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OK guys,
I told you last time I took her out she behaved, so I tried again yesterday and got my @#$@ tailwipped, so what I did was I put her on my lap and used my two hands to cup her sort of like she was in her hide (clay pot base) and she stayed fine although everytime I rubbed her a little she hisses and tailwipped me.

Anyway I think this method might work out in a while, so Im gonna keep trying it, if you guys have any thoughts let me know.

Jack

How long have you had your uro? Mine still tail whips me and I've had her since early Jan. Not as often as she used to, I hand feed my uros a lot of hibiscus flowers, because they seem to enjoy them. It's really the only thing my female will eat out of my hands. After I feed her a bit she usually calms down and lets me hold her.

np

Sorry about taking my sweet time on replying Jack. I'm not sure if mine is wild caught. A friend of ours got her in Tenessee for a christmas present for us all.. because I had always complained about never being able to find a female uro. She doesn't seem wild caught, as soon as we got her she ate and she was nice and plump.. pooping on people already. I would assume that if she was wild caught then she was handled a lot at the pet shop.

How often does yours eat.. I strongly suggest you find it's favorite food and feed it some everytime you hold it, before and after. You say that your uro is too fast for you to let it roam around, use the hand over hand approach. Let it have it's freedom but at the same time let it know you're the one who's in control. How do you hold it, because if you hold it too tightly, if it has no freedom it wont want to be held and it will keep struggling. Animals are animals, and will always be animals, animal instinct takes over very often.. all those people who say that their uro has never ran away from them, I strongly doubt that that is the truth. Give it time.. it hasn't been that long.. and with luck everything will work out.

Josh..

Our newest mali girl likes to squirm around a lot when she's out of the cage, so to try to get her to calm down i just let her wander all over me. i was just sitting on the couch half watching tv and half watching her. i was wearing a long sleeved jersey/cotton t-shirt with the sleeves pushed up, thus the extra sleeve was coming down over my elbows since the sleeves are so long. well, little anna found the space between my arm and the rest of that sleeve and just curled right up. it was almost like a little hammock, she even let me walk around with her in there like that, holding my arm up. so cute
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Emily
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Mine is too fast to let her wander alone, I actually dont mind the tailwipping or the hissing she use to crap on me thats whyt when I put her on my lap I have her over some newspaper and also the reason I dont let her rome around, The other day I was holding her and she jumped out of my hands and into a small garbage can, when I tried to pick her up she jumped out and led me to a chase, If I didnt have allot of vent holes and stuff for her to get lost Id let her roam around, Im waiting for a day its wamr enough here in NY and Ill put her on a leash I used to use for my Chilean Dwarf Tegu and take her outside.
But Like I said the tailwipping and hissing is much prefered over the pooping, so as long as she doesnt poop on me were doing good.

Jack