Leave the snake be. Don't. Take. Her. Out. At all! For at least a week, or until she starts eating. She is stressed! She just went from her nice lil tub at the breeders to a car ride to a show to another car ride to this strange new tank and this strange new person keeps taking her out and she doesn't know what to do. For all she knows you could be getting ready to eat her!



It's hard to do but just Leave Her Alone! Ball Pythons are great, wonderful, docile snakes with marvelous temperments (90% of the time), but they do need plenty of time to settle in, destress, and get used to their new environment.



Best way to tell how the snake is doing - she's eating regularly and shedding in one piece. At the least, don't start taking her out and playing with her until she's eating regularly. This could be six weeks from now, it could be next week. The snake will let you know.



~jenny
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1.2.2 normal ball pythons (Cindy, Darwin, Periscope, and dah bebbies)

0.2 rescue chinese water dragons (Yoni and Linga)

1.0 rex rat (Scurvy)

1.0 gerbil (Yerbul)

0.1 mice (Cute Girl Mousy)

0.1 bunny (Spazz)

1.1 betta fishes (Vicious and Killer)

2.2 great danes (Shasta, Odysseus, Merlot, and Watson)

1.0 fat fuzzy mutt (Smokey)

1.1 cats (Thidwick and Turtle)

3.0 horses (Buddy, Sam, and Scout)

1.0 goat (Billy Jack)

0.0.1 chupacabra (it ate our chickens)



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