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Feeding number 3, mouse. She got a baby rabbit last week. I put in a defrosted baby rabbit and mouse in her rubbermaid next to each other, she took the rabbit. No idea what to make of that. She got a freshly killed mouse today, successful feeding 3/3 - im very happy.

I figure ill start handling her now (in a few days obviously.) Any ideas on how i proceed. Ive never had anything so small that really hates me (i love her though) that i want to handle. Obviously think leather gloves but how do i know how much is to much? I mean i can see her hyperventilating if i get to close to her. Can hyperventilating harm her or will 10-20 minutes of it make no difference? Im used to Boas. My burm was easy to handle as well, thought he was nearly 2 feet when i started handling him. Had to get rid of him sadly. Retarded danish goverment made them illegal.

You can clearly see the bumb on her. Sorry for the lousy picture quallity. I took it in a hurry because as i mentioned she hates - i think ill name her after my ex-girlfriend actually.
Anyway enjoy and sorry for the rant.

Go in with confidence and scoop him up pretty quick.You could use gloves if your afraid of a little bite.This is what I find to work well for me.If you go in slow and try grabbing him and don't get him quick he'll key in on you and snap.Oh don't hold him more than 5 mins for the first few times or he'll more than likely let you know by peeing or poop on you that he doesn't want to be held.Just gradually start holding him more and more each time and eventually he'll get used to you.Only a few will give you a problem still being fiesty untill a more mature age and hopefully then they calm down for you.Should be o.k. for you since you've had boas and pythons before.Remember stay calm and easy and if he bites it wont hurt since he's still small.Let us know how he does. Later, Ethan

make sure you don't hold with force the start to thrash and that gets dangerous. Just kinda cradle. I personally keep it really short but semi frequantly IE only a minute or two but try to do at least once a day maybe even twice then increase duration and decrease frequancy
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Kevin
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