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Hand training a Tokay - and he needs it
I've had this tokay for a little over a year now but never got around to working with him until the other day. For a while he was hard to feed, refused just about everything and would eat once or twice a week if I was lucky. Now he's become a feeding machine.
Anyhow, he hopped right onto my gloved hand and then made a beeline towards my head, stopping along the way for a snack. (and yes he drew blood)
After holding on for about 20 minutes he finally let go and when I went to pick him up to put him back in the cage he grabbed some desert
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Re: Hand training a Tokay - and he needs it
Evil little demon you got there!
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Re: Hand training a Tokay - and he needs it
Heh heh,
Gotta love that tokay spirit. 
dr del
Derek
7 adult Royals (2.5), 1.0 COS Pastel, 1.0 Enchi, 1.1 Lesser platty Royal python, 1.1 Black pastel Royal python, 0.1 Blue eyed leucistic ( Super lesser), 0.1 Piebald Royal python, 1.0 Sinaloan milk snake 1.0 crested gecko and 1 bad case of ETS. no wife, no surprise.
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Re: Hand training a Tokay - and he needs it
Oh, that lil guy just loves you to death! lol
Tokays are my favorite looking lizards. They may not always be the sweetest things, but they can skate by on looks alone.
20 minutes?! Good luck to you with this guy!
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Re: Hand training a Tokay - and he needs it
send that little devil off to Kevin McCurley the tokay whisperer!!!
Last edited by dr del; 07-22-2009 at 07:48 PM.
Reason: replacing censored words with italicised alternatives
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Re: Hand training a Tokay - and he needs it
 Originally Posted by waltah!
Oh, that lil guy just loves you to death! lol
Tokays are my favorite looking lizards. They may not always be the sweetest things, but they can skate by on looks alone.
20 minutes?! Good luck to you with this guy!
That picture was from a few days ago, Saturday. He's actually started to calm down a bit now. Had him out yesterday and he only held on for about 15 minutes (to my gloved hand) before letting go. And tonight I didn't take him out but he didn't go ballistic when I was messing around with stuff in his tank. Eventually he'll be as "gentle as a kitten" 
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Re: Hand training a Tokay - and he needs it
I tamed one down once, but it was a 6-8 incher. He couldn't draw blood but man did he bite ALOT It wasn't mine but an animal at my work, so I could only work with it 3 days per week and all I did really was pick him up once, clean his cage, then put him back. It still settled down in a few weeks before we sold it and I think the gaps between handling may have helped him feel more secure. It's kind of like a chameleon where they just come to you when they feel like it. Hang in there for now man, that's gotta hurt
Zack
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Re: Hand training a Tokay - and he needs it
Originally Posted by Tyler_Royality
send that little prick off to Kevin McCurley the tokay whisperer!!!
That's actually where I got him. From the $25 males in Zoo Creatures lol
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Re: Hand training a Tokay - and he needs it
Wow! Vicious...lol. Looks worse than my 5.5 foot BP bite. Good luck with that lil' guy. He is pretty, though.
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