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Post by SurvivorSteph on Dec 15, 2003 0:43:59 GMT -8
This little green s*@%! He WAS potty-trained. He used to go every morning in the bathtub. This past week he's flat REFUSED. I've been home sick most of the week, and I even tried putting him in the tub several times.
He will WAIT until I take him out and put him back into his enclosure to go! Then I have to remove everything and clean it! ARGH!!
Any theories? Stubbornness... climate changes... breading season... response to my hormonal changes or illness or medication change?
I'd love ALL opinions and insight... It's SO much easier to clean the tub every day than it is to clean his enclosure!
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Post by Shaun on Dec 15, 2003 5:57:14 GMT -8
How long do you leave him in for? I could of sworn they couldn't resist warm water forever.
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Post by dominick on Dec 15, 2003 17:17:38 GMT -8
Hi Steph-
All of the above!! You have been home (schedule change), there is a change of season (schedule change), it IS breeding season (schedule change), Hormonal changes? (well, that's a constant, no change there, lol). ;D
For some reason, periodically through maturing, they change where they want to do business.
Rex poop on us the first few months (a feable attempt to get us to put him back down), then in his enclosure almost everyday (always just after we cleaned it), the bathtub only when he was backed-up and we forced the issue (otherwise, splat right on the bath mat just fresh out of the tub), outside in the grass for most summers, and then this year, tree-bombs!
Now, he seems to have settled into a secluded corner of the kitchen, and always on the few square inches where he moves the newspapers out of the way to expose the floor. He will even wiggle his big butt under the cabinet toekick to poop on that clean floor! LMAO
My guess, is the change in schedule for you has caused him to react this way.
Try putting a pan of warm water in the tank just after cleaning it, maybe he'll get the picture.
Good Luck.
Hope you feel better soon!
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Post by Tesa on Dec 16, 2003 5:37:30 GMT -8
Dom! Back off the hormonal changes BUB! You are out numbered! ;D
Steph,
Who knows about these lil green brats!?!
They do WHAT they want , WHEN they want, and they DEFY us to figure out why we are receiving the punishment!
I'd say Dom's suggestion is great, but I'm still mad at him about the hormone comment. ;D
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Post by Lyn on Dec 16, 2003 7:03:53 GMT -8
Yea, I wish I was there to give Dom a whack on the back of the head for that comment too....Sheesh. we women never get a break here....lol.....Lyn
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Post by dominick on Dec 16, 2003 11:17:06 GMT -8
**Ducking to avoid all the flying hormones**  ;D Amazing, even over the internet the hormonal effects are felt!! |
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Post by SurvivorSteph on Dec 16, 2003 23:16:43 GMT -8
You're lucky I was out of town when you first made that post, Dom! It sounds like you were pretty much taken care of. But I think you know better than to mess with a hormonal Portugee!! lol I've thought about putting a cat box with water in his enclosure. If things don't get better this week, I'll definately do it. Tesa and Lyn... thanks for having my back!  |
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Post by Tesa on Dec 17, 2003 4:44:54 GMT -8
Steph, Thrasher has a litter box in her house and it works great. Kind of a pain in the butt sometimes to clean cause she poops twice a day, but not nearly as much of a pain as disinfecting the bathtub. I used to tub her every day like you do Gil. Now she goes in the tub if I put her there, and the litterbox if I don't.
Let me add, just in case someone reads this that doesn't know any better....
There is water in the litterbox, NOT litter.
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Post by SurvivorSteph on Dec 18, 2003 0:07:05 GMT -8
I'm liking that idea more and more, Tesa. At least cleaning a cat box will be easier than removing ALL the cage furniture and the cage carpet (felt) out and washing it every day.  |
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Post by Tesa on Dec 18, 2003 6:56:15 GMT -8
Doesn't hurt to try  |
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Post by SurvivorSteph on Dec 20, 2003 1:36:22 GMT -8
Tomorrow Gil gets a cat box in his enclosure. My silly husband asked me why I thought he'd go in there. He thought I'd put it in empty. The light bulb went on when I explained there'd be water in it. Oh his behalf he was exhausted... our 64 Tbird lost a tranny hose, we were 30 minutes from home, at a busy intersection in POURING rain.  But my McGyver got it fixed and we still managed to get most of the Christmas shopping done! |
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Post by Tesa on Dec 20, 2003 7:15:33 GMT -8
Don't ya just love McGyvering fellas??
Nasty weather to have that happen in, but at least it ended well.....
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Post by les on Dec 21, 2003 8:29:26 GMT -8
I'm really lucky because Gromit (who is now 5 and 1/2) has always used a water-filled cat tray in his viv, from day one. I have never had any mess to clean up either inside or outside his viv. Even when he is free-roaming he goes back into his viv, uses his tray and then comes out again. Bless him. ;D
So easy to clean out too......just lift it out, tip it down our toilet, disinfect and rinse, refill it with a bucket of water and replace.
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Post by SurvivorSteph on Dec 21, 2003 10:38:34 GMT -8
Yes, les, but we all know that Gromit is THE MOST GIFTED iguana on earth! If he understands 7 phrases and even plays peek a boo... then he'd better be potty trained!! lol
(I want you know know that I'm thoroughly impressed by him... I'd love to meet him someday)
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Post by les on Dec 21, 2003 11:14:33 GMT -8
Unfortunately though, Steph.......although I can take the credit for his responding to the 7 commands, he was potty trained when he first arrived here....so that particular 'talent' is just a bonus. I also found this old photo that was taken a couple of years ago. It was taken on an ordinary camera and then scanned ......hence the poor colour. And I can take no credit for his tree-climbing abilities either.  |
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But my McGyver got it fixed and we still managed to get most of the Christmas shopping done!