bluff but since its a food response I don't think he would hesitate to bite in the excitement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rhetoric, post: 81335, member: 2215"] [b]RE: food aggression[/b] I've been feeding gary in a rubbermaid tub. He was fine with me taking him out and seeing me in the garage until almost a week ago. I'm feeding him daily, he's been eating the most frequently and the most in general out of the 3. I thought I was feeding him enough, he would inhale food for a good 10 minutes and then stop eating so I'd put him back and he would go bask. I wouldn't mind trying to split up meals but I don't want to be wasting food either. That was third time I had fed him in the enclosure. The other 2 times I had put the food in shortly before the lights were on because I wasn't going to be home during the day. His cage is stacked on top of my other one so he hasn't really gotten the chance to come out on his own much. He's come out and up my arm a few times and seemed alright but that was also after being fed. I'll see if I can find a way to make it easier for him to get out on his own and see if it helps. If it is a true hunger thing I don't want him to go hungry. If its more of an increased aggression thing I want to deal with it as quickly as possible. Would it be bad to use gloves until this gets resolved? The gloves I have are welding gloves and I can't imaging them tasting very great lol. None of them have bitten me, usually I would think it to be more of a bluff but since its a food response I don't think he would hesitate to bite in the excitement. [/QUOTE]

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