How often do you handle your Boa?

[Niten]

As simple as that.

[Moreau]

Whenever I feel like it. Maybe once every week to two weeks. Either I take her out to have a roam around the living room, or to let the kids play with her, or just chill out with me. Not as often as most I'm sure.

[TurboChris]

3-4 times a week on average I'd say. Maybe 1-1.5 hours per handling.
I find it very relaxing chilling with her, but she is still around 3ft or a little over only so far.

[Niten]

Oook I guess I'm not asking anymore, just sharing our love with you. <3
I do it every day to get her used to it, for short periods (20 min) but many times as I was told that she must get used to being put in and out too, not just to staying out. I'm sure she's not stressed at all, she's always curious and won't ever move away from me, I become the HQ from where she can start her explorations but won't leave me for any reason in the world. Here she is, hanhing out in da hood.
It looks like I'm quite talented in building a relationship with her. Let's just hope it ends better than it usually does with human women...

[Minkness]

I know you're Italian and all...but some of the things you say about your snake kinda gives me the willies....just sayin'....

[Niten]

Are you a human woman, minkness...?

[wrecker45]

I received a female boa. The guy who owned her was scared of her. I took her out of the bag on the bed. She came out hissing and striking at me. Put her in the enclosuer spent 1 1/2 hrs. hissing and striking the glass. I handle her a couple of times a week. She is starting to tame down. 20141115_171539.jpg

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[Minkness]

Why does my species and gender matter?

And Wreker, I know exactly how that goes! At my first repticon I was holding a snake and this random woman came up o me excited to show me what she just bought. It was a good sized columbian red tail. (Had to weigh about 30 pounds and its head was almost the size of my hand). Well she proceeded to tell me that she was scared of snakes but felt this one was so beautiful so figured shed just get a really huge tank and set it up so that she never had to handle it. Baffling yeah? Well, me being an excitable idiot asked to see it. (She was carrying it around in a big pillowcase). So, we find an empty table and put her down and as SOON as that pillowcase opened...I had a huge snake attached to my hand! Lucky for both of them I am otherwise experienced with handling snakes and lack a fear of them, so i knew not to pull back but boy was my hand bloody when the poor thing let go...the woman was totally freaked out....I told her it was ok, nothing really hurt, showed her the littoe holes, and educated her about snake bites. Why and how and what to do ect. She was a nice enough lady, but I felt bad that someone that afraid of a snake got a massive, stressed out columbian as their first x.x

I still think about it sometimes and hope the best for woman and snake, and think to myself what vender would be so pow as to sell an honestly freaked out person a HUGE snake like that? I know the point is to make a sale...but sell something smaller to a beginner x.x even if it's just a baby columbian.

Anyway, sorry for the little story, but reading your post made me think of that whole situation again.

[ManSlaughter33]

I'm a little afraid of snakes, well was, I have a 1 year old boa, we're both getting used to each other but she hasnt hissed or struck at me yet so I'll take it as a good thing
I try to get her out at least 2x a week at the minimum, for about 20 minutes each handling. Our home is new to her still and a new enclosure so I'm giving her time. She eats very well though, no hunger strikes yet!

[Cmwells90]

Honestly, I handle my boa about once every two or three weeks. Sometimes longer. But when I do handle her she's still very sweet which is funny because she has a very aggressive feeding response.

[bigsnakegirl785]

It really depends. I'm usually gone during the weekend, so if I'm doing other stuff I'll handle him the other 4 days, barring any feeds or sheds. He only eats every 4-5 weeks, though, so he's usually free to be handled while it feels like I rarely get to handle the others. -.-

[Niten]

Nothing Minkness, I was just wondering about what I could have written to make you "have the willies" (it took me an entire day to understand this idiomatic expression... -.-)

Woah wrecker that's her sister for sure!!!!!! The bad one, she's so kind... Really, she's a gentlewoman, I didn't think I could get this attached to a deadly predator, mouse killer and etc!
My method is working really well anyway, she doesn't even turn her head anymore to see what's going on when I take her, she just waits to be lifted and then finds a comfortable position on my hand. It has become a routine, I don't need to touch her to see how she reacts or to clarify I'm not food and alll those cautions I saw people using on the net.

[wrecker45]

Yesterday I handled her without welding gloves with no problem.

[millertime89]

Weekly usually. Sometimes more. Mostly just when I'm cleaning as I set out food the day after so they start to smell it and get antsy and they're usually in feed mode for 2-4 days after so that's 4-5 days out of the week right there.

[MDT]

Replace the word boa with pythons.....as little as I need to. Unless an animal comes to me with purpose and wags a tail or purrs, it doesn't need me to jack with it.

YMMV.