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RonCrawford
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| deborahbroadus wrote: | I know about tapping with the snake hook. It's the use of the hand as a training tool that concerned me.  But if it works..it works. I personally wouldn't try it.  ((picture this, it's getting ready to strike and I reach out my hand to tap it on the head...I don't THINK so. Not saying that YOU, Lindsey, do it that way, but that's the visual picture that I conjured up.
Snake hooks, I use, got two on the wall. Hands, I don't. I had a snapper..she was JUST a baby and terrified. I had hubby handling her with barehands...and I handled her with gloves and the snake hook. She is no longer snappish...but when she was snapping, I wasn't thinking about putting my hand near her head or anywhere near those teeth!
I am a complete wuss when it comes to pain!  |
I don't tap them with my hand, only with the snake hook. Like you said, I don't want my hand associated with aggressive behavior.
I use hemostats to remove baby rats and mice from breeder rodent cages as well. I don't want my hand to be associated with taking their children away from them. They bite the steel hemostats HARD when I try to remove their babies. Just imagine what they'd do to me if I took them by hand? :smile:
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slitheringin
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deborahbroadus
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Thanks for telling me that!  I didn't know they become agressive after giving birth if someone tries to take their babies! Does this perhaps mean that they have maternal instincts although they are solitary creatures?
I can imagine what they would do...People proudly post pictures of their taggings, and I am still tag free and I want to remain tag free, even if I never get any respect; Rodney Dangerfield will have nothing on me!
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RonCrawford
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| deborahbroadus wrote: | Thanks for telling me that! I didn't know they become agressive after giving birth if someone tries to take their babies! Does this perhaps mean that they have maternal instincts although they are solitary creatures?
I can imagine what they would do...People proudly post pictures of their taggings, and I am still tag free and I want to remain tag free, even if I never get any respect; Rodney Dangerfield will have nothing on me! |
I was refering to removing baby rats/mice from rodent breeding cages, not from a snakes' cage. The female rats or mice tend to bite hard on the steel hemostats.
I must note that female ball pythons are quite aggressive too when they've laid a clutch of eggs and wrap around them. They are infamous for protecting their eggs and will hiss and strike like there's no tomorrow! 
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deborahbroadus
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I read the post too quickly, sorry.
Yeah..I can visualize...if you have been putting your hand in there all along taking babies for food...then one day...TAG, you're it! Or maybe they will multate..mentally and start planning your demise like Willard! I know that rats are fercious because I was trying to stun one, once, and it BIT me. OH...I became bloodthirsty and wacked it; now I feed f/t.
As a dog trainer, I learned never to let my hands be associated with anything negative in relation to handling animals. I wondered if Snakes were of the same mental bent..where they could make that connection.
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