>>You can condition ANY animal, snakes included. Ever hear of Pavlov's dog. If a snake were in a cage, never handle its entire life and its only interaction with humans was a cage being opened and food coming in then the snake would associate humans with food. I have several kings and the only one that even attemps (used to) bite was my MBK that I hand fed as a baby. Yeah it was cute when he'd bite me when he was 11" long but at 52" NOT SO FUN!

The real way around that is handling them outside of feeding. There's no way in hell I'm moving my retics for feeding (handling a retic that's been smelling food and is hungry=pain and blood). I open most cages daily, if for no other reason than to spot check for feces, etc. I can't say that I have any animals that always treat the cage door opening as a meal thing. Now yeah, if I've been thawing rodents out and the smell is all over, everyone's ready to chow down. rest of the time? Not so much unless the snake's already hungry (gauged by activity).
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6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
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