Hey Tom,



Yes, I know that you never said that your suggestion was "the norm" and I certainly and most agree with you that there is NO just one and only one way way of handling a snake" and be considered the norm by any means since milksnake species differ from one another and snakes of the same species also differ from each other in terms of personality and such. I guess my objective of responding to your thread was definitely stated in your last statement "and I would hate to think others would miss out on these great snakes fearing they never calm down" ... and I totally agree with you that a lot of people have this bad impression that milksnakes are harder to have as pets than let's say kingsnakes. I was chatting with a novice last Fall and her concern was that she will not enjoy handling milksnakes (especially hondurans) because she thinks that they never calm down...and she ended up getting an Arizona kingsnake (which is not a bad looking snake anyway but her fears were unfounded). So, at least whoever is reading our threads will see 2 ways of handling hatchlings and they can adopt accordingly what suits them best, based on the snake itself.



Have a great weekend Tom,



And thanks...




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