And most likely not for the reasons you think. And the word stupid is not about you, its about this subject.

Its stupid because of questions like yours, most 99.99% of people asking about training a monitor do not know or understand how to properly keep a monitor. This should be what they ask about, husbandry.

So as with all animal training, the animal in question MUST be kept with decent normal husbandry(decent husbandry). With monitors, the average husbandry allows the poor monitor to live about 6 months, trained or not. So yes, its stupid to ask about training, When you should be asking how to FIRST keep the monitor alive, then ask about allowing the monitor to achieve NORMAL LIFE EVENTS, then of course you could train the HEALTHY HAPPY(as can be in a cage) to entertain you by doing tricks.

My difinition of the word stupid and its use on here is.
A. To not think in a normal logical way that benefits both the keeper and the kept.
B. to not consider the health and welfare of the caged animal, yes the word stupid is to keep making the same mistake over and over.
C. to not consider the poor animal AT ALL. Its a monitor and ITS goal is to become one, NOT A LAPDOG. Or some other domesticate toy(something to play with).

So forgive me for using the word stupid, but in all reality, to see this subject time after time, and considering the untimely death of 99.99% of all these "trained" monitors is, well, STUPID. I am not smart enough to think of a better word then stupid.

Its not taboo, its just stupid(at least to me). Watching vids is one thing, investigating and finding out what happens to all those monitors is another. The stupid part is, those vid animals almost never live past five years of age, and considering medium sized monitors(average) can live over twenty years, in captivity. The word stupid keeps popping into my mind. First the entire subject, they at times the folks doing this stuff(training their animals to death)

Yes, HEALTHY monitors are easy to train, actually they train themselves. Cheers

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