Question regarding urination ...when out of enclosure.

Hockeymom

Well first of all Deuce is ding great and growing fast!
He's keeping the name Deuce, nothing else seemed to fit him...go figure.
Anyways Deuce seems to like spending time outside his enclosure, I take him out when I have time and he likes to explore my bed, he digs under the pillows, and the comforter. He usually comes out for his "bed excursions" late morning early afternoon. A couple hours after he has eatten his rat fuzzy and done his business. BUT today he peed on my bed. We were just hanging out watching TV and he walked up next to me streached out a bit and peed on my bed. OK that's not cool...I thought that once they did their business for the day they were done. He had only been out about 20 minutes, and nothing scared him.
Is this something normal for Tegu's? Can he be "House trained"?
Thanks for any info or ideas.
Becky
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tupinambis · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:06 pm Post subject:

Sigh.....urination is a natural process in all animals. Human beings are one of the few organisms (anurans, canids and felines being the obvious others) that have managed to learn to override the body's natural default reflex to "void the bladder" when a certain capacity has been reached. Ever raise a child, or seen someone else do so? Remember how long it took to pottytrain them? And that was with an organism that actually understood your language. I do think tegus possess a rather elevated intelligence for an average reptile, but to actually train them in this regard is a rather large challenge, something I don't think is likely. As Teiidae stated, there are methods you can go to to try to pre-empt such events, but I think you'll just have to settle with the idea that unlike the dog, these guys most likely will not ever "wait to be let out". If nature calls, they'll answer.

drfish · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 5:01 am Post subject:

Don't be under the impression that dogs always get let out.

Mine do it just for a giggle I think. Little F*%&ers

When i'm drunk, even I have accidents, and i'm supposed to be intelligent.

tegulevi · Respected Member Joined: Mar 10, 2005 Posts: 489

actually my male does wait to get out of his tank before doing his business. very rarely will he go in his tank. it kinda sucks lol

Neuro · Member Joined: Aug 03, 2005 Posts: 35

Do you have dogs? i have my colombians in my bedroom, they roam free in the room, have their basking spot, doggy bed under my bed and some other stuff to make them confortable, they usually pee in the floor, but if i let the dog come to the bedroom it seems that they dont like the odor of the dog and go in a rant of pee

(also the dog trys to mark his spot in the places where they pee, and the dog its trained to do it outside), the dog and the tegus are all males.

They also do it when they feel sick, i dont think that thats a natural behaviour but mine do it.
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dempcat · Member Joined: Sep 20, 2005 Posts: 19

Hockeymom · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:16 am Post subject:

Hi Guys - Thanks for all the help and colorful.... explanations. I guess I was just under the impresstion that they were more like a dog and were trainable in this area. Peeing and pooping on carpets, and beds in our home is not acceptable, however I realize accidents can and will happen.
I was told basically that they do their business once a day, put them in the tub with water they do their business after that they are done for the day. Now obviously if you feed them a quantity of food now their body will have to digest it and move it thru the body and they will have to go again.

So I guess it's about learning their bodies schedule.

For example my son has a senegal parrot named Kiwi, anyways since smaller parrots like Kiwi do their business frequently. We know that she will do so about every 15 minutes, so we take her off of her cage after she has done her bossiness and put her back on her cage in 15 minutes, she again does her business almost immediately and is ready to get back on our shoulder for another 15 minutes.

I am sure if the bird can be manipulated in this manner surly Deuce can be manipulated in the same way, I hope. Cross your fingers we'll see how it goes.

Thanks again
Becky
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tegulevi · Respected Member Joined: Mar 10, 2005 Posts: 489

for months my male went at the same time every day like clockwork. try to observe his favorite time and go with that

YorkOC · Valued Member Joined: Oct 09, 2005 Posts: 101

Yeah it sucks mine is having that same "problem" I call it. He has pissed the last 2 times I took him out in like 2 weeks. Before it was after I feed him which is understandable but I feed him yesterday I saw the business in the tank, took him out for like 5-10 min to get out of his enclosure and he did it on the couich. He never did this when he was in his 60gal rep tank but since I moved him to the enclosure like 2 weeks ago he has done his thing twice. I will for sure make an effort to soak him in the tub though. Last time I did that he did his thing so I would rather it be in tub and not the couch. IT not fun to clean up... I've already had enough time with the damn puppy and cleaning up its messes.

YorkOC · Valued Member Joined: Oct 09, 2005 Posts: 101

Yeah it sucks mine is having that same "problem" I call it. He has pissed the last 2 times I took him out in like 2 weeks. Before it was after I feed him which is understandable but I feed him yesterday I saw the business in the tank, took him out for like 5-10 min to get out of his enclosure and he did it on the couich. He never did this when he was in his 60gal rep tank but since I moved him to the enclosure like 2 weeks ago he has done his thing twice. I will for sure make an effort to soak him in the tub though. Last time I did that he did his thing so I would rather it be in tub and not the couch. IT not fun to clean up... I've already had enough time with the damn puppy and cleaning up its messes.