It has been said on this forum many times that chams have unique personalities and some may tolerate handling. I don't care what everyone has to tell me that carpets are shy etc, but all I can say mine isn't! I've had my CB carpet for 3 months now and I have handled him with ease. I AM AWARE THAT CHAM's COLOR SHOWS SIGN OF STRESS! The stress coloration only appears when I have my camera in front of him, otherwise while he is on me he is as calm as possible and so are his colors. And I do repeat, when I put my hand in the cage he crawls on my hand. If he really associated me with fear and as a predator why would he do this? He is also comfortable with me to hand feed. Every other day when I handle him he gladly takes crickets from my hand without question. Does not look around or anything, just goes straight for it. I think the reason why he freaked out and hissed at me was because of the change in environment. When I moved him into his old cage the flooring of the cage was no longer a soft towel but a hard surface. When he fell i'm assuming he wasn't use to falling on that kind of surface and freaked out, and when I tried to take him out of the cage he associated me with his pain, so he ran away climbed the screen cage and leaped off to get away from me. Yes, for that very moment he was scared of me. The reason why I asked was questioning the sudden change in behavior. How does he go from calm and docile he freaked out and crazy? My vet told me it was the environment change and the lack of cusion that he is accustomed to when he falls. So why is he falling so much? Is it the change from a repitarium mesh from a screen cage mesh (the window type of screening)? I see sometimes him struggling to grasp onto the repitarium sides and him trying to grab onto the black smooth surface of the black frame within. Anyone else experience excess falling when changing from a window type screen to a reptiarium type mesh?

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• Carpet chameleon in trouble, or so I thought! Scared and need help: LONG - jeffreypeacock, Sat Mar 26 13:32:42 2005
• RE: Carpet chameleon in trouble, or so I thought! Scared and need help: LONG - twinoats, Sat Mar 26 13:43:35 2005
• RE: Carpet chameleon in trouble, or so I thought! Scared and need help: LONG - jeffreypeacock, Sat Mar 26 14:13:26 2005
• RE: Carpet chameleon in trouble, or so I thought! Scared and need help: LONG - redoaksblues, Sun Mar 27 12:36:17 2005
• sounds like too hot - chamsrcool, Sat Mar 26 18:49:56 2005
• RE: sounds like too hot - jeffreypeacock, Sun Mar 27 12:59:39 2005
• RE: sounds like too hot - twinoats, Sun Mar 27 13:57:25 2005
• RE: sounds like too hot - jeffreypeacock, Sun Mar 27 18:00:23 2005
• RE: sounds like too hot - redoaksblues, Sun Mar 27 13:59:43 2005
• Just a thought..... - rozdaboff, Sun Mar 27 22:13:08 2005
• Bravo! - redoaksblues, Mon Mar 28 08:30:55 2005