I have a male veiled who is 15 months old and looks the picture of health. I am stymied by his recent behavior. For the longest time he would see me and dive to the bottom of his cage.

Then, occasionally for about a week at the time he would swell up like an old toad and turn 15 different colors at the sight of me. Now he does it all the time and has been for about 3 weeks now. Other people can go into his room and all he does is turn to look at them while displaying normal "at ease" colors...BUT, if I go in the room he does the swelling bit, turns fantastic colors with blue spots, stretches out his tail with a small curl at the end and does the cha-cha. Now if that weren't enough he also hisses, gapes and charges me. What the heck is going on? I am the only one who feeds him, sprays the cage and cleans it. I don't handle or tease him....is it just hormones and, if so, why just me? I have to admit that he is majestically amusing in this state BUT I HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING TO DESERVE IT!!!!!



Can any of you think of any reasons for this?

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