panic attacks when trying to handle my ball

[Woody33259]

Zer213 I iwll tell you that feeding in or out oof the your snake enclousre is a personnel preference thing at best. I can find you 100 experts and 50 will say never in the encloser and 50 will say in the encloser for different reasons. A trick I learned along time ago that i know really works with every Pyhton no matter its age or if you rasied it or not. I always touch my snake with a snake hook around there mid section this tells my snakes thru reputition that its not feeding time if you do this everytime it will not only help your snake but it will insure you your snake wont bite out of a feeding response. Additionally until you get over your panic attacks you can run the hook up the body while grasping the body with your other hand then the you have the hook between her mouth and your hand until you get here picked up. Second always take your snake out of the cage for numerous reasons but the two best reasons are 1. Excercise exploring time keeping her fit and trim 2. You dont want the snake to become to independant they often get bity when not handled ( at least 2 or 3 times a week ) I have 12 snakes but my two tails are a perrfect example of wht reputition with my snkes accomplishes Bonnie and CLyde will come out of the cage and crawl on me I dont have to pick them up. Yes it took a long time but i rasied them from newborns to there present lengths Bonnie being over 6 ft and Clyde over 5 ft. I have 10 Pythons and only one has every took a bite out of me when she was 2 yrs old till today i dont know why but they have bad days to I guess she is 4 years old now and never has she done it again. Every post on here is a good one and it works for them as my techniques works for me so I will just say reputition is so important to you and your snake she will learn and then your chance of getting bit is next to 0%. Good luck Kid and stay on your medicine.