I don't know how you guys can keep insisting that my monitor is going to dig. She is never going to dig. She has no drive to dig. She is not an 'abused and broken horse', JESUS.
Even when she barely hit a foot long, she would not dig in her enclosure which at the time, and at her size was well within the limits you guys have stated.
My lack of substrate is not wrong. It's useless to put a few feet of dirt in an environment with an animal that isn't going to use it.
I'm sorry my savanna is more tame than yours, but she is not ill or 'sluggish'.
Soaking is a normal behavior. She doesn't do it all day long because she's dehydrated, she just LIKES it once in a while, so I provide her with a dish large enough to lay in. She craps in there because she LIKES to.
She eats from my hand because I have her TRAINED. She comes when she is called, and recognizes several VERY SIMPLE hand commands because I spend LOTS of time caring for her.
But please, keep telling me everything you know about MY monitor, because I'm sure you all know her way better than I do.
