Still trying to hold my tegu!

[Harveysherps]

Just keep working with it . It will come around.

 

[Harveysherps]

I use hot rocks myself. I would cover it with cloth to be on the safe side though.Only the dumbest people on the planet have trouble with heat rocks. Pay attention to your Reptiles that have them and everything will be fine. Your doing nothing wrong.

 

[pinto24]

I use hot rocks myself. I would cover it with cloth to be on the safe side though.Only the dumbest people on the planet have trouble with heat rocks. Pay attention to your Reptiles that have them and everything will be fine. Your doing nothing wrong.

Thanks, I do appreciate that. It's nice to hear that basically everything I am doing is not wrong.

 

[burke0000]

Ahhh. This sucks! I know it takes time to get him used to me but its very frustrating when other peoples new tegus are being held right away!!

 

[tegulevi]

theres also the simple fact that not all tegus like to be held. they are still creatures of instinct, they all have their own outlook on things their own likes and dislikes. some of mine will tolerate handling, some of mine will scratch you to death, and one of mine will hang out with you all day. i suggest leaving him alone for a while. just observe him and enjoy him that way. constant handling doesnt make a tegu like you. i rarely handle the male that likes to chill on my arms. but when i do go pick him up he still acts the same. they arent going to forget what handling is, whether it be weekly or monthly.

and watch out for that pvc.

 

[Bubba]

how to tame a tegu

Of course the shirt does the trick. Look my videos on youtube and see how my 4 feet tegu went from aggressive to trustful.

 

[snakehandler]

One of my tegus is still agressive.
But it tend to leave it that way as i am used to handling monitors.