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i love how timor moniters look and how trheir cages look cooler than ackies so wats te adds to ackies?

What is up dude? Did you say that Timor cages are more attractive than Ackie cages??

I just got a visual of two monitors arguing about where they shop! One is yelling about how cool Ikia is, and the other insists on shopping at Walmart!

Man, YOU are the one designing the enclosure right? You can make it as cool looking as you want, no matter what species you have! For MOST people Timors do NOT make suitable captives.

Michelle

The first reason is a healthy timor is never seen and loathes human attention, Ive had both (my timor is my oldest monitor). Besides you know that all ackies are captive bred in the US, and most timors (regardless of claims to their birth status) are WC (imports). Ackies have huge big attitudes are brave they are in my opinion friendly, they hardly hide, but love to dig.

i have kept both, i have worked with timors alot but have only just got some (some cb babies came up, and they are cb i know the person who bred them and i know the parents).

and i am much loving keeping them, they never run away when i come upto the viv, and they are truely stunning monitors.

i have to say im enjoying them more than i have ever enjoyed akies. and to say "a heathly timor loaths human interatcion" is a very sweeping staitement for one person to make as there are always exeptions, i will say yes timors are flighty thats for shure but if you dont want a monitor you can handle then they are wonderfull.

haveing worked with wc and cb adults and young as well i have to say yes the wc are flighty but not what i would call realy loathing of humans i have seen much worse, Cb dont seem to be botherd by people at all as long as you dont grab em.

if u want animals u can handle alot i wouldnt go with monitors realy anyhow unless you have the space for an albig or somethin.
some pics of my timors

This is not just my experience, this turns into a list of the same responses from 50 others every time someone asks about timors, as I said I like mine, but 99% of new owners want to ditch theirs after they cannot handle it or tame it. Every reptile show in a major city, (or large shows) country wide brings these questions because a new owner has bought a pretty lizard they know nothing about and was pretty cheap, or saw what they want to buy next.
Timors, when you reach for them they run from you they struggle and run when picked up but after they realize your not going to eat them this time, they as mine did calm down then will walk all over you. I wore welding gloves specifically for the timor because of 2 things (no exageration here) razor blade sharp claws that make 1/8 inch deep cuts when they calmly crawl across your skin (at least my 27 incher did), and when you are looking the other way he would occaisionally strike at a a few fingers (very hard), after sitting still relaxed and calm with no aggression showing. After a few years we had an aggreement I get him out once a week or 2 to check him over, and he stopped ripping claws out and only tried to bite when I wasnt looking, he trusted me but he obviously disliked human handling. The more he was on one side of the glass and me on the other he was happier and stopped hiding from all humans all of the time. Timors are not a handleable monitor period.

i will happily agree with the fact they dont like handling that for shure lol.

but as far as hiding all the time goes (this is what i always hear from people) the cb one si have worked with have hardly ever hiden and the wc altho they hide more were on view quite a bit.

and as i said i wouldnt recomend any small monitor for handling other than akies realy and but even then i am yet 2 deal with one that has been very much at ease with handling.

i firmly belive that storri are the best small "pet" monitor

What the cage looks like doesn't matter... if you have a monitor that never lets you see it! If I don't dig my Timor out, I see him once every couple of weeks. I assume he's basking when I'm not around.
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?