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#2088251
Cheezburger
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How do you toilet train them? 
I read here that someone toilet trained thier uro? How do you do that?
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10/24/09 03:43pm
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#2088264
URO LOVER
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Message To: Cheezburger In reference to Message Id: 2088251
How do you toilet train them?
can u teach them how to read???? i would like mine to read for me
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10/24/09 04:25pm
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#2088272
Sugar Snap Pea
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Message To: URO LOVER In reference to Message Id: 2088264
How do you toilet train them?
Me too! Wouldn’t you like to teach them, not only to read but to read your future in tarot cards? OMG that would be awesome! The world’s first tarot reading uro! :p
Actually though... toilet training might sound weird, but some toilet training has been happening, even if it wasn’t done deliberately. If you’re perfectly happy letting your uro poop anywhere, everywhere, that’s your call. I like my pets (and yes, I am going to call my uro a pet) to be toilet trained and if you took the time to watch, understand, persuade and train, you might be very surprised by the results. Good luck, and may you have a uro that is friendly, smart and has taken the time to understand what he can of humans too while y’all try to get along.
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10/24/09 04:43pm
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#2088279
Cheezburger
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Message To: URO LOVER In reference to Message Id: 2088264
How do you toilet train them?
why would you want them to read for you??
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10/24/09 05:02pm
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#2088290
Mbwrink
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Message To: Cheezburger In reference to Message Id: 2088279
How do you toilet train them?
He is being facetious as well as sarcastic because he doesn’t believe Sugar Snap Pea has gotten hers to use the same spot. The first thing I noticed compared to my other lizards was that it didn’t care where it left its food scattering it. The second was that it was using the same part of the enclosure to defecate. When I scooped it out once removing not only the pellets but where fluid had congealed the sand it returned to the spot the next day and wandered around it for several minutes and didn’t go, when it had gone everyday. The next day it returned to the spot and went and has gone there every day whereby I have been careful only to remove the pellets. Its not impossible that the animal recognizes its own scent from its waste and reuses the spot. The first cage turnover early next month I plan on leaving a pellet and or sand used from that spot to see if he continues using it. I had along time ago read on a forum that Tegu users noticed something similar with some tegus, so I don’t rule this out.
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10/24/09 06:16pm
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#2088438
Datsunissan28
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Message To: Mbwrink In reference to Message Id: 2088290
How do you toilet train them?
Leopard geckos tend to defecate in the same spot, even when you have multiple geckos in the same enclosure. When I moved them into their new enclosure I put a small piece of urates in the front corner of the cool side and they have defecated only there for several months now.
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10/25/09 08:41am
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Mbwrink
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Message To: Datsunissan28 In reference to Message Id: 2088438
How do you toilet train them?
I got some feedback from others on the Uromastyx list on Yahoo. One individual with multiple Uros told me that of the seven, four consitently used the same spot and she had used scenting the area to keep them using it. However the other 3 displyed no tendency from the begining to use any spot consistently and had resisted any attempts to get them to use it.
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10/26/09 02:08am
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