What do you think?

[sharthun]

Originally Posted by Terranaut

Seriously try this. Wash both your hands with the same soap rigjt before handling. Pass him the snake after a few minutes.

^^^^^ Yep it's the simple things!

[MDT]

They "desire" (I really hate that term)...they will seek out warmth and stable platform to rest on, etc.

Dani, I think you are correct, if you can't allow a 2 to 3 point contact for the snake, I don't think it matter a bit what you "smell like"...You are an unstable perch. The idea of washing with same soap is a good idea at least for somewhat of a blinded study.

My snakes could "care less" about who holds them...me, my daughters, my wife (who really doesn't care for them at all)...they just do their thing until they're put back in enclosures.

[Sublimeballs]

I can atest to my snakes "favoring" me over others(not so much the balls but the carpet, anaconda, And retics). My GF is nervous around all of them except the balls and it shows, she gets struck at by snakes that haven't shown the least bit of aggression towards me. They pick up on the pharamones we emit. My big retic(jampea dwarf) will come to me if anyone is holding her, but doesn't go to others while I hold her. But as others have pointed out this is just a comfort thing. I have a high body tempeture, coupled with a familiar smells, and a lack of fear pharamones; which I assume is how they pick me out. I'm a better warm tree lol.