I would recommend giving her a good soak, and then take her in one had holding her right behind the head and letting her body wrap around your forarm. Then us your thumb and rub from the back of the head, where the end of the loss shed starts, up towards the center of the head. A good soak is very important for this because with out it you will not get the skin off easy at all. Then when you have some lose ends of skin pealed up take a tweezers and sipply pinch the loss skin and slowly peal it off, be extreamly careful around the eyes. The snake will not like the head rubbing and will try to retreat back so firmly hold but still allowing it to retreat but it is still getting its head rub through your hands in the process.

When you hold them like this they well get a little freaked out but I have never had on strike me. The closes thing to a bite that I have had is that when you rub their heads they kind of flatten out and then the teeth are sticking out over the sides of their mouth and on catchs my holding hand every now and then, but it doesn't even seem to draw blood. Just a prick.

As I said be very careful around the eyes.

Let me know if this helps,
matt

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