You said..."Still the same awful attitude despite everything"...some things never change. I used to have a prehensile tailed anole that loved red pepper but when offered a strip of it always looked back and forth at my thumb and the strip of pepper trying to decide if he wanted me out of the cage bad enough to bite my thumb or if he was hungry for red pepper. After 12 years with me he still had to decide! I made sure he always got the pepper!