Yeah, I agree. That is a valid concern.
As time goes on and they age, that would be something I would be aware of while hand feeding. If I started to notice that my hand was being mistaken for food, I would then stop.
It depends on the animal. I have Tegus and Monitors I can pet on the face while hand feeding them, and they never look at my hand as food even tho I am hand feeding them. I have a green Iggy, that will hardly eat, unless he is being hand fed.
Then again I have animals I would not hand feed because I have decided that it is to unsafe.
A lot of this stuff comes with time and knowing your animal. The more time you spend with him over the next few years the more you will get to know your, and the animals limits. Even in the same species, it can drastically change from 1 personality type to another.
I have "base line" rules when handling, but most of it is based of what the individual animal shows me, not the species as a whole.
It is why I do not tell people that my way is the only way. I do not want to get people or their animals hurt. I just put my opinions and options out there. I do at times push the limits of handling. But, I never feel that I am going to get my self hurt. Even I have limits.
I always keep my wife's, mine and the animals safety top priority.
You have to when one of these is sleeping down the hall from where you sleep at night. :-D
As time goes on and they age, that would be something I would be aware of while hand feeding. If I started to notice that my hand was being mistaken for food, I would then stop.
It depends on the animal. I have Tegus and Monitors I can pet on the face while hand feeding them, and they never look at my hand as food even tho I am hand feeding them. I have a green Iggy, that will hardly eat, unless he is being hand fed.
Then again I have animals I would not hand feed because I have decided that it is to unsafe.
A lot of this stuff comes with time and knowing your animal. The more time you spend with him over the next few years the more you will get to know your, and the animals limits. Even in the same species, it can drastically change from 1 personality type to another.
I have "base line" rules when handling, but most of it is based of what the individual animal shows me, not the species as a whole.
It is why I do not tell people that my way is the only way. I do not want to get people or their animals hurt. I just put my opinions and options out there. I do at times push the limits of handling. But, I never feel that I am going to get my self hurt. Even I have limits.
I always keep my wife's, mine and the animals safety top priority.
You have to when one of these is sleeping down the hall from where you sleep at night. :-D
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