WOAH! Veiled trained to drink from owners hand!

Some will actually drink from water bowls. My lazy female Veiled expects me to spray the water into the side of her mouth, and my male Panther is picking up that habit also!
 
my veiled will drink from a bowl. I know this because when i first got him for about a week i had a waterfall in there and he would drink out of the little area that the water sat in.

I think someone on the forums was saying that the first time they saw their veiled drink was out of their hands.

Moose doesnt have a waterfall anymore, but when he is outside and i mist him he has climbed onto the nozzle while I'm spraying and tried to get at it coming out
 
The only time I ever see my Jackson drink is when he's being misted. I've got a dripper setup but I haven't ever seen him drink any of the water from it.
 
I would never "Bathe" a chameleon that way. I think it is possible he may have good intentions, just carrying them out the wrong way. I have heard if you are dealing with a chameleon the has not defecated for extended amounts of time, sometimes a great thing to try is a mid size, deep tupperware container(or even shallow I guess, whatever seems to keep you cham calmest) just deep enough to the point where it won't come above his shoulders. You want to get him in as relaxed as possible and let him soak a little while gently palpating downward on the gut. This how and the only reason why I think I would ever have to "bathe" my chams aside from the usual mistings, not in a giant bath tub......I dont even shower my chams in the tub.
 
SoCaliSon said:
I would never "Bathe" a chameleon that way. I think it is possible he may have good intentions, just carrying them out the wrong way. I have heard if you are dealing with a chameleon the has not defecated for extended amounts of time, sometimes a great thing to try is a mid size, deep tupperware container(or even shallow I guess, whatever seems to keep you cham calmest) just deep enough to the point where it won't come above his shoulders. You want to get him in as relaxed as possible and let him soak a little while gently palpating downward on the gut. This how and the only reason why I think I would ever have to "bathe" my chams aside from the usual mistings, not in a giant bath tub......I dont even shower my chams in the tub.
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Bathing for battling dehydration by dumping your cham in a tub is ignorant thing to do.
Soaking your chameleon (as Joe mentioned above) is also good for helping to release sperm plug (you still have to manually remove them, though. Warm bath makes it easier).
 
I shower my under the sink nozzle. Warm and gentle. They love it. I dont take baths because I don't like to bath in my dirt. Shower is fresh running water that massages them.
 
I have a spritzer that will release one drop of water at a time from the nozzle, and Thaxter usually understands how to drink from that (though he's never quite figured out that only the nozzle is supplying the water, and that licking the pump or the water reservoir doesn't work quite so nicely).

One of the only two times I've been bitten, I was foolishly dipping my fingers in water and holding them out to see if he would take a drink. He did, but he took a chomp, too. (The other bite was when I was a bit close holding out the cricket - he nabbed both cricket and fingers with his tongue, and pulled us both in.)
 
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