Jay_mangum112
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Hello, everyone this is my first time posting here so sorry if I put this question in the wrong area, but I would like some feedback or input. So, I got my Tegu in November last year, from about a week after I got him I stopped feeding him in his inclosure and feed him on my lap, then moving him to the floor right out side his inclosure, and I kept doing that until he got to a pretty decent size, about a foot and a half or bigger. Then I started bring him into our kitchen and feeding him there, then I let him roam around with my supervision. So, he's about 2.5 maybe 3 feet including tail and a pretty big boy now as seen in the picture
, but heres the problem so I know when lizard gets to about 6-8 months old and depending on their size you usually want to start cutting back on how many times they eat each week. So, I've been trying to increase his meals size and decrease the amount of days he's fed but, I've got him on a pretty routine schedule for when I let him out. I take him to the bathroom, In our bathroom, then up the hall to eat, then I let him free roam but, on his off food days when I let him free roam right after letting him out the bath room he goes straight to the kitchen and starts looking for me to feed him. He will literally follow me like a dog around the kitchen looking up at me like "where's the food?" And If I make any motion like I'm bending down to put his food bowl on the ground he comes running. He never bites at me though he's gotten to the point where if he doesn't see anything in my hand he usually will turn away and start searching again but If he finds my niece's stuffed animals he goes ballistic shaking them around and pressing them into the ground like he's killing them and he won't let go, the only way I can get them from him is placing my jacket over him then it he usually let's go, but I'm not sure if this is hunger related or he's just him playing becuase he also loves to drag our rugs around and sometimes rolled up socks. He's super sweet to me and when he's not in the kitchen he usually doesn't for the most part show this behavior, but my house is pretty small and I don't want to keep him from being able to walk around but in the hallway and bathroom. So, if anyone has some suggestion please let me know, and also do you think he's at the size I should start cutting his feedings back, he's at least 10 months old now so I thought it was about time for me to cut him back to being feed every other day and he's a pretty hefty size as well, so if you have any suggestions please let me know and thank your for any help.