Taking advice from someone that walked into a pet store with a video camera may not be the wisest thing to do. If the monitor is cool it will appear "tame". If the monitor is tired, it will appear tame. If you take a somewhat cool monitor and tire it out, it will appear tame.



I told the person int the video that I do not feel that is the best way to "tame" the dumeril. They are rather calm monitors to begin with, especially the females. Here are some images not from a pet store, but from my house. I have never force handled them, not have I made them walk from hand to hand to tire them out.





















A Little Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73PsLLvvLRc



I have a pair of Tom Crutchfields dumerils, and they are great. They are both calm, eat great, and either eat from tongs or my fingers. They didn't at first, but over time that have. Manchilds's dumeril was the same way.



Here is the enclosure for the pair:












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