This is going to open up the whole human emotion discussion but do you think it's possible for them to have good/bad memories?
Dexter refuses to eat out of my hand. She will occasionally eat a hornworm if my hand is completely flat but I can't dangle something in front of her and have her eat it. Whenever I try she straightens her front legs, stretches her head up and backs up fast with this scared look on her face. Almost like I offered her poison! I've tried to hand feed her out of her tank and I get the same reaction. I was trying to figure out when this all started with her. I think it all started the last time she bit me. I was trying to feed her a strawberry and I didn't move my hand away fast enough and she got my finger so hard it bled and swelled up. So I wondered if that could possibly be the reason she doesn't do it.
Dexter refuses to eat out of my hand. She will occasionally eat a hornworm if my hand is completely flat but I can't dangle something in front of her and have her eat it. Whenever I try she straightens her front legs, stretches her head up and backs up fast with this scared look on her face. Almost like I offered her poison! I've tried to hand feed her out of her tank and I get the same reaction. I was trying to figure out when this all started with her. I think it all started the last time she bit me. I was trying to feed her a strawberry and I didn't move my hand away fast enough and she got my finger so hard it bled and swelled up. So I wondered if that could possibly be the reason she doesn't do it.