Interested in becoming a snake owner

sattva · 03-02-17, 12:49 PM

Since you're not supposed to hold them 24 to 48 hours after eating {and I go the full 48} That leaves 5 days a week you can hold them... And then you don't want to hold it when it's getting ready to poop... So now you're down to 3 days a week you can hold them, unless your really good at reading the butt and you want to gamble... I usually get in good holding time when I go to clean the cage, which is about once a week with my guys... It took 5 snakes to fulfil my needs, but then I am retired with nothing else to do; I could take on more but my wife is standing on the brakes ... I hold my snakes day or night, but I have read that it's better to hold them during the day since that's their sleep time veres their hunting time...

The only thing I might add is that you might want to cove the cage with a blanket or something to block out light when the TV is on...

Your girlfriend might get into it... My wife surprised me! She likes them too but she will steal my holding time from me...

bigsnakegirl785 · 03-02-17, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by sattva

Since you're not supposed to hold them 24 to 48 hours after eating {and I go the full 48} That leaves 5 days a week you can hold them... And then you don't want to hold it when it's getting ready to poop... So now you're down to 3 days a week you can hold them, unless your really good at reading the butt and you want to gamble... I usually get in good holding time when I go to clean the cage, which is about once a week with my guys... It took 5 snakes to fulfil my needs, but then I am retired with nothing else to do; I could take on more but my wife is standing on the brakes ... I hold my snakes day or night, but I have read that it's better to hold them during the day since that's their sleep time veres their hunting time...

The only thing I might add is that you might want to cove the cage with a blanket or something to block out light when the TV is on...

Your girlfriend might get into it... My wife surprised me! She likes them too but she will steal my holding time from me...

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I don't time my handling to revolve around poop times whatsoever and I haven't been pooped on in like 6+ years (garter musk doesn't count). Even my retic with her butt fully loaded has yet to poop on me. The closest I've come in the past 6 years was the few times I've had snakes poop outside in the yard while I was "handling" them; I wasn't touching them but they weren't in their enclosure.