How often do you handle your snakes?

[Lankyrob]

Snakes may not be social creatures and not ENJOY handling but the fact is that at some point in its life you are going to have to remove the snake form its home for health checks or for cleaning the enclosure.

If you handle your snake regularly (not saying every day) then it is less likely to get stressed and/or bite when it HAS to be removed from its home. If you then need to treat an ilness for example having a "tame" (hate that word) snake is going to make things a lot easier for the owner and the snake.

There are all types of personalitys within snakes, some tolerate handling much more than others and it is our responsibility to ensure we dont over handle those that either dont tolerate it or are too fragile (GTP's for example)