Hook Training

ffollett · 09-17-07, 02:24 PM

Ok for those that do not believe in hook training. Every time I have taken Dee, see then and now thread in burms, out of her enclosure since she was a baby I have used a hook to touch her head and then pull her out. I didn't do that yesterday and almost paid for it. She took a swing at me and the only thing that saved my hand was her water bowl being between me and her. She tagged it, not me. I took my hand out and got a hook touched her with it and then got her out. All I had after that was the normal problems of her not wanting to come out but there was no more attempts at eating my hand.

TailsW/Scales · 09-17-07, 06:47 PM

More proof of the ol saying "If it aint broke, don't fix it."

I even hook some of my large ball pythons regardless. I don't like getting tagged. It's just not fun.

I am a firm believer in using hooks especially for the exhuberant species when it comes to feeding. Hooks keep yah from gettin stitches or visiting the doctors.

ffollett · 09-17-07, 07:56 PM

I felt incredibly stupid after it happened. It is one of those things I know better then to not do. I have been working with the retic the same way since day 1.

The funny thing is I did get tagged that day by one of the male ball pythons. I was checking to make sure he ate his rat and didn't just leave the dead body. I didn't even get the bin out of the rack all the way when his head came out nailed my thumb and then disappeared back into the bin.

TailsW/Scales · 09-17-07, 08:03 PM

Remember ................................................. they bite you because they love you. lol

ffollett · 09-17-07, 08:25 PM

LOL I like that. I have been lucky so far in that every snake that has ever gotten me has let go right away. One has left a few teeth to remember her by but she didn't hold on or coil.