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meretseger
at Fri Dec 19 00:28:51 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by meretseger ]
Use something like a popsicle stick, a paintstirrer, or a snake hook to lift them out of their cage next time. Then let them crawl onto your hand from there. It saves both of you the stress of grabbing and being grabbed. I do this with a bunch of my nippy small snakes, to save them the stress of having to bite me. After you do that for a while you can work on picking them up with your hands again.
But other than that I guess you just have to get back on the horse. Your brain is sort of primed to be scared of this sort of stuff, but you'll get used to it after a while.
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?
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