Anyway you choose to work with your monititor is totally up to you. I dont know who would object to videos disscussed on other forums being disscussed here on this forum? Many of the people here may not go to other forums? In any event I would not use food as an enticment to get a monitor to interact with you in that manner, this can be dangerous [although some keepers choose sensationalism like this SV video as more entertainment] as feeding time for larger monitors can be varacious and is all about scent, if your finger had the scent of a rodent then you are setting yourself up to get bit. I think the girl in the dumeril video had a good approach other then being in a bad area to do this which even she commented on, alot of action in a petstore can spook the monitor you are trying to tame. Food with forceps may not be so dangerous with dwarf species but I would never try that on an SV or anything as that size, to many things that could go wrong and when it ends up on the local news people pass legislation and we all suffer.

Bob

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