Do you all find that hunger behavior is associated with handling bites? Not food mistakes, but out of the cage normal handling unprovoked striking? I have always "hook" trained him even though up until now he's never actually shown any sort of food response when I open the cage I still boop gently with a paper towel tube before handling – this worked last week and the other day when he actually was acting hungry and I took him out anyway. So I guess I have a 100% success rate so far but with only two trials I'm not exactly ready to publish. So far Irwin has been the tamest and most passive pet I've ever had, reptilian or otherwise – but as I mentioned, it has been just over half a year so there may be aspects of his "personality" that I have not experienced yet.
Reply With Quote