Snakes are animals of routine. If your new animal is healthy, and you have a need to handle it, then make it routine for both you and the animal. If your handling stresses the animal, then you need to learn how to hold an animal. In my experience 98% of keepers do not have a FEEL for holding snakes. Its a dance, its you and the snake, the reality is, your holding eachother. The first simple instructions are, With one hand, pick the snake up and set it in the other hand, keep that hand still and secure. Like its a branch. Not grabbing, squeezing or moving all around. If you did not have arms and legs, you wouldn't want to sit on quicksand, security is the key here. With your free hand, you can gently guide it if needed. When first picking it up, slide your hand under the snake and not grab it like a predator. Again, how a snake reacts to you. IS ABOUT YOU, not the snake.
So, learning to hold a snake is the most valuabe lesson in taming. Routine is important, Start that routine as soon as you unpack the snake or take it out of its hatching box. If it's healthy. The key to taming(trust) is YOU. Some folks talk to the animal, great, anything to comunicate a feeling of trust. Some folks say, snakes cannot hear, that's debatable but, its not about the snake its about you. pt2

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