While your and TB's advice of leaving them alone for a while is Recipe and good advice for folks you do not know. The value of this forum is, we Know Snakekate and she has feelings and is curious and cares. So why would we/I treat her in a "recipe" sort of way. Recipe=information anybody, including dumb as a stone folks can follow)

Young animals like people are empty containers when born/hatched. They are designed and ready to LEARN. So why would you not interact with them when they are at there strongest ability to learn. Simply put, a hatchling snake enters the world and learns its environment. As it ages it learns less and less, then becomes set in its environment. You want to be part of that environment. Not an interloper to what's normal to it.

I mentioned common sense in my reply to SK, but I did not mention that If your in interactions negatively effect the animal, then adjust your interactions, get better at it, not avoid it. Again, I am not being mean, but when you tell SK to not touch her animals for X period of time, it can be taken as, you do not think shes smart enough to learn. Personally, shes has all the tools to become really good with kingsnakes. It starts In her head. Shes wants to be. Think about this, the best bond you can do is have a hatchling have its first meals, in your hand. Doing that will leave a inprint that your hand provides a place of nourishment. And please do not say, it will want to eat your hand. Cause I am pretty sure that wild snakes do not eat the nest the baby mice are found in. If they attempt to eat your hand, its because you taught them too. pt1

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