Playing fetch with monitors

[stephanbakir]

Friend took his dog to the park to play fetch and decided to bring his monitor along for kicks. After a few minutes the monitor got to the ball first and tore the crap out of it, then smashed it on a rock.

Note to self, don't play fetch with a monitor unless you pack extra balls.

[Lankyrob]

Heheheheh :yes:

I play fetch with my little guy but only works with one particular piece of wood from his substrate, when we cleaned out his enclosure i kept the piece of wood to one side and put him back into the new fresh enclosu. He tore the whole thing to pieces digging through the substrate and throwing it all about so i showed him "his" piece of wood through the glass and he ran to the doors and stared at me, opened the doors and threw it to the far side and ran off, picked it up and ran back to me. All we got to do now is teach him to drop it, sometimes he wont let go and wants to play tug of war with it but am scared he will hurt his teeth or mouth so normally have to wait for him to drop it before throwing it again.

[NennaMeerkat]

Lanky, that is HILARIOUS that your guy is obsessed with a particular piece of wood. You need to get shots of him carting it around and such.

[Lankyrob]

Lanky, that is HILARIOUS that your guy is obsessed with a particular piece of wood. You need to get shots of him carting it around and such.

On the profile : arthur thread there are couple of pics with him carrying it round in his mouth :)

[NennaMeerkat]

Okay thanks LOL Now I gotta go see.

[stephanbakir]

Has he grown since then? i remember the pictures and I'm pretty sure he was a tiny little one at the time

[Lankyrob]

He is full grown bar an inch or two - would love a big monitor but not got the space.

[stephanbakir]

Regardless of size monitors are fun to work with.

[Wolfus_305]

Ahah that game of fetch sounds like it would have been very amusing to watch

[Millinex]

"Tug of war" is actually a very good thing to do with your monitor, to help with neck muscles and what not. We recently lost a komodo at the local zoo because his muscle decayed from not having to work for food, and wasn't able to eat anymore.

-Mike

[infernalis]

muscular atrophy is such a terrible way for any reptile to die.

[stephanbakir]

Terrible way for anything to die, and its easily avoidable.

[Millinex]

Indeed, they had gotten rid of almost all their herps, and I won't lie the keepers there where well over there head. I offered to take care of the komodo for them free of charge, but apparently it wasn't worth the risk of me being in the cage with him.. Bet they regret it...

I'm glad they shut down their herp house, they didn't know what the hell they where doing.

-Mike

[infernalis]

I'm glad they shut down their herp house, they didn't know what the hell they where doing.

-Mike

happens all over.

I snagged my BP from a chick who was using her apartment for a crack house. (more ways than one) and he was a mess.

They thought it was "cool" to display him without a hide on top of a pair of speakers with 15" woofers.

I flipped out on her, she said "snakes don't have ears"

[stephanbakir]

She forgot about vibrations? what was the stress level of this snake.

[infernalis]

She forgot about vibrations? what was the stress level of this snake.


She was ignorant of vibrations.

The snake had green algae slime in his water bowl, stuck shed pieces, dried poop in the enclosure.. name your neglect it was there.

two live mice running around in the cage:eek:

That was a few years ago, Kane is doing great in my care.

Fat pig even made advances at me while I was there..

[TeaNinja]

that's bad on many levels lol