Handling a cham with gloves

[davemailcall]

Everyone knows as a cham gets older, their grips get really intense. Clyde is starting to get that way so the other day I got some old gardening gloves.

They were a gray/white-ish pair with little black spots on them. The black spots were little rubber grippers for when you are trying to pick up pots I guess. They formed a regular pattern and were very tiny. Probably about the size of an "o" on this page.

Anyway, I went in to pick up Clyde to let him free roam. Let me tell you...he went crazy! He turned on me so fast, puffed up, mouth openining hissing. Went the meanest shade of black I had ever seen.

My guess is that it was the dots on the gloves. The main color was very neutral. Anyway, I got rid of the gloves and I'm gonna get some plain average brown ones like every says!

 

[Justin Carl]

i use solid black gloves and my veiled dosent seem to mind. if he does get to walking up my arm and onto my shoulder it can hurt.

 

[ChameleonsTree]

i just used clear vinyl gloves when i had to

 

[dodolah]

i wear brown leather gloves.. and got the same intense reaction..

 

[nightcrawler]

thats a crazy story. i was thinking about something like that the other day. my room is a blue but like a bright blue and i have posters of girl super heros all over and they are all colored and crazy like. i was wondering if they would make him scared or anything. he never really liked to come out and everytime i open his door for some reason he breaks out as fast as he can and sits at the end of the door and just looks around. its weird. i was thinking about painting my room cham friendly colors, but i dont no what to use.

 

[davemailcall]

Seeing these responses...its interesting how some chams respond to some colors. Maybe the glove just made my hand really big or something.
Of course, most colors he's exposed to are brown, green and white. Of course, he's a cham and there is really no predicting how they are!


I know how hard they can bite, so maybe he knows that too! lol

 

[dectr6]

There was a thread a while back that was a duplicate of this one. The guy was using the exact gloves your talking about and his cham went nuts. Maybe the little rubber dots look like scales to a chameleon. Maybe you can find it with a search. Take care. David

 

[Shayne]

I have had my veiled for about 6 months and he dont seem to mind handling he just walks up and on to my hand But after reading this thread i think it may change soon lol