What a wonderful article!! When I first got my sav I was told the normal "get it out and handle it every day for 15 mins" - of course - it hated it. Then I found a really good forum that advocated the same as you - not handling and letting it "be a monitor". So now over the last couple of months (he's almost a year now) I've been using that "not touch much" technique - and certainly not pulling him out of hiding! Now I find he's out and about more and basking and not running to hide whenever I enter the room. Yesterday he was in his basking corner while I was busying myself around him in his viv (just talking to him like you say) and he just watched me. I even scritched his head and he didn't do any of the "don't touch me" signs. I have learned - but again, I say, wow! what a fantastic article
~Sue

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• HANDLING (not taming!) and other stuff - -Holly-, Sat Jul 1 23:04:15 2006
• RE: HANDLING (not taming!) and other stuff - ginebig, Sat Jul 1 23:43:17 2006
• RE: HANDLING (not taming!) and other stuff - mr-python, Sun Jul 2 00:10:17 2006
• RE: That was great Holly - FR, Sun Jul 2 01:50:15 2006
• RE: That was great Holly - bigwizzkid, Sun Jul 2 10:05:13 2006
• RE: That was great Holly - FR, Sun Jul 2 16:08:02 2006
• RE: That was great Holly - -Holly-, Mon Jul 3 00:07:45 2006
• RE: That was great Holly - ginebig, Mon Jul 3 06:25:08 2006
• RE: That was great Holly - ginebig, Mon Jul 3 06:28:30 2006
• RE: Thanks Holly, thanks FR - VaranusAqua, Sun Jul 2 16:59:31 2006
• RE: HANDLING (not taming!) and other stuff - phantompoo, Sun Jul 2 17:55:15 2006
• RE: Thanks Everybody! - -Holly-, Mon Jul 3 00:12:51 2006
• RE: Thanks Everybody! - phantompoo, Tue Jul 4 00:26:27 2006
• RE: Thanks Everybody! - razaiel, Tue Jul 11 06:24:18 2006
• This makes me want a monitor SO BAD. - squidbelly, Tue Jul 4 19:18:33 2006
• RE: HANDLING (not taming!) and other stuff - pgross8245, Sun Jul 23 08:54:12 2006