Seeing how my red reacts on food this CERTANLY will not be risked in my house...
And I would call everyone who tries this with an adult tegu (or monitor or any large reptile for that matter) a fool.
They might be smart and they might not bite the first time or maybe the second...but when this gets out of hand...you might loose the hand!
You can never put full trust in a reptile no matter how long you got him and how loving he seems. Always know what your doing when your doing something and always be prepared the animal could turn against you.
I know of a guy who owns a little B&W, we call it Theo the cuddle tegu...Well hes nice and cuddly, he could even sit on Patrick (my son of 6) his lap and be stroked no problem. We almost tought this one tegu was not fully right in the head the way it was that calm and mellow.
But one night the owner forgot the rules about dealing with reptiles and forgot they remain wild animals and as he was handeling it he thought he needed to take a bit of rubish off of the mouth of this tegu....He got bit.
Luckely for him this B&W is only a small one still else he might have lost his finger or maybe a bit more...
And this is a guy who owned and is used to handling large monitors like salvator and such who are by no meens tame.
1.0.0 T.rufescens
0.1.0 T.merianae
1.0.0 Testudo horsfieldii
1.0.0 Stenodactylus sthenodactylus
0.0.1 Ceratophrys ornata
0.0.1 Geocholone elegans
0.0.1 Python regius
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