bmx3000max
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just a tought ...i finally handeld my tegu after a week and when do you guys know when youve lost your tegus trust or gained it?
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Dana C
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After a week, you most likely don't have the complete trust of your tegu.
It will grow however and things will happen along the way that will impair it.
Awkward handling, too warm a bath, startling your baby all can create little set backs. Even later as he/she approaches one year of age, things happen.
The good news is that usually they "forgive and forget" fairly quickly. I have had it happen as have most Tegu owners. With Capt'n Jack, he usually gets a little stand offish for a day buy by day two, he either doesn't care or forgets. I still take him to the bathroom to eat and just leave him alone but sit with him on the floor. On day two, he usually comes up to my hand and tastes it and rubs his face against the side of my hand telling me, "Dear John, all is forgiven. Please come home"....a WWII phrase.
Having a Tegu peeved at you is not the end of the world and will pass. We tend to think of them like we do dogs, and the phrase, "Dog Tame", is grossly incorrect. When all is said and done, they are sill reptiles. They can like and seek attention but to expect the dependency, affection and mutual devotion that exists between dogs and other mammals and man really doesn't exist.
You can tell that while I name my lizards and am fascinated by their observable behaviors and interaction with me, I don't anthropomorphize, (to attribute human form or personality to things not human), to them.
When questioned, my lizards were quoted as saying, "Dana, provides security, food, water and a warm place to lie on occasionally. We don't love him but will keep him around as needed".
It will grow however and things will happen along the way that will impair it.
Awkward handling, too warm a bath, startling your baby all can create little set backs. Even later as he/she approaches one year of age, things happen.
The good news is that usually they "forgive and forget" fairly quickly. I have had it happen as have most Tegu owners. With Capt'n Jack, he usually gets a little stand offish for a day buy by day two, he either doesn't care or forgets. I still take him to the bathroom to eat and just leave him alone but sit with him on the floor. On day two, he usually comes up to my hand and tastes it and rubs his face against the side of my hand telling me, "Dear John, all is forgiven. Please come home"....a WWII phrase.
Having a Tegu peeved at you is not the end of the world and will pass. We tend to think of them like we do dogs, and the phrase, "Dog Tame", is grossly incorrect. When all is said and done, they are sill reptiles. They can like and seek attention but to expect the dependency, affection and mutual devotion that exists between dogs and other mammals and man really doesn't exist.
You can tell that while I name my lizards and am fascinated by their observable behaviors and interaction with me, I don't anthropomorphize, (to attribute human form or personality to things not human), to them.
When questioned, my lizards were quoted as saying, "Dana, provides security, food, water and a warm place to lie on occasionally. We don't love him but will keep him around as needed".
