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Ok my new timor monitor is a lil spastic. If I try to touch hem he runs like a mad man aroud the cage. he is a younge. I want to know will he calm down

First of all, you have to realize everything is new and strange to him/her. Leave it alone and don't try to go grabbing at it every chance you get, as it will only get more freaked out. Timors are generally very secretive and if kept properly, hardly seen at all. They are not known to be particularily people friendly. I don't have a Timor, but have been on this forum long enough to read other very experienced people's posts, and this seems to be the consensus of opininion. There are of course exceptions to every rule. I would consider them more of a display animal. Good luck!

Pam

I have Timors, i would agree the less you handle them the better. They are very high strung. Some will calm with time but most stay very shy. I have had mine for a little more than 2 years. They are to the point that they don't run and hide as soon as they see me, but if i open the door to their cage and don't have food they are gone in a second. Good luck with it they are very pretty monitors i think, and if you are patient they will be worth the effort.

Steve

I'm sort of in two minds on this. My male Timor, who was probably WC as an adult a few years back, is very very shy and secretive and all that and I'm pretty sure he'll never really be 'tame'. But my new little Timor, who was WC or farmed as a baby, is already not running away from me as I walk by, and I can even get right by the tank. She is also out in the open for a good part of the day. I suspect my male is like this, but hides when he hears me walking around in other parts of the house. So it seems the younger your Timor is, the better chance you have, perhaps.
But I DO know that chasing them around isn't going to get you anywhere. You have to try NOT to scare them. This is going to be a very slow process. For myself, I'm going to try working on my Timor not running when I open the cage, starting maybe in a month or so.
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I just went to feed her and I opened the cage and put the pinkie right down beside her and she didn't even move. I can't believe it! Hope she eats it, she's only taken crickets so far and I'm trying to move to a cricket-less household.
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