I feel like this got a little messed up over posts... I never said disinfect your cages every day! :P
I said that I disinfect once a week, which happens to be the day that the snakes go potty (yes. they seem to have a bathroom schedule! It is very rare for all of my snakes to not "go" on the same day.) I disinfect water bowls once a week too.
I change my bedding once a week.
Now- if one of the snakes happens to go potty off schedule, I will change bedding and disinfect on that day for them.

Some of you may disagree, but I don't think once a week is fanatical at all.
I remember happy hillbilly talking about using soap and water. Well... soap tends to kill germs, so I would consider that to be disinfecting.

Also... my snakes seem to appreciate the interaction. They aren't scared at all. They come out all exploring-like with their heads up and flicking tounges. They don't ever struggle to get away.... they just lazily explore. All of my lizards are the same way. However, I DO handle my snakes often other than cleaning, so maybe that is why they aren't fearful.
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~Sara~
4 Leopard Geckos
3 ball pythons
1.0 Black-lined plated lizard (Lizzy Butt)
0.1 Burmese Python (Pixil)
7 Rats
1.1 Gerbils
1.1 Dogs (Ozzie and Mandy)
0.1 Cat (Isis)
0.0.1 Synodontis Catfish (Big Spotty Fish)
0.1 Convict Cichlid
0.0.1 blood parrot cichlid
0.0.1 African Featherfin Catfish

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