How often do you handle your snakes?

[presspirate]

As seems to be the trend, there is no choice that really defines how often I handle. The corns typically get handled a couple times a week. The bigger snakes, well it depends, sometimes they may each get handled once a week, some times once every couple weeks. When I first got into snakes, I handled them as often as possible.

[infernalis]

On average people.. there is plenty of choices for an average.

I handle some a lot more than others, so I just used my average.

[sassy_snake_lady]

I voted around once- twice a week.

I tend to get them out to check them over before I feed them so I can weigh them and then again a few days later when they need a spot clean.

That's it really.

[ilovemypets1988]

except for the period during and 3 days after feeding, i handle mine everyday including my boa, who i must say loves being out and handled, every time i go to change his water, he slithers up my arm and coils himself around the shoulder area of my arm and as for the corns, they hate being handled more than once every 2 days and they say that bci`s dont like being handled daily, try telling my boa - mr hissy - that lol

[CanadianEryx]

I have a small sand boa and I take her out when I exchange her water around mid-week for a little loving and then I handle her on Sundays before I feed her and clean her cage. Otherwise I rarely see her since she loves to burrow. It's interesting to watch the hills and valleys she creates in her substrate, however, as she scoots along underneath!

[mykee]

I handle my balls (hehe) to feed, clean, water and for the occasional health checks.
Ball pythons are not a social species and having kep thtme for som long, I know enough about them to know that unnecessary handling can do more harm than good.

[presspirate]

You don't want to handle your balls too much, you'll go blind or get hairy palms.

[infernalis]

Let's just say, handling in my house is so infrequent that when I come out of the snake room holding one, my family immediately asks "what's wrong with that one"

[sickvenom]

Originally Posted by infernalis

Let's just say, handling in my house is so infrequent that when I come out of the snake room holding one, my family immediately asks "what's wrong with that one"

are we still talking about snakes???

[infernalis]

uh, yes....

[presspirate]

Whoops, my bad.....

[Stormy Night]

I have 45 balls! .. I keep them in a jar on my dresser.
All of my slithering army love to be held. I have a huge fenced in garden with waterfall ponds and (figurative ) crap that I mostly built for them. So I try to rotate. I do two at a time *winks*. I'm laying on the bed right now and I have three balls on me, and a boa around my neck. It takes me about 3 weeks to finish the rotation and start all over again. Now Loki my huge corn is mostly on a floor to ceiling cat tower/tree ( i dont have a cat. I built it for my snakes). It has different levels and he loves that thing. I open his cabinet and he will take him self to the tree, climb to my eye level, and chill. He's not a normal snake. Its like letting the dog out of the crate. So he is out and held daily..multiple times

[Lankyrob]

Please dont put snakes around your neck, it takes milliseconds of pressure in the correct place in the neck area for you to be unconscious, at which point your snakes are free to escape or if you are standibg then you will hit the deck hard, if this panics the snake and it decides to hold tighter then we have a tragedy on our hands. Better safe than sorry

[Stormy Night]

Its only a few months old. Maybe a lil more than a foot. I think I'm safe. There's no way I'd have a 6 footer wraped around my neck. That's insane.

[Lankyrob]

Just to give an idea, when iwas training to cage fight my instructor wanted us all to know what it was like to be put out so that you are less likely to panic in a fight situaion. I was sat on the mats and he was behind me, i honestly never felt him touch my neck and was unconscious - not suggesting snakes are disguised ninjas - but even a small snake can exert enough pressure.