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07-10-07, 09:12 PM
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How Can You Tell?
How can you tell if a Ball Python or any pet snake likes to be handeled?
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07-10-07, 09:22 PM
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Re: How Can You Tell?
You will know. They each have their own personalities. I use to have a baby redtail that loved to wrap around my ponytail and lay his head on my cheek and go to sleep and another one that use to lay by my ear and sigh. If they don't want to be held, they will let you know. They may strike, or get restless. But you will learn to read their actions and looks
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07-10-07, 09:49 PM
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Re: How Can You Tell?
I'm hesitant to say "liked" being handled. But Ball pythons especially are easy to tell if they are comfortable with it...a BPs defensive manuver is to hide it's head underneath it's coils....in extreme cases they roll up into a ball litterally with the head in the center, Mostly only happens in Wild caughts and hatchlings...most grow out of the "ball" stage. At anyrate if it's trying to hide it's head, it isn't comfortable with handling yet.
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07-10-07, 10:10 PM
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Re: How Can You Tell?
Guru that answers my question from my other thread. Thanks
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07-10-07, 11:29 PM
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Re: How Can You Tell?
Absolutely man...killed 2 birds with one stone huh? Neat! LOL
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07-11-07, 09:30 AM
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Re: How Can You Tell?
i guess my snake likes to be handeled because whenever i use the computer he wraps around my arm and always some how gets in my shirt sleeve lol
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Adult High Yellow Leopard Gecko "Nikki"
Juvenile Rainwater Albino Leopard Gecko "Chip"
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07-11-07, 10:19 AM
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Re: How Can You Tell?
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Guru that answers my question from my other thread. Thanks
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That doesn't matter he will still post to it. 
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07-11-07, 11:07 AM
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Re: How Can You Tell?
lol.. 
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07-11-07, 11:37 AM
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Re: How Can You Tell?
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That doesn't matter he will still post to it. |
LOL.....now that's not very nice! Funny though!
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07-11-07, 12:04 PM
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Re: How Can You Tell?
No snake likes to be handled, they only tolerate it, some more than others. Snakes like to get out of their enclosures because its freedom & they like to sit on or wrap around us because we are warm. They don't like to come out just to say hi or cuddle. Its all about freedom & warmth, not love or affection. Mark
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07-11-07, 01:04 PM
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Re: How Can You Tell?
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Originally Posted by gonesnakee
No snake likes to be handled, they only tolerate it, some more than others. Snakes like to get out of their enclosures because its freedom & they like to sit on or wrap around us because we are warm. They don't like to come out just to say hi or cuddle. Its all about freedom & warmth, not love or affection. Mark
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Agreed! Snakes are not kitties and puppies. That's what is amazing about them. You have to respect and love them for what they are - creatures who don't give a damn about you!
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07-11-07, 01:10 PM
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Re: How Can You Tell?
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Originally Posted by The Snake Guru
LOL.....now that's not very nice! Funny though!
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Yeah but its true. lol
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07-11-07, 06:23 PM
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Re: How Can You Tell?
I have no idea what you are talking about! LOL
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07-11-07, 06:28 PM
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Re: How Can You Tell?
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Snakes like to get out of their enclosures because its freedom
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I've actually found this to be the exact oppisite. It seems to me that when a snake has been in the same enclosure fot a period of time, it gets to be like the enclosure is "home base" so to speak. I've actually found when my snakes are out for handling, I barely have to even walk by thier cage and they are barreling into it right away. I've had boas sitting out and sliding across the floor and they usually head back to thier cages and get in them on thier own accord. Just an interesting behavior that I've observed over the years.
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07-11-07, 07:26 PM
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Re: How Can You Tell?
I have to agree completely with Mark on this one as well. Way too often do I hear people talking about their "pet" snakes as though they were puppies. Don't get me wrong, I love interacting with my snakes as much as any herp nut lol, but it's a completely different experience than playing with a puppy or kitten. This is just my $.02.
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