Hissing

[StewartTHEGecko]

Has your leopards ever hissed and bit you? Because mine does it right before I feed him. He only does it when I try to pick him up. After I feed him, he's fine. He just started eating a week ago. He's not even 6 monyhs yet. I'm not worried, just, want to solve it.:main_yes:

 

[grboxa]

How long have you had him for?. Some geckos take a while to get comfortable to handling. It happens all the time, your doing the right thing by handling, hell get use to it.

 

[StewartTHEGecko]

How long have you had him for?. Some geckos take a while to get comfortable to handling. It happens all the time, your doing the right thing by handling, hell get use to it.

About a month and a half-two months.He's fine after I feed him.:main_huh:

 

[grboxa]

That is funny, grumpy and moody before feeding...like me . All I could think of is just keep doing what your doing by trying to handle him before feeding unless it causes him a great deal of stress when he hisses. Honestly he should get use to it.....do you feed daily?

 

[StewartTHEGecko]

That is funny, grumpy and moody before feeding...like me . All I could think of is just keep doing what your doing by trying to handle him before feeding unless it causes him a great deal of stress when he hisses. Honestly he should get use to it.....do you feed daily?

Most of the time. Sometimes I forget one day or another.

 

[dlefik2008]

Has your leopards ever hissed and bit you? Because mine does it right before I feed him. He only does it when I try to pick him up. After I feed him, he's fine. He just started eating a week ago. He's not even 6 monyhs yet. I'm not worried, just, want to solve it.:main_yes:

my grown leos never do this, it's more the newer hatchlings, but not even all of them. usually they take a lunge at me or even chase me down when i go in their enclosures to get their food bowls or do quick spot cleanings, and let out these long screeching sounds. they always end up stopping that after about a week and a half two two weeks or so after they get used to me.

i just find that handling them a bit more, without being too aggressive so i don't spook them and make them drop a tail, and time, tend to make them mellow out. i've just had a raptor hatch here recently that even now, if i lift up it's rock to see him he'll screech a bit, and maybe even chase me down to get me lol. kinda funny in a way sometimes.

 

[StewartTHEGecko]

my grown leos never do this, it's more the newer hatchlings, but not even all of them. usually they take a lunge at me or even chase me down when i go in their enclosures to get their food bowls or do quick spot cleanings, and let out these long screeching sounds. they always end up stopping that after about a week and a half two two weeks or so after they get used to me.

i just find that handling them a bit more, without being too aggressive so i don't spook them and make them drop a tail, and time, tend to make them mellow out. i've just had a raptor hatch here recently that even now, if i lift up it's rock to see him he'll screech a bit, and maybe even chase me down to get me lol. kinda funny in a way sometimes.

He dosn't chase my down. I'm thankfull of that. He's stopped, just looks at me like"Dude, Im tryin to sleep here!"

 

[doublet74]

I've had my Leo for about 6 months. She still hisses at me when I pick her up. Just ignore it. Don't show fear or ur Leo will keep doing it because it will know u will leave it alone when it does.

 

[StewartTHEGecko]

I've had my Leo for about 6 months. She still hisses at me when I pick her up. Just ignore it. Don't show fear or ur Leo will keep doing it because it will know u will leave it alone when it does.

He must've learned "If he picks me up, Then I get fed extra!"

 

[Dimidiata]

Rango did this for the first few days, then he figured out that when he walks onto my hand theres a mealworm waiting.

 

[sunshinegeckos]

my younger ones will do it more than my older ones. My older ones only do it if I am trying to take them out when they dont want to in which case I leave them alone lol I had one gecko that I swear thought it was bigger than it was. It hissed and barked at me the minute my hand went in the cage.

 

[contracteryin]

Neara never has, Ahriman did for the first week or so when I had him and my friends gecko Genesis hissed at and bit my thumb when I was putting them in the cage, they haven't since.