I Trained My Crested Gecko To Come When Called!

Today I wanted to talk about how I trained my Crested gecko to come when called.
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[@capnspicy5565]

I trained mine to chase the mailman and fetch beers

[@Sostic]

What was I thinking, that sounds even better!

[@Rattlesnake211]

Lol

[@kellymckenzie5686]

That was pretty cool! I’m still working on getting mine to not run away when I open her cage 😂

[@mang3139]

Same

[@omara323]

@@mang3139how’s that goin i’m in the same spot

[@Mr.Nobody653]

I taught my leopard gecko to bark when someone was at the door.

[@-BuzzyBee-]

😂😂😂😂

[@the_good_gecko]

That's very interesting. Some of my geckos comes only when I have bugs to lure them. I do have a girl that comes out to me when she feels like it. Is this an April fools joke?

[@Sostic]

Maybe

[@kalenhouse]

Lmao! You don't know Sam lol.

[@Aidanjacksonkightly_reptiles]

You should try and make a trigger noise like a whistle to call them over and see if the speed of the response changes. Works really well with smart animals like monitors keeping in mind that lizards have a really hard time hearing low pitched noises so they struggle to hear alot of the sounds we make just by talking.

[@Aidanjacksonkightly_reptiles]

Still really cool to get that behaviour from an animal as... intellectually challenged as a gecko. Do you reward him when he does this?

[@Sostic]

@@Aidanjacksonkightly_reptiles This was just for April fool's, he was following because I smelled like females

[@Aidanjacksonkightly_reptiles]

@@Sostic OH lol I was a bit sus when you said you were selectively breeding for intelligence 😂 i'm Australian so my April fools is a bit earlier than your's lmao

[@Sostic]

@@Aidanjacksonkightly_reptiles I never thought of that 😂

[@dessence27]

I talk to mine everyday. I sit by his tank and talk to him and play music (sometimes). My crestie knows: food, honey, watermelon, fresh food, are you hungry, come down, where are you/there you are, "S'mores" bc that's his name lol. I'm training mine to come as well when I call as well. And he's learning bugs, hunting, "friend" and "safe".

[@puddlebarf]

Thats so awesome! Mine knows sit and shake

[@Future0630]

Halfway through the video I was like, wait today is April first.

[@noodle-]

Thats so cool! Mine is a lawyer

[@Sostic]

That's awesome!

[@mollymilburn]

That's so cool! Mine is actually running for President!

[@chelseaashley898]

I trained most of my collection to ship themselves a few years back.. but now hopefully starting a fresh this year with crested geckos 🦎

[@Sostic]

That's awesome! I need to try that one

[@chelseaashley898]

@@Sostic it really works a treat lol 😂

[@JiggaSchlatt]

Does it count if I realized less than 50% deep into the vid🗿😭 This the second year in a row too😂

[@kalenhouse]

Sam you must be using the cresty brain food with your pangea. I've used it for about a year now and most of my cresties are smart as a door nail!

[@Squibble5556]

THATS SO COOL!!!!

[@pikagirl8224]

Me finding this video years later watching the gecko come and thinking how is that proof? He likely has a treat in his hand. Then I read something about April fools in the comments and find out this was posted on April 1st. Yep, that checks out. lol

[@mang3139]

Awesome!

[@prestigenoob6355]

Very pretty gecko

[@kseniyakupsh9432]

That’s sooo cool and sooooooooooo expressive!!!!! Keep up the good work 😁

[@silurtenr.3309]

U got me 😂

[@barbhelle5481]

Mine are very active babies. Diamond did great.

[@Jrgillustrates]

This is interesting. Can we help them evolve smarter? This is exactly the video I searched for. My crested who’s a girl I started tapping on the rim on the tank to get her to come then I’ll show her the meal worm. I been trying to build trust between us. I think she came with some trauma from petco. It’s been working. My question was how much thought do they have because I think she connected that to the moment right before that to the food which I hoped she would. I’m gonna try to do other things throughout the years. But I am curious to how smart they are and can be

[@pettime2785]

WOW that is so cool i whish my gecko wood do that but he's not vary smart lol but i love him

[@nikki54X22]

Gecko doing fetch April 1st, 2023

[@Zilakit]

This was super interesting! I was lucky enough that my first gecko is pretty intelligent and its exciting to see what possibilities exist with more docile/trainable geckos. :) Would you be able to share what you do to help teach them to come when called or other social training tips?

[@Zilakit]

Mine is still a juvenile and I'd like to do more intentional training while they're still young, but I'm only used to mammals and not sure what training methods would be best to try for geckos?

[@petaagainstanimalabuse6450]

He uses LIVE BUGS

[@Purplesquigglystripe]

I’ve seen people do target training with leopard geckos. They train them just like you would with a dog using a clicker

[@mightybean3656]

thought it was reptiliatus when i read the title lmao

[@JS-hf1qg]

April fools joke this year again 😂

[@RakoonActivities]

Tryna get cows to follow your wheat in minecraft b like

[@cb7873]

My leo will come when you call him, my crested is still timid and shy.

[@tyicbranch2734]

That's pretty impressive buddy and my crested gecko I got a year ago at 1 month the day I got it after about 10 minutes it slowly walked out the tub on my hand and i managed to feed it and it was really cam I was surprised its been a wonderful experience but my girlfriend got a crested gecko it's so different ovisly I look after it so it's getting the same care and handling since I got my gecko but it took it basically a year to warm up to me it just all ways ran away if I was a threat but it eventually released that its safe

[@BunnyDragon-k5e]

How were you able to determine which crested gecko was intelligent? Do you shine a light through the head and check the brain size? Genuine question 😂

[@mpk6664]

The worst part of this video is that you didn't even say bless you after he sneezed.

[@Sostic]

How rude of me

[@osiriswindsor1099]

I’m trying to get mine to stop biting me and running away

[@Josh-bu4zx]

My guess is you used insects to lure him ; )

[@petaagainstanimalabuse6450]

Lol what did you use CRICKETS, WORMS, OR DUBIAS ?????

[@Sostic]

Didn't have to use any 😁

[@0011-g3q]

BRO STOP MINE CAME OVER AND IS ON MY PHONE OMG WTF😂😂

[@0011-g3q]

I know it’s a joke but I didn’t think it would actually work. I guess my gecko likes ur voice or something lol

[@brainsreptiles]

You can keep crested geckos and let alone train them

[@mbspider687]

I have young female, and when I do small finger move, she do the same... closer and closer then jump to attack. Easy to do when nobody see what is behind the camera, maybe food? Don't belive

[@ashlee730]

How did you initially get him to do this?

[@Sostic]

Lots of hard work training him to come to my voice 😉

[@ashlee730]

@@Sostic did you use any kind of food incentive? I’ve trained dogs and horses but never tried with a reptile.

[@Sostic]

@@ashlee730 he thought I was a female, I didn't have any food during this

[@ashlee730]

@@Sostic ahhh ok I see the incentive for him now haha! 🤣

[@ThatBritishGuyArk]

What you recording with ?

[@Sostic]

Just my cell phone

[@tyicbranch2734]

is it normal that my crested gecko is 16 grams at a year old I've did my research for a long time and I've learned a bunch of things out of experience of having a crested gecko it eats water melon pangea it only eats that one and I feed it 2 crickets twice a week because the warm weather makes its food digest faster and I use calseum powder on the crickets and I have a 30x30x60 viverum it's extremely active little guy and do you think that the cold weather kinda stopped its growth before because in the last 3 months its starting to grow faster since the warm weather and sorry for the long message I just don't understand because I'm doing nothing wrong I don't think

[@Sostic]

Nope sounds like you're doing pretty good to me

[@tyicbranch2734]

And one more thing I managed to get my crested gecko to eat meal worms at 3 months old then crickets after 4 month's is it just a slow grower or is something wrong

[@tyicbranch2734]

Do you think it's just a slow grower I've learned so much from your videos but some things you just have to experience on your own when having a crested gecko unexpected things like sadly the day I noticed I hade little black insects mites I think in my crested viverum not shore why or if it was mites I just made a back up viverum and fully cleaned my viverum out and cleaned ev

[@AmandaPaige71]

🤣🤣🤣

[@roarxlyfay_the_panda5554]

ypooo