reptile target training

[ArmyGuardTegu]

Ok so the other day i was watching a show on monitors and saw something new for me. zoo keepers and other reptile owners were using target training for feeding and other things and it seemed that the animals were incredibly responseful to the technique. has anyone here tried this?

 

[Scales89]

A friend of mine who bred Svannahs uses it with them an they are very responsive to the target training, there are a few videos on YouTube with tegus as well.

 

[chr0nus]

were doing it with our indigo where i work. the scientific and zoo keeping community are finally realizing reptiles arent as dumb as we thought.

 

[dragonmetalhead]

were doing it with our indigo where i work. the scientific and zoo keeping community are finally realizing reptiles arent as dumb as we thought.

Seriously. Kodo is definitely smarter than any house cat I've met and I'm debating if he's smarter than my dachsunds. He's one of the most intelligent animals of any species I've ever encountered.

 

[ArmyGuardTegu]

So how does one start the training? Do u just pick an object like a ball and do it or do u work into it more descreatly? I plan on owning another tegu in the near future and would like to target train because it seems to limit the food response where my previous tegus had very strong responses to food.