Had the same experience with my wife, at first she wasn’t sure, but I made slow movements and kept offering her food over the course of a few months, now she tolerates my presence.
I used to have a bearded dragon that would hiss at me and show her beard off to me every time I came near her cage for about 2 months or so it took me another 2 months for her to get used to me and figure out that I was not a threat to her
I would handle my dragon at the store everytime i had a break. From the 1st time i held him he just lay in my hand and enjoyed the heat. Fell asleep. The manager told me he liked me and that if i waited a couple weeks she'd give him to me for free. So i waited and kept handling him. Eventually bought a habitat for him and brought him home. At first he would run from me cus of the different enviornment. But after 4 days (he lives in my tiny room next to my bed) he got used to me and would run over to me to watch me. He often runs over to the door to show me he wants my attention. Your vids r very helpful! I have been watching your bearded dragon vids so i can make the perfect setup for him. I want my dragon to live a long healthy life.
Unfortunately, I have a top opening tank with a leopard gecko. So, I'm not gonna hold the bugs, and she likes the tongs more than me or my hand. It's a battle. I'm switching to another top opening tank, this time with a latch
Update: She likes me now after I got her lighting schedule fixed and fed her less frequently as she finished growing. At least a few times, she's asked to be hugged by my fingers or crawled all over without being picked up first
I got a bearded dragon a few days ago, he hasn't been eating, and he has a little black on his beard... but I think it's just his colors?.. I don't know. But he always has his mouth open... Is that what they always do? It seems normal. Anyone have any advice!! I would love to hear it!!!
I tried this with my last bearded dragon. For years. I had to force him to cuddle me in order for him to realize I was not a threat. I feel bad about it but he got to live the test if his life stress free after that point
I’ve always wanted to have a lizard, I’m not ready for one yet but when I get enough money and time I might think about getting a tegu or iguana, I want a big guy I can chill and eat bananas with while watching tv. I’d have an entire room in my house dedicated to that lizard 😤❤️
I remember there was this lizard at my local pet store that I used to visit all the time when I was around town, and she hated everyone. Even the staff that fed her every day said that about her. They were never really able to see her for long or hold her before she’d run and hide. Well one day I came by to look around and visit my favorite lizard, and once I started talking to her, she ran to the glass in her terrarium and started staring at me. The workers at the pet store asked if I wanted to try to hold her, so I did, and they were shocked when she immediately crawled up my arm and got on my shoulder. It’s little things like this that make me love lizards.
Correction, Lizards don't hate you, they're just afraid. They don't carry malice like people do, and once you realize that you can build their trust, it doesn't seem so daunting.
I tame the whiptails by holding them in my shirt for hours at a time after they get used to their cage for a few days to a week. Then it takes about 2 to 3 weeks of that before they don't just jump off you and try to run away so until then you have them in places that allow them to run but not places you can't get to. The younger a lizard the faster (in general) ( but you have specie and personality differences to deal with that can make it harder or easier to tame) they are to tame. Like I had an Rainbow Ameva that was probably 5 years old. Beautiful coloring but wouldn't tame down because he wouldn't let me hold him ever, was always a spaz and he bit real hard. Like a whiptail but 10 times bigger. Best ones I have had for taming are desert collard, leopard geckos, bearded dragons.
Fun fact: [almost] all animals like petting. It seems to be hard wired into them, petting releases dopamine and endorphin. It also does that in humans but we usually don't pet each other. It's a thing that happens hardly ever in nature, so when animals get to experience it, it's pure bliss for them. Even sharks like petting and remember distinct humans.
These tricks helped me get my mantis to trust me. When I first got her she did her threat pose the second I got my hand close to her, but after a few weeks of interacting and feeding her she would rather climb onto my hand than the sticks of her terrarium
I did the same with mine. When I first got mine as a nymph, I let her decompress for a day or two and then handled them every single day, letting her come to me and hand feeding her until she grew too big to do that safely. They climb all over me and even come to me when given the option of their enclosure or me. It's a wonderful work of progress and trust.
I oddly never had issues with my water dragon. I remember bringing her home as a juvenile around a decade ago. I’ve always handled her. She needs plenty of space to roam, so she’s always free roamed in my bedroom. I feel handling her plenty as a juvenile made a difference.
Just need patience my Leopard gecko needed like 5 months so he could get used to my presence and i was annoying with him everyday reminding him i was its feeder and making particular sounds
Hey quick question, sorry if you’ve said this before but what cafe do you use for you adult bearded dragon? I need to up the size of my current one and I would like something that opens from the front like that
If you have other lizards interact with them in front of the other. They are intelligent and will learn from sight that you are not going to eat them. Use a lizard that is already calm and loves being around you. It will help.
If you have aided or your autistic obviously all you have to do is pick it up here at lots of hugs and kisses they will get annoyed I will not deny that but eventually you will come to understand that you love it
yea same as rats realy... let them snif you, let them bite you, let them climb you. Thats when they learn what you are and that you are harmless to them. With food its even faster. They notice that you feed them so you have to be a nice thing.
I just pick em up and say you can come to like me and enjoy the heat or continue to hate me I don't care. Best thing is to handle them from a young age.
My beardie loved me since we met he never ran into his hide lol it was good he was a little scared on the first day because he had moved but after that he was just a chill friend
Would this work with my leopard gecko? My husband had a gecko before I met him and once I got him I put him in a bioactive and much larger enclosure. Now he only stays in his hide and acts scared. It’s been months since we switched him. He does like to bask under the light though. Should I take him to the vet?
Does he still eat? If he eats and everything then that’s totally fine. In bioactive they feel pretty happy and will pretty much hide lots as they do in the wild
They do not have the capacity to form emotional bonds. It's merely the simple recognition that certain visual patterns (you and your hand) are not threatening.
I've had a few different geckos and still have one leopard gecko but sold off the others. I did have some that would come to you to be let out of their cage but they don't bond to you like a cat or dog can. I now have a parakeet and he is extremely social and definitely wants to spend a lot of time interacting with me.
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse you can give them a bowl of bird seed mix from what I understand. Which is probably mostly Millet which is a nutritious grain. Quinoa, amaranth, and chia are much higher in nutrition but they are also high in toxic lectins.
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse lol yeah if you don’t care about getting bitten that’s a really good way i used to catch wild lizards and tame them when I was a kid and the best way I find to fame them is to just grab them up take there bites and let them realize your not gonna eat them then just put them back in there cage but your idea is way less stressful for the lizard but does take more time
They won't love you but you can still love them. Unconditional love. Only not snakes, they're creepy, and you have to feed them smart social mammals(Mice/Rats), which make much better pets, which would see you as their friend and love you. It would be too cruel.
What about a beardie that actually attacks you? He'll eat from my hand at times but majority of the time he actively tries to tear off my hand. He's launched himself at me, once I had to catch him because he actually leapt out of the cage. (He was a rescue btw, previous owners had him as a baby and he suddenly stopped eating and moving for the most part, he's getting better on that front tho)
In those special circumstances when they may have came from a place that’s cause them to be this aggressive it takes much more patience and sometimes just tong feeding or bowl feeding at first
Perfect advice. My Gila monster lizard will love to taste me 🦎
Oh no
Hahahaha
Oh boy🤣🤣
Welp have a fun what 8 hours I think
Pause
Had the same experience with my wife, at first she wasn’t sure, but I made slow movements and kept offering her food over the course of a few months, now she tolerates my presence.
that's exactly how to catch a wild female
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣 awesome 👍
😂😂😂
She never minded my presence
Dude, I brought my uro some dandelion flowers yesterday and she finally ran on my hand to eat. She is almost one years old.
That’s what I’m talking about! They love dandelions!
Instructions unclear- Savannah monitor tried to eat my thumb when I offered a quail egg 😂
Beautiful blue Uromastyx you have!
Thank you!
Had the same experience once they know you wont harm them they just want to cuddle😂
Haha they do love our body heat as well!
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse yes i know its mostly because of this but they still wont leave once they are on my hand 😂 its allways so cute
So basically lizards are cats lol
Ha true
Snake cat hybrid
I used to have a bearded dragon that would hiss at me and show her beard off to me every time I came near her cage for about 2 months or so it took me another 2 months for her to get used to me and figure out that I was not a threat to her
I had a similar experience with a dragon I rescued as well. Feels great when they start trusting you
Yesterday I opened the terrarium and my crested gecko came out and jumped on my hand
omg... when the little guy held your hand... 😢
My lizard would probably be like "Ew, lettace? Seriously? Give me a cricket or something!"
Haha true these guys really like vegetables thouhh
Uses two of the chillest lizards on the planet as examples, lmao
I would handle my dragon at the store everytime i had a break. From the 1st time i held him he just lay in my hand and enjoyed the heat. Fell asleep. The manager told me he liked me and that if i waited a couple weeks she'd give him to me for free. So i waited and kept handling him. Eventually bought a habitat for him and brought him home. At first he would run from me cus of the different enviornment. But after 4 days (he lives in my tiny room next to my bed) he got used to me and would run over to me to watch me. He often runs over to the door to show me he wants my attention. Your vids r very helpful! I have been watching your bearded dragon vids so i can make the perfect setup for him. I want my dragon to live a long healthy life.
Even though you are refering to a bearded dragon, i liked to think that it was an actual dragon. But cute story anyways
Unfortunately, I have a top opening tank with a leopard gecko. So, I'm not gonna hold the bugs, and she likes the tongs more than me or my hand. It's a battle. I'm switching to another top opening tank, this time with a latch
Top opening tanks do make it’s super hard
Update: She likes me now after I got her lighting schedule fixed and fed her less frequently as she finished growing. At least a few times, she's asked to be hugged by my fingers or crawled all over without being picked up first
I got a bearded dragon a few days ago, he hasn't been eating, and he has a little black on his beard... but I think it's just his colors?.. I don't know. But he always has his mouth open... Is that what they always do? It seems normal. Anyone have any advice!! I would love to hear it!!!
I tried this with my last bearded dragon. For years. I had to force him to cuddle me in order for him to realize I was not a threat. I feel bad about it but he got to live the test if his life stress free after that point
Some dragons just like boundaries
I’ve always wanted to have a lizard, I’m not ready for one yet but when I get enough money and time I might think about getting a tegu or iguana, I want a big guy I can chill and eat bananas with while watching tv.
I’d have an entire room in my house dedicated to that lizard 😤❤️
Wish you luck. It was difficult starting out.
my turtle runs from me when i come in the room
Haha that’s how these guys were
Hand feeding requires good reflexes... ouch 🤕😅
Is 120 gallons too big for a baby beardy since they will keep growing anyways and I don’t have to switch cases?
Nope you can start in that right away just make sure temps are correct
I remember there was this lizard at my local pet store that I used to visit all the time when I was around town, and she hated everyone. Even the staff that fed her every day said that about her. They were never really able to see her for long or hold her before she’d run and hide. Well one day I came by to look around and visit my favorite lizard, and once I started talking to her, she ran to the glass in her terrarium and started staring at me. The workers at the pet store asked if I wanted to try to hold her, so I did, and they were shocked when she immediately crawled up my arm and got on my shoulder. It’s little things like this that make me love lizards.
As someone who's childhood nickname was Lizard? Accurate lol
Haha love it
Snacks and belly rubs can tame even the most standoffish of Lizards... 😁
Thx my man struggling with my new gecko to love me😢😢😢
It does take time but doing this and just being patient he will soon run to you like his papa
Correction, Lizards don't hate you, they're just afraid. They don't carry malice like people do, and once you realize that you can build their trust, it doesn't seem so daunting.
I'd be afraid of someone 100 times my size too, even if they were dangling $100 bills.
@@jamezkpal2361 Exactly
It worked for me.
I'm married now.
I still dont have a lizard though.
Someday...
Giant monkey overlord is actually friendly giant butler/chef.
what do you do if the lizard thinks everything that moves is food
My bearded dragon first started running too me when it was about 3 months old, shes 8 months now
Simple answer to this question just bribe the reptile with food with plenty of positive reinforcement 😂
Slowly working on a baby veiled chameleon. He's about 5 months and I haven't held him yet. He loves his enclosure tho❤
I will earn my uros affection if it kills me 🥺🥺😔✨✨
That’s the way!
So, like all other wild animals? Admittedly the bonding process takes a lot longer with reptiles.
I tame the whiptails by holding them in my shirt for hours at a time after they get used to their cage for a few days to a week. Then it takes about 2 to 3 weeks of that before they don't just jump off you and try to run away so until then you have them in places that allow them to run but not places you can't get to. The younger a lizard the faster (in general) ( but you have specie and personality differences to deal with that can make it harder or easier to tame) they are to tame. Like I had an Rainbow Ameva that was probably 5 years old. Beautiful coloring but wouldn't tame down because he wouldn't let me hold him ever, was always a spaz and he bit real hard. Like a whiptail but 10 times bigger. Best ones I have had for taming are desert collard, leopard geckos, bearded dragons.
Fun fact: [almost] all animals like petting. It seems to be hard wired into them, petting releases dopamine and endorphin. It also does that in humans but we usually don't pet each other. It's a thing that happens hardly ever in nature, so when animals get to experience it, it's pure bliss for them. Even sharks like petting and remember distinct humans.
These tricks helped me get my mantis to trust me. When I first got her she did her threat pose the second I got my hand close to her, but after a few weeks of interacting and feeding her she would rather climb onto my hand than the sticks of her terrarium
I did the same with mine. When I first got mine as a nymph, I let her decompress for a day or two and then handled them every single day, letting her come to me and hand feeding her until she grew too big to do that safely. They climb all over me and even come to me when given the option of their enclosure or me. It's a wonderful work of progress and trust.
This is how you tame animals.... Humans have been doing this for thousands upon thousands of years. Its not magic. Its an exchange of trust.
@@eftheusempire Beautifully put.
I oddly never had issues with my water dragon. I remember bringing her home as a juvenile around a decade ago. I’ve always handled her. She needs plenty of space to roam, so she’s always free roamed in my bedroom. I feel handling her plenty as a juvenile made a difference.
Just need patience my Leopard gecko needed like 5 months so he could get used to my presence and i was annoying with him everyday reminding him i was its feeder and making particular sounds
Hey quick question, sorry if you’ve said this before but what cafe do you use for you adult bearded dragon? I need to up the size of my current one and I would like something that opens from the front like that
If you have other lizards interact with them in front of the other. They are intelligent and will learn from sight that you are not going to eat them. Use a lizard that is already calm and loves being around you. It will help.
If you have aided or your autistic obviously all you have to do is pick it up here at lots of hugs and kisses they will get annoyed I will not deny that but eventually you will come to understand that you love it
yea same as rats realy... let them snif you, let them bite you, let them climb you. Thats when they learn what you are and that you are harmless to them. With food its even faster. They notice that you feed them so you have to be a nice thing.
i tried this approached and my gecko just thinks i’m gonna feed her so she bites me 😂
I just hold the lizard in my hand and force him to sit for an hour or two. That ussually does the trick in a single day
This doesn’t work with my green anole for some reason
Pls dont use these techniques with an aggressive adult tegu
I just pick em up and say you can come to like me and enjoy the heat or continue to hate me I don't care. Best thing is to handle them from a young age.
When I walk in my room my gecko runs walks of his cadge to see me, when I open the door he runs out to sit on my shoulder
The Uromastyx Ive handled are all extremely cuddly~ they're like puppy dogs
Some definitely are!
My lizard just ignores me.
My beardie loved me since we met he never ran into his hide lol it was good he was a little scared on the first day because he had moved but after that he was just a chill friend
What species of lizard was that at the end? He/she looks cool!
Instructions unclear, i am the food
Bribery. Lots and lots of Bribery.
Can you give them a belly rub ? They are so damn adorable
What type of lizard is eating the big leaf?
I had an iguana that was super chill. I didn't have to do anything for her to be like that. I used to walk around with her on my head lol
Interesting and cool vid.
What about for a Green Day gecko
Beautiful Uromastyx, would love one for my reptile collection just don’t have the space currently.
I’m in the same spot now myself. Want so much more just no space
So how to do this with ball python?
how do you got many views and likes on shorts without hastag ? thats im curious about
Hashtags don’t matter it’s much more complicated I do teach UA-cam courses if you are interested shoot me a dm on insta.
Instructions unclear, my Asian water monitor now likes the taste of my hand.
🤣
Would this work with my leopard gecko?
My husband had a gecko before I met him and once I got him I put him in a bioactive and much larger enclosure. Now he only stays in his hide and acts scared. It’s been months since we switched him. He does like to bask under the light though.
Should I take him to the vet?
Does he still eat? If he eats and everything then that’s totally fine. In bioactive they feel pretty happy and will pretty much hide lots as they do in the wild
I just cuddled mine a few times and he was happy
Nice
!!!! I’ve never seen another person with an ornate uro before, I’m so happy. Tiny dino tiny dino
They are my favorites
Aww that Uromastyx is beautiful!!!
Thank you
I have a bearded dragon in my room and most of the time I'm in my room. As far as I know, she’s use to me.
Her name is Peaches.
Great name
good to know ^^
Do you take in reptiles that need homes is that why you know or they’re just skiddish
I’ve just had reptiles for a long time
I miss catching fence swifts . They would always run up my arm and never want to leave.
Hell yeah!
Do they really bond with you ? Genuinely curious. Or is it strictly taming, ability to handle, they come to you for food?
They do not have the capacity to form emotional bonds. It's merely the simple recognition that certain visual patterns (you and your hand) are not threatening.
I've had a few different geckos and still have one leopard gecko but sold off the others. I did have some that would come to you to be let out of their cage but they don't bond to you like a cat or dog can. I now have a parakeet and he is extremely social and definitely wants to spend a lot of time interacting with me.
Cute
What type of lizard is the one with the yellow spots on its back?
Uromastyx
Mine stays on me since it’s a baby. It lives on my shoulder
That’s awesome!
lol
What type of lizards are these? Thank you
Ornate uromastyx
Dam thats dope af!
What about for a very unsure uromastyx
Like always questioning what I do
Have to be very slow and offer treats treats they absolutely love. Over time they will love you
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse ok thanks you think like strawberries or other fruits will work or what do you use
Is that cute lizard with the round face and spiky tail a young uromastyx?
It is!
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse you can give them a bowl of bird seed mix from what I understand. Which is probably mostly Millet which is a nutritious grain. Quinoa, amaranth, and chia are much higher in nutrition but they are also high in toxic lectins.
Thats fantastic for a wild uromastic.
Thank yiu
is this method work against crestie?
paprika bites me to kill me always makes my finger bleed...
Oof. Yes will work with all reptiles not snakes though but most reptiles
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse thank you for the reply Imma go try it out until he becomes okay with my fingers you have a good day now!
Just get a bearded dragon, they can never hate anyone
True they are very chill
What is the first lizard? I want one!
Ornate uromastyx
These COLORS tho omg 😍😍😍
They are wild colors
What lizard is that 1st one, the rounder bellied flatter faced one?? It’s so cool 😊
Uromastyx
Or bearded dragon
I love your uromastyx colors
Thank you
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
I got a bearded dragon
🎉 congratulations
Ex-girlfriend couldn't understand how her bearded dragon loved me. I told her, and she didn't understand.
What a pretty animal
Thank you
Those lizards have a lot of character.
The way the lil lizard licked your finger and then ran away was so cute.
Omg so cute 😱😂
He is adorable
As they say, Happy lizard. Happy life
I just grab em up that’s the fastest way
Haha you can do that as well
@@ChiefSweetsUniverse lol yeah if you don’t care about getting bitten that’s a really good way i used to catch wild lizards and tame them when I was a kid and the best way I find to fame them is to just grab them up take there bites and let them realize your not gonna eat them then just put them back in there cage but your idea is way less stressful for the lizard but does take more time
It has no feelings. It doesn't like you.
What was that last lizard? I love all my scale babies they're so freaking cool n loveable! Get urself a reptile u won't regret it!!
They won't love you but you can still love them. Unconditional love. Only not snakes, they're creepy, and you have to feed them smart social mammals(Mice/Rats), which make much better pets, which would see you as their friend and love you. It would be too cruel.
That's what I did with my rescue rabbits, I still get attacked by my one sometimes (not hard just a scratch here and there)
Understandable it took me two years to get this far with the lizard in the video
What about a beardie that actually attacks you?
He'll eat from my hand at times but majority of the time he actively tries to tear off my hand.
He's launched himself at me, once I had to catch him because he actually leapt out of the cage.
(He was a rescue btw, previous owners had him as a baby and he suddenly stopped eating and moving for the most part, he's getting better on that front tho)
In those special circumstances when they may have came from a place that’s cause them to be this aggressive it takes much more patience and sometimes just tong feeding or bowl feeding at first