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Any hints on how to do it, I just got a baby albino, its 6 wks old this monday, and he has tagged me 8 times, but no longer hisses at me, should I consider this an improvement? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Tony Butler

Just continue to be patient and continue the handling sessions. Ensure that you are gentle when holding your snake and let the snake slide through your hands nad just redirecting it. Do not grasp the snake and restrict its movements. Most importantly do not get upset when you get bit and put the snkae back in its enclosure. If you do this a pattern can get learned where the snake will know that if it bites you then it will get put up which is what it wants. So continue the holding session atleast five to ten minutes after a bite. Todd

Ya man. When I got my baby albino, it was definately not the nicest snake ive owned. It struck if i so much as looked at it wrong. But after some handling and bandaids, it calmed down, and now is a very very friendly snake. Only time its every struck lately was when I had just got killing a rat for my regular phase burm. I went to go give my alb. the food and that thing was alert faster than I had ever seen it. It struck but was way off hehe (lucky for me). But other than that...nice nice snake. Just dont give up on it.

Although I have never used this technique some people I know have with good results (of course they did what everybody else said to do also...so who knows what really worked).

After you long day at work or play, put your used Tshirt/sweater/whatever into the cage and leave it there. The snake might get more use to your "human" smells. Like I said this was used with lots of other things going on...but it might help and all you have to do is wash the shirt you were going to wash anyways.
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0.0.1 Columbian x Argentine Boa
1.0 Royal Python

Great suggestion. I did this for my columbian rainbow since she was a baby, for my green burm as well as for a rescued large ball python. Now, when I put a shirt in there, all of them prefer the shirt as opposed to a nice dark, tight hiding area. Go figure.
They do recognize their keepers and anytime I take them to someone else (or they are even at my place), they stretch way out away from that person to come to me. LOL!

My CRB even has her ultra fav hiding spot...oddly enough, it's my armpit. I don't have a clue why, my only guesses are that either it's due to the fact there is a gland in our armpits and my ale naturale scent is even sronger there, OR...she just likes to cheat death. ;P

Hugs!

Amanda Rose

I use this with all my babys and they all are hand tamed even my brb babys.It may or may not be the shirt but its worked so far so why change it.
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0.1 Leos
1.1 Corn snakes (1 Lav & 1 Ghost)
0.1 Banan California King
0.0.1 Childrens python
1.1 Brazilian Rainbow boa
1.0 Rat (as pet not food)
1.2 Ball pythons (1pastel 2 normals)
"whats with you and all those dang reptiles?"