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Kel
at Sun Mar 6 05:39:12 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Kel ]
Absolutely agree with previous post.
If you scare or hurt the hatchling, it will be afraid of you. If it's afraid of you, it'll try and get rid of you when you go near it by biting. If you then do something to scare or hurt it because it bit you... well, you can see the loop you're in. Now you've lost his trust, he perceives you as something dangerous and it's going to take some hard work on your part to turn that round.
The only way you're going to calm a hatchling down is by being kind, gentle and persistant. You understand what's going on because you can link cause and effect. He doesn't have the capacity to to that - all he's doing is reacting instinctively to what he sees as a dangerous situation. You have to persuade him that you aren't dangerous after all.
What sort of tricks have you tried so far? We might be able to recommend more.
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