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Laci
at Fri Aug 22 04:08:36 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Laci ]
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Here are ours. Just things that we thought MIGHT work, and were easy enough to implement for experimentation. One of the things we do, and I think it is working, to some extent, is that when we feed, we only put the prey in with the snake after we have turned the lights down. Now, this doesn't mean that we are opening the cage of a 15 foot burm in the complete dark, waiting for him to ambush us . We leave a low wattage bulb on in the background, and it gives us enough light to see where the burm is, and etc. I think it is working to the point that our Burms now get "excited" whenever we start to open the doors and the lights are "dark". Conversely, they are mellow when we open them with the lights on, and just want to come out to play (or just look at us, lol).
Of course, during the typing of this, I realized that "training" them to this type of behavior could be a very bad thing if there was ever a power outage and we needed to get them out. But, you win some, you lose some! We will probably have to rethink this behavior :-S
Does anyone else do anything like this?
Marcy
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 Does everyone have "habits" for encouraging safe snake behavior?....more... - Laci, Fri Aug 22 04:08:36 2003 
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