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Good girl. They do drink from bowls sometimes. Some need to be trained, some do it on their own.
YoursTruly
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CooperDragon":dyvajt9h said:
How do you train them to do it? I'd love to know the secret!
Sincerely, Mother of a Stubborn Dragon :lol:
Usually just flick at the water to get their attention. http://sarahsbeardeddragonrescue.blogspot.com/2016/09/drinking-from-water-bowl.html
SpacialCoogs
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I take no credit for any training. I provide fresh clean water every morning with her greens. I've seen her drink from it before but it's quite rare.
I agree with Cooper about the water flicking, I've tried that with her and she looks at me funny. She also rarely drinks from her bath but her waste is usually quite hydrated. I expect her to get most of her water from her veg diet (i spritz them with a little water to keep the greens fresh).
I agree with Cooper about the water flicking, I've tried that with her and she looks at me funny. She also rarely drinks from her bath but her waste is usually quite hydrated. I expect her to get most of her water from her veg diet (i spritz them with a little water to keep the greens fresh).
I've only see my beardie do this once in about 4 years, and it was squash flavored water. I serve his veggies soaking in a little puddle of water so he'll get as much hydration as possible if he eats them (I never give up hope :roll: ), and it also helps them stay a little fresher and not dry out too soon under the heat lamps.
I thought we were onto something so I tried giving him water with little pieces of squash floating in it again, but he only did it just that once. Oh well...
I thought we were onto something so I tried giving him water with little pieces of squash floating in it again, but he only did it just that once. Oh well...
kingofnobbys
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Never saw either Puff or Rex drink from their water bowl when they still had it (their first 12 months), sit in it YES, poo in it FREQUENTLY. LOL
They did love a nice drink given by daddy with the universial household spray bottle, a few drops at a time.
Rex would often amble up to the house skink's water dish when George or Mildred discovered it and were busy drinking it dry --- more curiousity , thinking she was missing out on something yummy (more likely).
Toothless totally ignores the water bowl on floor for the house skink , though he will watch one of bts drink from it (so he knows it's there and what's in it is "good stuff'').
Peppa will amble up and watch my wife refill it and will step in it and taste-test it, but her response is very catlike , urk !!! what is that strange - wet stuff ?...., feet or hands shaking in air like a cat will do if it's feet are wet.... that usually convinces her to leave it alone.
The water skinks (Lucky and Wriggles) adored their water dishes , lots of long drinks, and often drowned everything in sight with their bathplay times - they were hard to keep out of their water dished when in the bath / swim / splash and paddle about mood.
Some with the wild house skinks (also water skinks).
They did love a nice drink given by daddy with the universial household spray bottle, a few drops at a time.
Rex would often amble up to the house skink's water dish when George or Mildred discovered it and were busy drinking it dry --- more curiousity , thinking she was missing out on something yummy (more likely).
Toothless totally ignores the water bowl on floor for the house skink , though he will watch one of bts drink from it (so he knows it's there and what's in it is "good stuff'').
Peppa will amble up and watch my wife refill it and will step in it and taste-test it, but her response is very catlike , urk !!! what is that strange - wet stuff ?...., feet or hands shaking in air like a cat will do if it's feet are wet.... that usually convinces her to leave it alone.
The water skinks (Lucky and Wriggles) adored their water dishes , lots of long drinks, and often drowned everything in sight with their bathplay times - they were hard to keep out of their water dished when in the bath / swim / splash and paddle about mood.
Some with the wild house skinks (also water skinks).
I guess that's why they're called "water" skinks, huh? :wink:
We use an upside down frisbee for a water dish (evaporation probably helps a little with humidity too, because the indoor air here is usually very dry, especially in the winter), but our beardie doesn't seem to recognize it as anything he can drink. Once in a while he runs through it, and then leaves little wet footprints all over the paper towels on his way back up to the basking platform. That usually happens when he's doing one of his little dances that says either "Get me out of here I have to go to the bathroom" or "Get me out of here I want to run around the house and get into mischief" or maybe even "Get me out of here I want to cuddle", and the frisbee water dish just gets in the way. But I don't think he's ever figured out that there's water in there that he could drink if he was thirsty. :?
He's never used the water dish for a toilet either, but our snake does that on a fairly regular basis -- it's actually easier to clean it up that way -- just dump and wash the water dish.
I get a kick out of Peppa's foot shaking like a cat -- I've never seen a beardie do that. Ours doesn't seem to care if his feet are wet.
We use an upside down frisbee for a water dish (evaporation probably helps a little with humidity too, because the indoor air here is usually very dry, especially in the winter), but our beardie doesn't seem to recognize it as anything he can drink. Once in a while he runs through it, and then leaves little wet footprints all over the paper towels on his way back up to the basking platform. That usually happens when he's doing one of his little dances that says either "Get me out of here I have to go to the bathroom" or "Get me out of here I want to run around the house and get into mischief" or maybe even "Get me out of here I want to cuddle", and the frisbee water dish just gets in the way. But I don't think he's ever figured out that there's water in there that he could drink if he was thirsty. :?
He's never used the water dish for a toilet either, but our snake does that on a fairly regular basis -- it's actually easier to clean it up that way -- just dump and wash the water dish.
I get a kick out of Peppa's foot shaking like a cat -- I've never seen a beardie do that. Ours doesn't seem to care if his feet are wet.
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