hi,
I have recently been given a baby Beardie as a Christmas gift and have had him for about 3 weeks now. At first I had him in a small cage of roughly 40 x 40cm n recently re-homed him in a larger cage with some rocks, water bowl n log which he loves to climb on and lie under the basking light.
The problem is he does not like to be picked up at all... Every time I put my hand in the cage he runs like hell to get away from me and opens his mouth at times. When I eventually get hold of him by cornering him and letting him basically run onto my hand, he lies still for a few seconds then want to jump off again. I feed him his crickets using a small tweezers so he's used to that, its just as I want to pick him up that he gets scared... Any advice?
He's still quite small, about 8 to 9 cm from nose to tail tip.
I have recently been given a baby Beardie as a Christmas gift and have had him for about 3 weeks now. At first I had him in a small cage of roughly 40 x 40cm n recently re-homed him in a larger cage with some rocks, water bowl n log which he loves to climb on and lie under the basking light.
The problem is he does not like to be picked up at all... Every time I put my hand in the cage he runs like hell to get away from me and opens his mouth at times. When I eventually get hold of him by cornering him and letting him basically run onto my hand, he lies still for a few seconds then want to jump off again. I feed him his crickets using a small tweezers so he's used to that, its just as I want to pick him up that he gets scared... Any advice?
He's still quite small, about 8 to 9 cm from nose to tail tip.