I am proud to announce that I think Dexter has finally grown out of his nippy attack phase!!
About a month ago I would get bit by him almost daily, usually him latching on which was never fun and I have some nice battle wounds from him.
We took a lot of time working on us being reasonable together. I tried many things and it seems the one that worked the best was me asking "step up?" and if he picked up his foot I would pick him up if not I would leave him alone.
I use to also have huge problems getting him to go back to his cage and finally he's being reasonable with that as well.
I don't think I'm 100% out of the woods since he's a greenie and they are just "opinionated" but I'm really happy that I haven't been bitten by him in almost a month.
About a month ago I would get bit by him almost daily, usually him latching on which was never fun and I have some nice battle wounds from him.
We took a lot of time working on us being reasonable together. I tried many things and it seems the one that worked the best was me asking "step up?" and if he picked up his foot I would pick him up if not I would leave him alone.
I use to also have huge problems getting him to go back to his cage and finally he's being reasonable with that as well.
I don't think I'm 100% out of the woods since he's a greenie and they are just "opinionated" but I'm really happy that I haven't been bitten by him in almost a month.