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[Carlton]

Like many animals, some chams have figured out that certain humans are trainable. You can't ask anything too complicated of them, but many moderately bright humans can learn to follow simple commands such as "open the cage", "let's go outside" and "feed the lizard".
It is always important to remember that a slight degree of trainability does not necessarily equate to intelligence; the completely illogical and haphazard color changes of humans generally argues against them possessing much intelligence of any sort.

ROTFL!!! So very true! I can't count the number of times my birds do double takes when they see my "plumage" for the day. Every parrot quickly learns just how fast their humans will give them treats to shut them up.

 

[Carlton]

Okay, now I want to know more about the spooky psychotic fischer's.

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By psychotic, try this:

He wasn't one who really enjoyed being picked up so I didn't bother him too often. He was the escape artist and the feeding bowl charger. Most of the time when I had the cage door open he would just sit calmly and watch. Other times he would decide it was a matter of life or death and he just had to get out. He would run over to my arm, lashing and curling his tail as he climbed up my shirt. He would sometimes sit quite calmly on my shoulder as I worked around the cage. Then, suddenly he'd work himself into a rage, gape, and bite my ear or hair. I had taken some chams for a routine vet check up and was holding him on my hand. He was calm, no stress coloration, but then with no warning he roared silently at me, leaped off my hand and landed flat on the hard office floor. In horror the vet and I ran into each other as we tried to catch him before he hit. He walked off as if it was nothing and allowed himself to be picked up again quite calmly. Personally, (and yeah, anthropomorphizing I know) I think he just wanted to see us panic.

 

[Carlton]

Oh and by the way, this was the same fischeri who shared a big overgrown cage with a male deremensis quite peacefully. I even have a pic of the two asleep on the same branch with hind feet touching. I really wish it was digital so I could share it.

 

[sallyb]

Excellent thread ! I handle Gizzy usually on a daily basis. Like Miss Lily`s Amy, Giz runs down her vine to the door when she spots me. Sometimes this happens several times a day. She really loves to be handled and responds with beautiful light colours. She feeds from our hands and loves to sit on my head and have a good look around - I totally believe it is good to handle her if she chooses and i find it just as wonderful as she does.

 

[Surfrat]

My male Ambilobe will literally run to the cage door and jump onto my arm when I open it. If I don't open it he will claw at the screen until I do and actually reach up for me. I am not kidding, he loves to be held.

 

[graydon]

my panther wont even go back in his cage after hes out.. I have to pick him up and set him on the ficus.

 

[philanddeb818]

My cham plots my death while i sleep.

OMG! You are so funny!

Glad to open the thread to such delightful thoughts. It's time we think out of the box (or cage)!

 

[Pure]

My veiled is a lil SOB! It took me 3-4 months for him to eat out of my hand, and since I moved him to his larger cage over a month ago. He won't go any where near me. He does the "you can't see me behind this branch" thing every time I come near. You see, to move him I had to actually force him to let me pick him up. Wile he didn't try to bite the hand he was perched on he was distracted by the other one. And well it seems they do indeed have a very good memory, cause I guess I traumatized him.

 

[jannb]

Jann,

Picturing you with Chams on leashes walking around the pool........PRICELESS!!

Nick

Nick; Sorry to disappoint you but I don't have little leashes. They ride on my hand, arm or shoulder. They love it and it's good exercise for me, too.
Jann