Does anybody have any ideas on how to train a tegu to defecate in a litter pan, or even just in his enclosure? Also dropping urates, too... He's gonna start free roaming the house and I don't want him leaving presents all over everything. Any techniques/suggestions/tricks?
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Potty training
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I always gave Boon a lukewarm bath before letting him free roam, he defecated within 20 seconds of hitting the water almost every time :-D
Mine does the same, but I'd rather train him to always defecate in a pan or in his enclosure so that I can let him free roam whenever ha wants, and just leave the enclosure door open so he can come and go as he pleases. I've seen it done before... I wonder how though. I'm sure bobby's come across this...
From what I understand, you can't truly potty train a tegu. It's more of getting the tegu used to going in the same place regularly like you have been doing with the lukewarm water. I don't know that anyone has been able to train a tegu or any reptile for that matter to drop what's it's doing and find a litter box to drop off it's presents. Think of it like the cage aggression. They start associating you hand with food because they see your hand and get food each time they see it. If you apply this to potty training in say a bathtub, the tegu eventually learns that each time it is in the bathtub it is taken out when it defecates, eventually it will start doing it's business only when it's in the water. This can be applied to Bearded Dragon, Iguanas, Etc.
I used to have a friend that kept five iguanas and tegus free roaming around the house. They'd hang out on the couches, in the kitchen, etc. This is what I hope to accomplish with my tegu.... He mustve somehow trained them to do their business in one corner of the house. I'm no longer in touch with him, so Im asking you guys. It's not a question of IF it can be done, it's a question of HOW.
well i have heard of some tegus will NOT deficate in their enclosure. would that be considered potty training. my tegu has convieniently taught him self to crap in his water bowl. lol makes my life so much easier. lol would that be considered potty training. is there anyway i could get him to stop going in his water? jeez! lol
I talked to some other owners, and they said that tegus love to poop in water. So here's my idea: fill a 6" deep pan with water (something they can soak in, but still easily get in and out of), and place a heating pad underneath it to keep the water warm. Put the tray of water in the corner of a room. Place him in the water once a day and he'll poop in it, just like he does in the tub. Clean it out every time they poop in it. Eventually, maybe they'll start associating the warm water tray with pooping, and they'll start going in it daily. Can anyone prove the validity of this? Just something crazy I came up with...
we have four Tegus. We have 3 B&W arg. The oldest is Toni from Brooklyn, she is 2 years. We have one extreme from bobby his name is Titan an he is about 6 weeks old or so. We have one red arg. an B&W arg. who both are yearlings from Johnny Lorocca,(Bert's stock). the Reds name is "Red Zephyr" an the b&w name is "The Great White Houdini" aka "The Who". what we have done is we got a "litter box", just a box full of sand. we put it on oposite ends of where the hibernate. It started off that they would use the bathroom anywhere, so we thought maybe we could "litter box" train them, so we did just that. Red is hibernating so we're not sure if he uses the box but The Who used it right off the bat. Toni is getting use to it but hasn't use it yet but in time i beleive she will. Titan also like The Who used his box right away and they have continued to use it, so we are very pleased. If they use the bathroom in their cage/pen just scoop it up an put it in their litter box, an they should use it. mine did anyway. but thats how we did it, and i hope this information helps yall, thanks, Trey.
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Check out operant conditioning or clicker training. it'll blow your mind man.
