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Posted by: jtibbett at Sun Apr 24 14:28:27 2005   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jtibbett ]  
   

Anyway, he posted that he handled each of his snakes every day for two minutes. I got the impression that he did this to keep them all used to being handled. I thought this was a good idea because I have a black rat that's pretty mean, and I thought it might calm him down. However, the only noticable result has turned out to be that my black rat is more willing than ever to attack me. Am I just stressing him by doing this, or am I doing something wrong? All I do is open the top, take the animal out immediately, hold him for two minutes, and put him back. The guy who said he did that - I believe it was Darin Chapell though I could be mistaken - seemed to be having much better results than I am.


   

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