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I think I have made a final choice.

Back home home, in north Louisiana, I have two Tyrannosaurus Rex's. A 1.1 pair, purple and orange, respectively. Although, admittedly, they did live and evolve on the planet for 3 million years (68 million to 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous), my pair has been line-bred for temperament for 10 generations.
Now they are tame as pussy cats. They roll and tumble with my nieces and nephews, like little lambs.
My mother is very skeptical, however, and never lets the kids out to play with Billy Bob Rex and Sally Jo Rex, without supervision.
But she is so silly.
She just does not understand the simple principles of line-breeding and selective breeding for temperament and personality traits.
That is my stepdad there in blue with their mom (Ruby Sue Rex) and two clutchmates.
 

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LOL Eric!
I talked to the breeder I am getting a light colored pair. I am sending a 20% deposit on monday! He says his adults are very tame. He handles them a lot so they are pretty docile!
 
Maize411 said:
So I have a question..which is a little off topic...but at the same time..on topic..The whole theory on selective breeding based on temperment (for example taking a male RR that has an unusually good disposition and a female that also isn't that bad and breeding them in hopes that their offspring have the same mental state as them)...Has this actually been proven? To me this really doesn't sound like something that science can definitely say happens..I highly doubt that a mental state can be passed down to offspring..unless..of course the mental state is something genetically or atomically (is this even a word?? lol) occuring within the brain..then I guess that would be passable to the next generation..but I guess my main question is...can anyone back this up?
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The breeder paired his Normal Male to his Albino Female. They both are as he describes more docile than his corns. He is an asian rat guy and he says the negative reputation they get is because up until a few years ago Asian rats were not captive bred.
 
vetusvates said:
Back home home, in north Louisiana, I have two Tyrannosaurus Rex's. A 1.1 pair, purple and orange, respectively. Although, admittedly, they did live and evolve on the planet for 3 million years (68 million to 65 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous), my pair has been line-bred for temperament for 10 generations.
Now they are tame as pussy cats. They roll and tumble with my nieces and nephews, like little lambs.
My mother is very skeptical, however, and never lets the kids out to play with Billy Bob Rex and Sally Jo Rex, without supervision.
But she is so silly.
She just does not understand the simple principles of line-breeding and selective breeding for temperament and personality traits.
That is my stepdad there in blue with their mom (Ruby Sue Rex) and two clutchmates.
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LOL, Eric!! Make sure to put me down for a pair next breeding season! Gotta have a REX!
 
Maize411 said:
I guess that's true..I knew it worked in dogs and even works within people..but with reptiles..I don't know..for some reason I just thought that rule didn't really apply..to me a snake is a snake and one has just as much of a risk of biting you as any other snake..I don't know why I thought this was different in the reptile world.but oh well..I learned something new today :)
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With reptiles, I think we are able to control things like their level of fear and flightiness, however, I think it would be foolish to assume that we will be able to domesticate them in the manner of dogs or horses.

Unless we're talking about Eric's t-rexes, of course. ;)
 
Emily1188 said:
With reptiles, I think we are able to control things like their level of fear and flightiness, however, I think it would be foolish to assume that we will be able to domesticate them in the manner of dogs or horses.

Unless we're talking about Eric's t-rexes, of course. ;)
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Well, remember that the domestication of dogs took place over a VERY long time. Eric's Rexes, of course, have been undergoing the domestication process for many generations.

In the pet trade, reptiles are still fairly new compared to most other animals available. I think that, in time, we could come to domesticate reptiles. But it's going to take a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time.
 
RobbiesCornField said:
Well, remember that the domestication of dogs took place over a VERY long time. Eric's Rexes, of course, have been undergoing the domestication process for many generations.

In the pet trade, reptiles are still fairly new compared to most other animals available. I think that, in time, we could come to domesticate reptiles. But it's going to take a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time.
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....how long will it take, Robbie?

:sidestep:

:nyah:
 
Just throwin this out there, but I have read aboiut how incubating at different temperatures can affect hatchling temperament. I dunno I thought it was interesting has anyone else heard of that?
 
The_Thunderer said:
LOL, Eric!! Make sure to put me down for a pair next breeding season! Gotta have a REX!
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Hatchlings are usually pounding F/T calves, sheep, and goats by the third week. Sometimes I catch the odd picky feeder eyeballing one of my nephews, so I go out to the pasture to get him a live calf. Oooohhhhh.....the carnage. You just have to learn to keep your hands out of the way.
NOTE : the purple ones, like my Billy Bob, have been suggested to be prone to occasionally throw a clutch of kinks.
 
vetusvates said:
Hatchlings are usually pounding F/T calves, sheep, and goats by the third week. Sometimes I catch the odd picky feeder eyeballing one of my nephews, so I go out to the pasture to get him a live calf. Oooohhhhh.....the carnage. You just have to learn to keep your hands out of the way.
NOTE : the purple ones, like my Billy Bob, have been suggested to be prone to occasionally throw a clutch of kinks.
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Do you use an UTH or just heat the whole stadium.
Oh...That right, no co-habitation. My bad. :laugh:
 
vetusvates said:
Hatchlings are usually pounding F/T calves, sheep, and goats by the third week. Sometimes I catch the odd picky feeder eyeballing one of my nephews, so I go out to the pasture to get him a live calf. Oooohhhhh.....the carnage. You just have to learn to keep your hands out of the way.
NOTE : the purple ones, like my Billy Bob, have been suggested to be prone to occasionally throw a clutch of kinks.
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:roflmao:
You mean my experience with a VBB and a nervous LTR won't prepare me for handling a Rex? :laugh:

Lennycorn said:
Do you use an UTH or just heat the whole stadium.
Oh...That right, no co-habitation. My bad. :laugh:
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Well, I have a friend who PLAYS in UoP stadium, so no problem with housing. I'll just get a divider. Bills to cool down the stadium in Summer are gonna be a killer...
 
Lenny your post proves your ignorance! Don't you know that Rex's need full spectrum lighting! Silly little man
 
See my friend bought one at a show and his does a lot better on ful spectrum lighting. I mean they are diurnal and must have full spectrum. Eric I feed mine live because live is so much fun to watch!
 
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