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Sorry about the late response, about taming your tegu... I'm no expert but I can toss out a few ideas. Kinda seems like your trying too hard if that even makes sense lol. Ditch the glove and taking him to the bathroom. Make sure your temps are proper and you have the right ultraviolet requirements 1st off. Just feed him in his cage, throw the food in whether it's a mouse or ground turkey or whatever and just leave him alone. Seems like he might be stressed out so id recommend leaving him alone for a few days. U might be doing more harm than good by taking him out of his cage and taking him to another room and wearing a brightly colored glove to handle him. I'm no professional but these are things I did when mine was acting like a douche and he's fine now.

For food, your going to have to do some work yourself. You have to remember that every tegu is different just like dogs or people. Just because alot of people use ground turkey doesn't mean yours will eat it. He might hate it, you need to try different things until you find something healthy that he will gobble up as soon as u offer it. Then from there you can start looking for other things to give him a little variety. For you, from what you've said about his attitude, I bet he'd love live food like a mouse or rat pup depending on size. I think he'd love a good hunt.

Good luck

<blockquote data-quote="Khoilie" data-source="post: 105929" data-attributes="member: 3084">Sorry about the late response, about taming your tegu... I'm no expert but I can toss out a few ideas. Kinda seems like your trying too hard if that even makes sense lol. Ditch the glove and taking him to the bathroom. Make sure your temps are proper and you have the right ultraviolet requirements 1st off. Just feed him in his cage, throw the food in whether it's a mouse or ground turkey or whatever and just leave him alone. Seems like he might be stressed out so id recommend leaving him alone for a few days. U might be doing more harm than good by taking him out of his cage and taking him to another room and wearing a brightly colored glove to handle him. I'm no professional but these are things I did when mine was acting like a douche and he's fine now.For food, your going to have to do some work yourself. You have to remember that every tegu is different just like dogs or people. Just because alot of people use ground turkey doesn't mean yours will eat it. He might hate it, you need to try different things until you find something healthy that he will gobble up as soon as u offer it. Then from there you can start looking for other things to give him a little variety. For you, from what you've said about his attitude, I bet he'd love live food like a mouse or rat pup depending on size. I think he'd love a good hunt.Good luck</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Khoilie, post: 105929, member: 3084"] Sorry about the late response, about taming your tegu... I'm no expert but I can toss out a few ideas. Kinda seems like your trying too hard if that even makes sense lol. Ditch the glove and taking him to the bathroom. Make sure your temps are proper and you have the right ultraviolet requirements 1st off. Just feed him in his cage, throw the food in whether it's a mouse or ground turkey or whatever and just leave him alone. Seems like he might be stressed out so id recommend leaving him alone for a few days. U might be doing more harm than good by taking him out of his cage and taking him to another room and wearing a brightly colored glove to handle him. I'm no professional but these are things I did when mine was acting like a douche and he's fine now. For food, your going to have to do some work yourself. You have to remember that every tegu is different just like dogs or people. Just because alot of people use ground turkey doesn't mean yours will eat it. He might hate it, you need to try different things until you find something healthy that he will gobble up as soon as u offer it. Then from there you can start looking for other things to give him a little variety. For you, from what you've said about his attitude, I bet he'd love live food like a mouse or rat pup depending on size. I think he'd love a good hunt. Good luck [/QUOTE]

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