To nip, is monitor language for, go away, move over, this is my spot or the like. If they nip you, I think that is a very good sign. To me, it means they are treading you as one of them, and totally afraid of you.

Considering the above, nipping has nothing to do with being tame, in fact, its about being tame, or they would bite the holy beans out of you. To bite the only beans out of you, is the other end of the scale from nipping. Let them nip, it will get over it, hopefully.

A little story, one of the monitors that made me really like them, did this. I would put my hand and arm in the cage and it would walk up my arm. IT would sit on my shoulders while I watered and fed other cages. When it was ready, it would get antsy and I would put my arm/hand, back in its cage. It would then go back in its cage.

At times I did not want it to climb up my arm, I would block it with my hand, you know, just place my open hand in front of it. It would then nip my hand. I was telling it, no, and it was telling me, yes. How the heck great is that? to argue with a monitor. Indeed, that simple behavior was marvelous. Cheers

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