I may have accidentally trained my dragon

[Honeybadger]

Lizz have been insisting on pooping on my desk during her time out lately, so I have been plopping her on an empty plate every time she have made any move to poop. When she walked over to a plate, stood on it, looked me in the eye and pooped on it today, I almost lost it.
Easy cleanup though

 

[BrookeE]

hahahaha that sounds about right! Gotta love that. mine was waiting until she got to go outside to poop for a long time and i totally loved that. zero clean up. lol. theyre much smarter than people give them credit for.

 

[BeardedHippy]

5 times out of 10 mine poops on her veggies....she must really hate her veggies.

 

[Honeybadger]

She hates a dirty cage, if she have to poop in her cage she will stare at with discust it until it's removed, so her sulution is to poop on my desk or in the bath. Also I know she is trainable, I have already trained her to come on command That took a week and half a box of freeze dried crickets (I know they are no good for her, but she loves them and will do anything for them, so they are training only snacks.)

 

[Honeybadger]

BeardedHippy Lizz used to poop in her waterbowl, until I realised she had no use for it and removed it at least. I think the bowls provide set areas for pooping that is easily recognised.

 

[PatsyB]

My girl Dexter will only go in a bath. If it's been awhile and she really has to go, she will dance around her tank with this urgent look and thats when I know I have to take her to the tub!

 

[Honeybadger]

Oh yea the poop dance, I have also noticed the vent looking swollen right before she has to poop. problem is that she don't alway poop in the bath, and since I don't have a bathtub but a plastic container for her to swim in, her pooping in the bath is way more work.

 

[PatsyB]

I always notice the tail curve when they are about to go!

 

[Twinkie13]

Yep.....my dude has pooped ONCE in his enclosure since February.
He waits for the bath.
It's great.

Y'all think they dislike pooping in the enclosure? Or it differ dragon to dragon?

 

[Honeybadger]

I think it may vary from dragon to dragon, Lizz have shown great distaste for her own poop since we got her. She have "trapped herself" several times by pooping and then not being willing to cross the poop to get back to basking.
But other dragons I have heard of don't have that issue at all.

 

[Hdrydr31]

Both of mine refuse to poop in their tanks thank goodness!! Both of mine hold out for their bath time or while I have them outside