New lunchbreak routine: Feeding all my monitors and restroom breaks
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- This is my new lunchbreak routine with my monitors. For about a week now I've been letting them each come out for a few minutes right when I come home, in case they need to go to the bathroom for easy cleanup. Then I spend the rest of the time feeding them all if it's a feed day or I spend some time working with one of them on something specific. I get a little over 20m at home during a lunchbreak and I tried to leave this as intact as possible to give you an idea of how I manage them.
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This is one of the most impressive things I’ve seen in a while. Glad I found your channel!
Thank you! I appreciate it.
You do some good interaction with them. I've raised alot of reptiles from babies, never a monitor and very intrested in possibly getting a green tree. Glad to see you showing their bowl movements, have not seen any other posters out there taking the time to share that. I notice you don't do much hand time with them, They will greatly appreciate some hand time in offering rubbing and scratching when you are ready. Good stuff, look forward to future posts
Thank you, appreciate the kind words. I was bringing attention to their poo because I had already mentioned in passing several times that once these animals know they can come out whenever they want, they start holding it, since they don't want to soil their home if they don't have to. I finally wanted to include it in a video so people could see what I was talking about.
On handling, I don't. I likely will, in the future with the Ackie, but everything I have built with the tree monitors is based on a respect of their independent nature. I'm working with these guys in a pretty unique way. I don't want to cross that line by all of a sudden, starting to handle them. I've never touched them beyond chin rubs because I don't have to. I'm happy with our relationship and I have more control over them this way. They think everything is their idea and I don't want to shatter that illusion. You might be interested in watching "The ladder: hacking my tree monitors brain" for an idea of what my process is like.
I am soon going to start working on touch with the Ackie though. They may not have an emotional connection to me, but I surely do to them and I would love to have one that I could hold in my hands and pet.
You're the tree monitor whisperer!!!
Lol, Thank you.
@@TreeMonitorTraining whooops wrong account lol!!
@@GoatsWildlife Yeah I clicked on there and realized it was you. Avocado vid tomorrow, you lose some ground with the larger enclosure or are you just click baiting me bro? :P
@@TreeMonitorTraining haha I be forgetting to switch my accounts, but mannn I’ll just say I was disappointed at first but literally as I was editing the video her whole mood shifted. Patience is key for me!
@@GoatsWildlife I'm sure its fine... Avocado is still really young. You wouldn't believe how badly I messed up with Ajax before ever even attempting interaction and he forgave me.
I wonder if snakes do the same thing. My little corn snake prefers to go to the restroom outside her enclosure SPECIFICALLY 4 days after we feed her when we take her out. Like clockwork 95% of the time.
Probably. Most animals won't soil their den if they don't have to. I'm guessing most reptiles don't get let out of their enclosures enough to display this behavior reliably. Since my guys know they can come out whenever they want, they try and hold it.
Your snake is most likely doing the same thing.
@TreeMonitorTraining it's interesting because I also have a boa who comes out even more than she does, of her own accord as well but she never uses the restroom outside her enclosure. It's probably just anecdotal tho but interesting nonetheless.
@@erickperez8770 Yeah it's hard to judge natural behaviors with reptiles by keeping them the way we do. I doubt the boa would take a dump in the wild though, and then bed-down right next to it. It's probably just a timing thing.
I don't know squat about snakes btw, I assume they eat very rarely and have a way slower metabolism than my monitors. My guys all go pretty much daily so it's easier to see what they're doing. I'd imagine it would be harder to spot in a snake.
How big is the ackie cage
That's a 4x2x2 which he's been in too long. I've already ordered his forever enclosure which is a 5x3x4. It'll be a month or so before that's delivered, assembled, and scaped.