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My baby BIT ME!!!!!!

spooked Dec 02, 2003 03:42 PM

YIKES!!!!! She/he is about 6 weeks old now. I try not to handler her to much so I don't stress her out but do pick her up occassionly to hold her/bath her. She has been hiding quite a bit in the last two days. I reached in to pick her up (putting my hand in and leaving it there for a bit before I made any move to pick her up) and when I picked her up, she bit me...not once....not twice...but 3 times!!! Of course it didn't hurt my finger but WOW did it hurt my feelings!!!

Christina

Replies (2)

meretseger Dec 02, 2003 05:45 PM

Well, they can't talk, so they communitcate with their mouths in other ways. It wasn't anything personal. My dragon tries to bite me every single time I handle him, and he's still my buddy. (Mine's a bit of a horror story, odds are yours won't be that bad)
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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?

trevoro Dec 02, 2003 06:41 PM

you should try handling it more. you probably would put more stress on it by not handling for a period and then all of a sudden picking it up.
mines been out of its tank at least 2 times a day since it was settled into its home

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