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RE: New to Pituophis

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Posted by: Poomwah at Sun Jan 12 15:26:11 2014  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Poomwah ]  
   

I would suggest you start with a young specimen, so you can get it used to being handled. To top it off, when they are young, and they try to act all big and bad puffing up and hissing, they look SO funny :]

That way she hopefully won't be as apprehensive about a snake that MIGHT have an attitude.

And the big thing to remember is, that most captive bred pits are fine while being handled. The ones that have attitudes usually have an attitude while they are in the cage, and more often than not, its "all talk". The easy solution would be for you to get the snake out of the enclosure, let it calm down, then let her handle it.


   

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