Hand feeding!

[sowa]

Mango finally took a cricket from my hand. I've had her for 2-3 months now and all she does is run away and hiss at me. Every now and then I'll hold a cricket for her but she usually runs away. Last night she hissed, then stopped, starred at the cricket with a lot of interested and finally gave in. I was VERY excited lol. I really enjoy handing feeding so I was upset she wouldn't.


So this is a pointless thread, but everyone I told to irl didn't seem to understand why I was so excited lol :/

Here's a picture of her

 

[OwenPowell]

Congrats!
It takes a great deal of patience to earn some chameleons trust. Keep working at it and I'm sure she'll come around to being comfortable around you!

 

[ChamDE86]

Not pointless at all. Members here can appreciate the first time they were able to hand feed their cham! I've had my guy for almost a month and for the first time today, he took a butterworm I was dangling on a stick. Of course my next goal is to have him feed from my hand, but that'll take a little bit more time

 

[littlered20030710]

Very cool! I must be lucky I got my chameleon on Christmas and the first thing I did was hand feed him a mealworm and he ate it the first time. Santa must have not fed him that much lol.

 

[lovelychams]

Yay! That is huge!! I have been trying to work with Pickle to accomplish hand feeding. He finally took a hornworm from some tweezers the other day. Hopefully he will take one from my hand soon. It takes lottttttssssss of patience. Way to go, Mango!

 

[Kcbeck]

That is very cool. We got our veiled a week before Christmas and I have only seen him eat once. Crickets are disappearing but no show yet.

 

[brendan0923]

That is awesome! Congrats!! My veiled Oscar is actually very eager to hand feed. He actually constantly tries to eat my hand!