I feel it's always a good idea to handle your snakes regularly. A snake that sees a hand only at feeding time will become "conditioned" to associate the hand with food and will inevitably wind up striking at some point in a feeding response. That could happen with even the most docile snake.

All but the most nervous babies will settle down after a few minutes of being held. Try to handle them once a week other then feeding time and you really should be fine.
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• Question about Honduran behavior - Rob Lewis, Sat Feb 2 07:43:23 2008
• RE: Question about Honduran behavior - antr1, Sat Feb 2 08:49:58 2008
• RE: Question about Honduran behavior - Rob Lewis, Sat Feb 2 10:18:21 2008
• RE: Question about Honduran behavior - Patton, Sat Feb 2 12:15:49 2008
• RE: Question about Honduran behavior - antr1, Sat Feb 2 20:22:53 2008
• RE: Question about Honduran behavior - Patton, Sat Feb 2 22:41:54 2008
• RE: Question about Honduran behavior - exposito, Sat Feb 2 09:57:14 2008
• RE: Question about Honduran behavior - Rob Lewis, Sat Feb 2 10:06:17 2008
• Hey Joe... - cn013, Sat Feb 2 11:23:03 2008
• RE: Hey Joe... - exposito, Sat Feb 2 13:33:48 2008
• RE: Hey Joe... - exposito, Sat Feb 2 13:37:05 2008
• RE: Question about Honduran behavior - tspuckler, Sat Feb 2 10:29:35 2008
• RE: Question about Honduran behavior - Rob Lewis, Sat Feb 2 10:41:42 2008
• Take the plunge Rob.You won't regret it. - shannon brown, Sat Feb 2 12:40:26 2008
• RE: Wow, Shannon - mikefedzen, Sat Feb 2 13:06:15 2008
• RE: Take the plunge Rob.You won't regret - GabooNx, Sat Feb 2 15:46:42 2008
• RE: Take the plunge Rob.You won't regret it. - Patton, Sat Feb 2 15:52:34 2008
• RE: Take the plunge Rob.You won't regret it. - waspinator421, Sat Feb 2 16:11:24 2008
• RE: Take the plunge Rob.You won't regret it. - shannon brown, Sun Feb 3 11:07:22 2008
• Shannon.... - CFlowers, Sun Feb 3 12:54:48 2008
• RE: Shannon.... - shannon brown, Sun Feb 3 15:48:10 2008
• RE: Shannon.... - CFlowers, Sun Feb 3 15:57:47 2008
• RE: Take the plunge Rob.You won't regret it. - waspinator421, Sun Feb 3 15:46:11 2008
• Amazing!!! - waspinator421, Sat Feb 2 16:10:41 2008
• RE: Amazing!!! - shannon brown, Sun Feb 3 11:08:45 2008
• Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! - mrkent, Sat Feb 2 21:08:59 2008
• RE: Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! - shannon brown, Sun Feb 3 11:10:09 2008
• RE: Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! - mrkent, Sun Feb 3 16:02:26 2008
• RE: Take the plunge Rob.You won't regret it. - latin1956, Sat Feb 2 21:32:50 2008
• RE: Take the plunge Rob.You won't regret it. - shannon brown, Sun Feb 3 11:11:01 2008
• RE: Take the plunge Rob.You won't regret it. - latin1956, Sun Feb 3 21:58:11 2008
• RE: Take the plunge Rob.You won't regret it. - shannon brown, Sun Feb 3 22:01:25 2008
• Thanks to everyone.....more - Rob Lewis, Sat Feb 2 20:21:52 2008