Hi I've been putting my finger next to my beardie every day when he's relaxed for about a week now, sometimes once a day, sometimes several if i have the time...
He trusts me enough to let me put his finger right next to him without running or flinching too much. He just kinda looks at it and carries on. After a while I'll try and pet his front leg a bit, and he used to be a little more freaked out but now he just flinches and calmly backs away an inch or so from my finger.
Today, I held my finger a little longer than I usually did and just made eye contact with him and smiled, and he seemed a lot more observant than usual. He stared at it for a good 30 seconds flat, and looked at it and me back and forth. After a while, though, he moved past my finger on his rock, and eventually went onto the ground facing towards the glass where I had the front door open. I didn't know what this meant, I was just scared he was going to try to jump out and escape and he's a little baby and his enclosure is high off the ground I didn't want him to hurt himself, so I put my hand up to the glass right in front of him which kinda frightened him and he ran back but he quickly went back up to his rock, to where I put my finger again and he still looked at it a bit more.
Any idea what this could mean? Was he trying to escape? Was he just curious? He's never voluntarily went closer like that unless I had food.
He trusts me enough to let me put his finger right next to him without running or flinching too much. He just kinda looks at it and carries on. After a while I'll try and pet his front leg a bit, and he used to be a little more freaked out but now he just flinches and calmly backs away an inch or so from my finger.
Today, I held my finger a little longer than I usually did and just made eye contact with him and smiled, and he seemed a lot more observant than usual. He stared at it for a good 30 seconds flat, and looked at it and me back and forth. After a while, though, he moved past my finger on his rock, and eventually went onto the ground facing towards the glass where I had the front door open. I didn't know what this meant, I was just scared he was going to try to jump out and escape and he's a little baby and his enclosure is high off the ground I didn't want him to hurt himself, so I put my hand up to the glass right in front of him which kinda frightened him and he ran back but he quickly went back up to his rock, to where I put my finger again and he still looked at it a bit more.
Any idea what this could mean? Was he trying to escape? Was he just curious? He's never voluntarily went closer like that unless I had food.