How I Tame Angry & Scared Bearded Dragons

I never realized how bad my cord management is until I took a photo sitting here, but okay today I wanted to talk about something I enjoy probably more than I should uh and that's

angry

bearded

dragons

, there's going to be a a lot of

angry

animals when things come in and out that come from very different homes or are just very individualized, although even if that home worked very hard to domesticate the animal, there is still a lot of variation that you may be able to hear. There's background noise because one of those beardies is outside right now and he's like running to all the other enclosures.

All the

dragons

are kind of separated from each other because there are four of them in the room and they get

scared

when they see each other. others, but everyone saw this guy, who I'm going to grab now that he's a little worried and has been out for a while, so we'll see how he acts, so if you're used to a

bearded

dragon, this may not be. I know the personality you normally see in one or maybe it depends on what your dragon is like, but this is calm, telling them to calm down unfortunately doesn't work, but I wanted to go over the techniques I've used to

tame

dragon breeds.

Get them used to handling them and maybe even like them a little. Animal Skills is a website where we sell walk in and walk out animals. If you need to rehome an animal we usually take it in and get it to perfect health and then sell it on the site and this is one of those, along with many others, that I have worked with and most of the readers are super friendly, maybe it's like a third of them need a little work and a quarter or something on the crazy side like this, so why would a bearded guy be so crazy in the first place?

Well, the first and simple one is because they were not handled, uh, or mishandled when they grew up, but even if we were doing that, there are only those individuals who are still not a big fan because just the personality and not all of them are clones of themselves. , they are very individualized, it is quite simple to tell when a dragon is unhappy, its beard will turn black. It's also obvious that they have their mouths open, they kind of show you their teeth because they have some pretty intimidating teeth, they look very sharp, I admit I've never been bitten, vibrating a dragon, uh, although we've had a few, it doesn't come.

Through me, not that I doubt it's the worst bite ever. I'd rather be bitten by a dragon than some of the other things in the room and we could experience that today. I really hope not. I want to keep my streak going because getting bits not why people like to promote getting bit is not fun not getting bit let's move on and get into what I usually do to turn a dragon like this into a dragon that is calm and easy to work with though Don't be. I can show you the full transformation of this guy, since it takes a little time at first.

I didn't start him in the enclosure, I probably should have, but usually when you have an annoying beardie, you walk into the enclosure and they immediately open their mouths. Especially when you start reaching out this is very intimidating, just imagine these huge meat things just coming down and approaching you. It won't be fun. You will do everything you can to defend yourself. They will go into fight or flight mode like anyone else. another animal and I think it's kind of adorable when they do this. I don't want them to be stressed. He is very stressed right now.

He's very unhappy, which is one of the things you may have to deal with while working on this, but since then. he's already stressed, you might as well enjoy it, it's weird to say, they basically try to act angry and

scared

but really you just like looking into their eyes and you just see fear and it's kind of cute, it's like, oh, and I don't. I don't know that you feel a little bad, but it's like they're so innocent that they're just trying to stay safe while getting scared like this. He's also had plenty of opportunities to like me, he could still bite me right now, but he just chooses not to. so getting to the enclosure is the first difficult feat you have to accomplish, going from the top is usually quite intimidating, so when I pick up a dragon to start with, I usually first of all make sure they know I'm there.

I don't want to scare them, but let's face it, they probably know I'm there, even if they see you, if they see your face and you're like that and you come from above, this may not be seen as the same entity as them. I don't recognize that the hand is connected to me and that can still scare them, so what I try to do with almost any animal is start by crouching down, away from them, and very lightly touch them and let them know that someone is there. and he's oh god look at my arm it's so scratched you can wear gloves if you want I don't know why I don't I forgot how sharp and bearded dragons can be they still aren't like Savannah mod or bad but Still they are anyway, uh.

When picking them up, I usually start at the tail and then go up and pick them up. I'm not an expert. It's okay, I'm just sharing what I know and I pick them up from the The back legs are like this and I want to hold them right away so they don't feel uncomfortable like that. Once they're up, this is the scary part because you don't want to drop them, which is why I'm on the ground too. because if I let it fall it won't die and once it is in my hands each layer is this woman.

I can't remember if he is a man or a woman and they don't want me to prove that she is a woman, so once you have done that. the dragon in your hands, each one will act differently, some might immediately start attacking and attacking your fingers, that's why you might consider wearing some gloves, it's harder to do and I find it less practical because there is that barrier between your hands, but it's also good not to bleed everywhere and especially on your hands, it sucks to have cuts there because, since you use your hands a lot, it touches you, since you do it with your hands a lot and I like to keep They're not bloody, I really don't want to let them go without crushing them and there is also a lot of eye contact here as eye contact can be a form of intimidation.

I've usually ignored that rule and I'm still fine, but I guess. It makes sense, it's just hard not to make eye contact with them as an animal, at least a non-human animal, and personally what I like to do is bring them close to my body, which is also a little scary, I usually try to leave . underneath, I keep my fingers clean and I work my way up to my chest, I flatten them completely so they feel a little safe like this and then I just let them relax and sit here now, some dragons, hey, look, he's really helping me.

He was about to say that some dragons are going to run, but that's kind of helpful here because, since I was distracted, I'm going to blame it on being distracted, but really it's just because I'm not the most awesome person about this yet. uh, he's not under the reptile rack, so I can take him out. I'm going to try to use the same technique where I go from the tail up, okay same idea to pick them up now they don't let go of their tails or anything like other lizards but I can still safely assume they don't like to be picked up down the line again.

I'm going to get closer to my body but a little bit away from my face and this time I'm really going to hold them on top and I don't know how important the next step is, but I try to keep petting them and then I do this until they're normal. Now it won't be like you do this over and over again. then it's done forever, but one of the goals, one of the problems that happens frequently, is that people have an angry animal, whether it's a snake or a lizard, they take it out and touch it for a second and then it gets angry and they put it back because they feel bad, they don't want to stress the animal and they want the animal to not hate them, so they say, oh, I better put it back so they don't always get angry. around me, but this is pretty much the opposite, they are smarter than some people think, at least in some areas where a good majority of species will remember that all they have to do to get what they want is get angry, It's like a form of parenting, I guess my goal is to not matter how angry they get, if you can, if you don't bleed too much, obviously this depends on the species, but for a dragon again, I can't speak because I haven't bitten, but with luck.

That's a good sign that you can usually do it without coming back to bite you. We haven't had the worst dragons in the world, but we have had some pretty crazy ones. He's not the worst or this isn't the worst we've ever had either. He had but he's a little higher on the list than average so I want to get a little confident but slow. I guess I don't want to grip too hard, but I don't want to have too soft of a grip and I just hold. hanging out, I'm talking a little loud right now so the microphone can pick me up easily and I can't predict how long it's going to take, it's been maybe 15 minutes so far in total, but again I'm filming and there are bright lights and he he ran away, she ran away a couple of times and I keep trying to pet him slowly and give him an idea that I'm not hurting him and you need to make sure you don't hurt him in the process by any means.

The hardest part is not dropping or throwing the animal when it lunges at you, that just takes a lot of practice, so again I like to be on the ground while doing this. I really like making pet heads. I'm not going to be a big fan, obviously, who would have guessed that he doesn't like main mascots? I'm trying not to be sporadic with the movement, even if he likes to pull sideways very quickly, I try to stay still where I am, but again, your instincts will take over because we are animals just as much as they are and it's like if practice was needed on both ends.

It is a learning experience for everyone. I'm just a little bit lucky because I've done this with others and obviously I still have problems, which will happen because everyone is different, it's nice, I don't know, it becomes kind of therapeutic after a while, you know, it's a little bit better with a dragon that is not angry, it is too. It probably doesn't help now that he's gone, she's not in it, why do I keep saying that he probably doesn't expect that when she's in her enclosure she can't see the other dragons, but now there are three dragons around and I I can?

I can't really move the enclosures, so normally I'd like to do this in a separate room, so even if you're good for a second, I try to go ahead and spread out when she calms down. I'll just try to move forward. Look. This lighting is terrible, wait, it's still bad, whatever, this isn't the filming room, okay, I came in here because he kept attacking the other dragons into the enclosures, uh, and it wasn't helping my case. , so I would recommend it as the only dragon. uh, they've spent 20 to 25 minutes doing the same thing, I can already tell that she feels less tense, her muscles are less tense, like I just said five seconds ago, but she still looks at me dirty and from time to time she opens mouth. she is facing the right direction, it is not what she expected, the funny thing is that as we sit here, I am always curious to see how animals react to other animals, like when they can access each other, but I made her stand up. to bonnabel's enclosure and there was just no reaction like savannah's models were pretty similar in shape like they both looked like lizards because they're both lizards they're similar in size but they didn't care at all bonnabel just licked the glass They're like oh? what's that?

And then the bearded guy didn't even care, but then I went and put her in front of another dragon and she just freaked out, so it's interesting how different they can tell you, how much they can distinguish between different species. of your own species, now you can see that there is a closed mouth, which is pretty good progress, obviously this is not going to be consistent when I take it back and take it out tomorrow, or even the second time today, but I usually do it a maybe a day um it will probably be like it was when I took it out maybe a little different usually I've noticed it takes maybe a month or so um it definitely varies some only take like a week others are immediate like there have been some dragons or some Animals in general we get to where the owner will say, yeah, he's so aggressive I can't handle him, that's crazy and then he says we'll be at his house and we'll take him out and he'll just be Okay, usually it's because people are too picky.

I don't want to use it as an example because I'm not wrong, but if you want, if you do this a lot, I don't want to bother you, but if I'm hesitant, uh, let them realize that and it's very scary because they can't tell what's happening, so Learning to be confident is something that requires a lot of practice and I'm still not used to it with many animals. and don't hesitate, just go for it and be ready to get the bite, the anticipation is always worse than the actual bite, assuming you're not working with something poisonous or something huge that I love to do and will probably do now, but she could run is just put her on my desk like next to my keyboard like right next to my arm while I'm typing and just let her sit there for a couple of hours like I don't care about having it outside for too long when I'm trying to

tame

it.

I do it while I amphysically.possible again, I like the head pads, I like to go up to the nose and they also pull out their beard, as you can see it's usually a little flat, but they try to look huge and scary, but that makes them look cuter. The joke's on you, it's not working, so I guess it's been about 30 minutes now and we're still making progress. I'm going to go ahead and get on my desk in probably 10 minutes and see how long it stays. Hopefully this is interesting. She is the craziest dragon we have right now and I hope to continue showing her to Prague.

I guess I don't know if she could have sold herself. I don't remember in any way. We are always very clear if the dragon is not manageable. We are so obvious. that on the site and a lot of people like to target them because they like to do the same thing I do, work with them this way, but I still work as much as I can on them before they ship. and sometimes we will wait completely before they do so so that they are calm and friendly because that is usually more attractive to people what is your preference?

Do you like working with crazy animals? Do you like to look for those that feel comfortable? You can just enjoy your time with it, let me know in the comments and I'll try to read them, maybe probably not. I'll read them so you can head over to emeraldscales.com if there's anything on the site. Hopefully we'll try to list things every Tuesday, but it's not a perfect science. You can follow Esmeralda on Instagram to see new animals as soon as they are posted. You can activate notifications on Instagram for that account, but this is it. Unfortunately I can't show you an exact transformation in this video but that's why another part would be great and I'll try to do the same with future animals that need it if you're interested in more videos like blah.

Blah blah blah I'm tired of talking you know what I'm saying just bye hey look at that closed mouth oh yeah this is scary go away girl but that's what I'm talking about that's how I feel I do which you should especially see. For the first official day of doing this, I'd say it's gone pretty well, wait, that's right, yeah, so you can see a pretty big difference. It's been 35 to 40 minutes and, mouth closed, relaxed, arms just kind. from hanging on the lateral muscles are not at all tense at this moment the breathing is slowing down the beard is pushed back oh and then I looked and I scared her but that's okay still it's certainly good progress.