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i was thinking about how you trained your lacies, and im going to give it a try with my croc monitor. the ? is what kind of gloves would you recomend using that he might not be able to get his teeth through again he is about 18 to 20" stv so i know you can imagine what his teeth are like ..
thanks.
also he really isn't too bad

If you have an adult, I would use those shark resistant gloves. hahahahahahahahaha

If yours is young, under four, no wait, three feet, use very thick welders gloves. I am not sure I would do this with croc monitors. I think common sense should allow to the answer.

I did keep and breed croc monitors and mine were very nice monitors, they were not nasty or biters at all. If anything, they were very shy.

Croc monitors have giant sharp teeth. I would be interested in hearing your results. Cheers

he is about 4.5' or so and your right he does not seem to inclined to bite but yes he is shy, and jumpy when touched.
i will post my results for you if i still have fingers to type with lol..
thanks

I have first hand experience with spazy crocs....they will bite! Wouldn't even mess with the w.c. adults...only the little guys.
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And they were great, non biters.

There are crazy individuals of all species of monitors, I have seen wacked out spastic Savs, and ackies for darn sake. Its more about what has happened to them, not about what they are.

In the case of wildcaught croc monitors, what do you expect out of them is what my be very unrealistic. Those individuals experience so many things that are not natural and out of their control, its amazing there are any sane ones.

Just think about it. They are caught, tied up, tied to a branch or a tree, stuffed into boxes, bags and crates. They are stuffed in with all sorts of other animals(the smells). They are held, sometimes still tied to a stick, for long periods in close contact with all sorts of wild animals and birds, not just other monitors. Then they are stuffed in small crates and shipped all over the world in all sorts of temperatue conditions. Then they go from person to person, and box to box, until they reach you. And you think they should be "normal"? Nope, you should not think that. You should understand they are highly stressed and treat them in such a way.

Unless they are extremely extremely done in, they can regain their normal behaviors. But all of them are stressed in one way or another. Cheers

i totally agree with frank on this. my first 2 crocs were wild caught bus i only had the first one for a month or less the second i had for about 2 to 3 months theywere both verry verry skitish, u know touch them and they would run around like crazy ,but not really try to bite unless restrained and then it was more just opening their mouth. the one i had for 2 months after about 1.5 month started to calm down i could hand feed him ,and hold the little rubermaid that a would give him hard boiled eggs in, and most of the time i could reach in and gently pet his back ,and he was 5 feet long. so they arent really all that bad. but i have never tried franks method that he used with his lacies thats why i asked about the gloves because i know what there teeth are like and i never let one bite my gloved hand..

also the 2 i got on a trade and were for resale and i dont really do the whole buy sell trade thing anymore it was about 3 years ago

also anyone who cares i just got a new job today working at a place that breeds raises and trains tigers leopards and the ocasional lion so if any of you have any experience with these please let me know as i am verry new to this.. they are going to train me but any of your stories would be cool to hear.. im mostly going to be working with tigers though
thanks