i'm totally adding this after i made this video but i was just thinking you know there's this
train of thought with some keepers that believe that they should leave their animals alone you
know set up your animal leave it alone don't bother it and let it kind of come to you imagine
what kind of child i would have if i never taught her anything it is very important to teach your
animals and the animals are capable of learning and changing but if you don't try to teach them
then they never will change and this is a perfect example here we have aphrodite who is totally
sweet calm handleable but when she was a baby she was nasty and striking all the time and it took
quite a bit of work to kind of get her to calm down and become this sweet but if i would have
just set her up in an enclosure let her do her own thing and not have kind of pushed
the boundaries i would have never ended up with an animal like this but if an animal is scared
if you don't teach it to not be scared of you it's going to stay that way do you have any
animals that were like aphrodite that were kind of scared of you or strikey and now they're sweet and
nice let me know in the comments below about your experience with it and if you agree you
disagree or your thoughts you know the more we share the more we learn say hello to my first
ever lizard aladdin he's a leopard gecko that was found wandering the streets of brampton
he was a rescue he's what kind of started my my little love for lizards he's a sweetheart
he's always been that way but sometimes you get animals well leopard geckos are pretty easy to
care for in general and their personalities are usually not really that scared of anything but
i just got some new lizards that aren't really as chill as aladdin over here so they're gonna take a
little bit more work to get them to kind of get to this level different animals and different species
might never get as chill as this every different species kind of have different personalities and
some are more chill creatures and some are a little bit more like 80d they're like going
crazy everywhere so i just figured i'd show you a video how to kind of start taming your lizards and
once they're aladdin's age if they have kind of a crazy personality and they're not calm or they're
wild it's gonna be a lot more work so the most important thing to do to tame your lizards is to
start at a young age start from the moment they're babies hand feeding them the only problem with
hand feeding is that later on they might not want to eat if you don't hand feed them to start off
offering babies food is good without hand feeding them get them eating and everything and then give
them treats yourself kind of by hand and take some time to handle them i'm going to take you
and show you what i'm talking about and hopefully that will help you to tame your lizards
so now you're seeing my uh green keeled belly lizards or gastropristiana i don't say it
properly but here we are their babies these animals are known to be skittish and animals
that in general are more viewing animals than holding animals and i've heard this with lots of
different animals like green tree pythons for instance but the thing is that any
animal to me could be handleable and tame if you do this from the time it's a baby
and you don't want to harass the animal you just want to get it comfortable and used to you
so you never want to grab the animal and squeeze it or force it to kind of be with you you want to
kind of just have them crawl on you play with them handle them touch their face and uh slowly build
this kind of comfortability where it's like you're kind of fun you're kind of like exercise and yes
at first they might not really like you touching their face but after a while they get used to it
and then they can even start to like it so it's really important to kind of slowly push your
boundaries you're not really forcing it on them but you're gently just pushing your boundaries
getting them used to something that in general normally maybe they wouldn't like but teaching
them to kind of have that taste for you know human feel okay this is my friend he comes and he takes
me out of my home and i get to walk around explore and he gives me a nice little massage or whatever
this is all you have to do and you can do it with just about any animal you just have to start off
when they're young go easy on them and don't don't force it like don't grab them make sure that it's
them crawling around and them kind of letting you touch them and they might pull away a bit
they might run away a bit but you just consistent and not too much either like no more than let's
say like 15 minutes a day when they're babies you don't want to be you know scaring them for too
long but you take them out for like 15 minutes feed them a little bit hold them a little bit
just push your boundaries and eventually they'll start to like you and this is the
same with lizards with snakes with any animal so it's it's so much better to start off with
babies because it gives you this opportunity when you have an adult or an older lizard that
doesn't want to be handled you're going to have a lot of a harder time than if you start off with
babies anyways i hope this was able to help you and maybe you learned a little bit to something
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