Posted by:
Br8knitOFF
at Sun Dec 26 11:27:27 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Br8knitOFF ]
WHOA- NICE northern!!!!
Another thing you can try is to make sure you have plenty of hides for your snake.
I use old cereal boxes, mac & cheese boxes, rice a roni boxes, etc. and my pits LOVE 'em.
You never have to clean them when they get soiled- just throw them into the recycle bin and put a new one in.
As for the handling, my pits are almost always inside one of the 3-4 boxes I have scattered around their cage, and when I handle them, I find the one hiding the snake, take the box out, and 'pour' the snake out into my hand.
I've NEVER had a classic pituophis response when 'pouring' the target out of it's hide and into my hand.
However, I've got 2-3 of them that will go NUTS on me if I reach in there with my hand...
Hope this helps!
//Todd
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