"No, you misunderstand, I meant the monitors learn that we are no threat (to a large extent), though I agree they can suddenly become defensive if anything spooks them (so can dogs)."

No misunderstanding whatsoever. I fully understood what you were getting at and, as I've said, I've seen tractable crocodiles and alligators as well as tractable monitors. When I said I wouldn't trust my lace monitors as I could get them to bite me if I did X,Y and Z, I wasn't referring to a defensive bite as that would be incredibly difficult to get from my adult lacies. I meant a feeding bite. With dogs I've had I could smear my fingers with meat and stick my hand into their mouths and they'd still refuse to bite, whereas if I tried that with my 'tamest' lace monitor I'd soon be known as 'leftie'.

"But would you lay on the couch with a croc on your chest, feeding it something tasty?"

No, but I would never do that with one of my monitors, either.

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