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If anyone has been successful at the whole papertowel training could you give me an idea of where to start? My two bd's are on silkworms now and man is their poo a pain to clean up with the extra water the silkies give! Thanks for any ideas!
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Jamie
0.0.1 corn snake (Rio)
1.0.1 Bearded Dragon (Zeus and Koda)

For the most part (not all) will go on one side of their tanks SOME in the same location daily. I have had luck with a few of mine covering their choice spots LOL with the paper towels. Not exactly potty trained yet, but this will give you a start in the right direction, and help with clean up. After they realize this is the place to go you can start making the paper towel spot smaller. I have yet to get mine to go on the 5 inch square some have LOL , but I feel it's a start. Anyone experienced in this Cheri if your still around can help a bit more with how she got some of hers to do it, but I believe for the most part this is how it is started. Good luck. I notice in my experiance it is easier with older dragons then it is with younger ones as they seem to let it go wherever they feel like.
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Mine seem to be potty trained pretty well. Every day I put their veggies in the cage and they go take a dump in it. I noticed something when I kept snakes. They liked to go into something that was depressed. For example I used to use Large dog bowls for water and they would crawl over the bowl so their tail and vent was in the bowl and go into it. I wonder if that has something to do with why my dragons like to go in their bowls so much. Maybe try putting a small bowl in the cage with a paper towel in it. Might be worth a shot.

Mike
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Mine did it himself. I had a 2 compartment "Healthy Choice" tv dinner tray I washed and placed in the cage. Usually when he is ready to go or has just gone he wildly scratches the glass. Then he started to be smug and lay on his branch. I looked and there in one of the compartments was his pooh. This has been going on for a couple of weeks. He may try to go in the compartment and some of it is on the ground under the rim. However, he seems happy and it is easy to clean up.

My beardie...well, I had her since she was a tiny baby, and it just happened. She gives me a funny look and repeats it if I don't get the hint. Then she lifts her tail. She is good about waiting for me to put a paper towel under her tail.

I think it's because when she was a baby I just watched her and could tell when she was about to go. She would start straining. Then came the paper towel. But she was also so weak I had to force feed her for a month. And it wasn't too long after she ate that she would poo.

Anyway, that was two years ago and she's healthy as a horse, and to this day she wants a paper towel put under her before pooing.

In fact she never goes in her terrarium (a 100 gallon tank) and I change the newspaper once every few months. and it's clean as a whistle (other than the newspaper yellowing from age!)

JadeFox

I think I have two little boys (with Koda I am not sure) and they go any and everywhere and with feeding them silkies right now it is just a little messy. I think I will start with a paper towel under the branch period b/c they tend to just hang the bottoms over and let loose!
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Jamie
0.0.1 corn snake (Rio)
1.0.1 Bearded Dragon (Zeus and Koda)