Chinese Water Dragon
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=== Handling === | === Handling === | ||
| - | + | Chinese water dragons are usually very easy to handle once they settle into their surroundings. Don't rush things while teaching them to trust. They'll come around on their own and you don't often have to wait long. Just a matter of several weeks allowing a little more time for babies. Babies tend to be nervous since they're often on the bottom of the food chain, but as maturity comes on the calmer they become and you may be one of the lucky ones who earns that trust so well your water dragon looks forward to seeing you come to let it out for interaction. | |
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| + | Handling up to 20 minutes a day is a good start. Move slowly and where it can see you before going into it's home. If you come in from above then the shadow crossing the parietal eye located on the top of the head will see the shadow. This is a survival mechanism ingrained with the thought that this shadow could be a bird of prey coming in from overhead which often triggers the "flight response". You don't always have to interact in a hands on way. Maybe you just want to offer your water dragon a nice silkworm or waxworm from your hand once or twice a week. This will allow it to associate your hand with something good. Maybe just talking to it on a day will be all the time you have, but it's still interacting and it's learning your voice. | ||
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| + | Gentle and persistent "taming" sessions will win this interactive lizard over. | ||
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| + | --[[User:Prism wolf|Prism wolf]] 23:04, 25 February 2008 (EST) | ||
== Housing == | == Housing == | ||
