Sleeping on the floor?!?

[Fluffybunny5000]

ok so 3 y/o M veiled “Hannibal” is kept without a cage he has an open room with trees, lamps,misting, etc. and it’s now springtime here in Florida which usually he likes to climb down and walk on the ground a bit and explore. So he’s found the dirt comfortable at the base of the tree I’ve caught him sleeping there the last couple of nights. It’s incredibly cute and doesn’t seem to be doing him any harm but has anyone else ever experienced this behavior?

 

[Carlton]

A couple of possible reasons. He could be choosing a cooler darker spot to settle for the night. Or, he could have been down on the ground when it got dark (lights off, saw darkness through the window) and as his brain cooled down just got sleepy right where he was.

I had 3 melleri who free ranged in a bedroom. Once in a while the big older female wandered out into the rest of the house but the place I usually found her in the evenings when I got home was in the bathroom behind the toilet. I suspected she wandered in there at some point during the day, it was cool, damp, and shady back there, her brain chilled, so she just stopped moving and napped until I found her. Her other favorite spot was behind the fridge perched on the fan housing, but it was warm there. Then she'd stroll back out for another lap around the house, visit the plant stand in the front window, climb over the couch, down my arm, over my shoes, tongue lash and lecture the "other" cham she saw in the stereo cabinet glass door, go around to the back of the cabinet trying to find the intruder and get hung up in the cables. After being rescued by her personal attendant, she'd get a ride back to her Ficus tree, perimeter patrol completed to her satisfaction.

 

[Fluffybunny5000]

I just love how he patrols they are so much more curious an active than they are portrayed to be. He’s even kinda cuddly and likes to be near me when I’m in my office he will climb on the branch closest to my head and go to the end where it starts to move under his weight. Did yours get huge too?

 

[Carlton]

I just love how he patrols they are so much more curious an active than they are portrayed to be. He’s even kinda cuddly and likes to be near me when I’m in my office he will climb on the branch closest to my head and go to the end where it starts to move under his weight. Did yours get huge too?

Melleri are much larger than veileds! My biggest one was about 24" TL.

Hate to burst your bubble about him being "cuddly". He is probably attracted to and curious about what you are doing...chams are totally visual, but not necessarily seeking you out for other social reasons.