>>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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.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
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• Extremely aggressive cali king - darkfall25, Wed Jun 16 16:42:29 2010
• trying to put her pic up again - darkfall25, Wed Jun 16 16:44:36 2010
• RE: trying to put her pic up again - KINGBOA, Wed Jun 16 17:12:26 2010
• RE: trying to put her pic up again - darkfall25, Wed Jun 16 17:55:45 2010
• RE: trying to put her pic up again - KINGBOA, Wed Jun 16 20:38:50 2010
• RE: trying to put her pic up again - darkfall25, Wed Jun 16 21:26:19 2010
• RE: trying to put her pic up again - KevinM, Thu Jun 17 09:31:38 2010
• Solution - markg, Thu Jun 17 13:42:28 2010
• RE: Solution - KINGBOA, Thu Jun 17 17:30:59 2010
• RE: Solution - darkfall25, Thu Jun 17 17:35:17 2010
• RE: Solution - KINGBOA, Thu Jun 17 17:44:45 2010
• RE: Solution - bluerosy, Mon Jun 21 11:34:25 2010
• an update - darkfall25, Mon Jun 21 11:39:25 2010
• RE: Solution - markg, Thu Jun 17 18:25:18 2010
• RE: Solution - a153fish, Thu Jun 17 18:50:45 2010
• RE: Solution - KINGBOA, Thu Jun 17 19:04:30 2010
• RE: Solution - KevinM, Fri Jun 18 09:06:29 2010
• RE: Solution - varanid, Thu Jun 17 19:40:28 2010
• RE: Solution - KINGBOA, Thu Jun 17 20:08:18 2010
• RE: Solution - varanid, Thu Jun 17 22:59:35 2010
• RE: Solution - a153fish, Thu Jun 17 20:12:11 2010
• RE: Solution - Jlassiter, Thu Jun 17 19:59:52 2010
• RE: Solution - KINGBOA, Thu Jun 17 20:33:19 2010
• RE: Solution - Jlassiter, Thu Jun 17 20:44:00 2010
• RE: Solution - KINGBOA, Thu Jun 17 21:04:24 2010
• RE: Solution - Jlassiter, Thu Jun 17 21:50:38 2010
• RE: Solution - darkfall25, Thu Jun 17 20:38:07 2010
• RE: Solution - Jlassiter, Thu Jun 17 20:46:19 2010
• RE: Solution, sort of off topic - mrkent, Fri Jun 18 10:22:55 2010
• RE: Solution, sort of off topic - Jlassiter, Fri Jun 18 18:08:47 2010
• RE: Solution, sort of off topic - mrkent, Fri Jun 18 23:19:56 2010
• Oops. - mrkent, Fri Jun 18 23:22:58 2010
• RE: Solution, sort of off topic - bluerosy, Mon Jun 21 11:38:56 2010
• That has been my experience too Mark.. - BobS, Thu Jun 17 22:44:15 2010
• RE: That has been my experience too Mark.. - nekhebet, Fri Jun 18 10:34:11 2010
• RE: Extremely aggressive cali king - kamileun, Thu Jun 17 21:00:00 2010
• Not a popular thought..... - BobS, Thu Jun 17 23:07:49 2010