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does anyone know what types of tricks could I teach my chinese water dragon.

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Lol i really don't think you can. They're not domesticated animals. I was watching pet start though and this guy had small colony of water dragons that he set on miniture furniture in differen't poses. But this is mainly because the water dragons are either extremely scared so they become motionless, or extremely tame. In his case i think they are just pretty tame. It's very difficult to "tame" water dragons. You have to handle them enough so that they get use to it, but not so much that you stress them out too much. I've had mine for 4 years and he's not tame yet. But he was also wild caught and i only take him out every few months.
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That's Larry the lizard guy. His trick is simple if you have a reasonably tame lizard you can put them in a hypnotic state by tuning them on their backs and rubing or apply a small amount of preasure to the abdomen. I don't know what tricks you could expect a lizard to do, they don't fetch, and they don't roll over. You might be able to train them to do climbing tricks or swimming/diving, since those fall under natural behavor anyway. You can train them to come to you when you call and to be generally calm about being handled. The key is to get them to associate your call, and being handled, with being fed. insist that they take food from your hand. Have food ready for them when ever you call them and insist that they tolerate a certain amount of handling before being fed.

My wd is captive bred and I have been hand feeding him since he was a baby. Almost every day I leave his cage cracked open and he almost immedietely leaves his cage. He climbs over me and goes to all the windows and spends 15-30 min looking out each one. Then he comes to me and I give him foor. Sometimes he sdoesn't want food and will simply warm up on my leg, shoulder, whereever. He can climb the stairs to get to his cage on the 2nd story. He usually returns to his cage after an hour or so of romping. At first I made sure not ot react to him so he wouldn't get scared. I handle him a lot and let him ride on my shoulder often. Main worry is to keep him from getting cold. you can tell by their color. the brighter they are, the warmer they are. Once they start turning dark, you want to get them back to their basking spot. About leaving his cage on his own, that was his idea: one day when I was cleaning the aquarium that makes up the bottom of his cage, while I was away he got out on his own, and I just let him wander. Mainly I want him to be able to do what he wants, which is probably not fetching. As a note- wd's don't have a diaphragm and when they are upside down, they stop moving because they CAN"T BREATHE so I don't advise doing this with your dragon. Good luck!