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Brittanywordisbond View Profile |
Okay my snake completly turned on me.
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| 07/25/08 10:25pm |
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Brittanywordisbond View Profile |
Message To: Brittanywordisbond In reference to Message Id: 1808850 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
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| 07/25/08 10:38pm |
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Scruffy~n~sage View Profile |
Message To: Brittanywordisbond In reference to Message Id: 1808872 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
If the problem persists for much longer, it could be a sign of a medical problem and you may want to have a vet take a look at your snake. You wanna hear my story? Well, tough. Here it is anyway. I got a rtb for my birthday and I could hold him with no problem. Up until the third month in. He bit me on the arm and left four teeth. That was last summer. Now I can hold Loki only if I have a hold of his head. Because I am scared of being tagged. For you, keep socializing once you feel comfortable and don’t rush right in on the snuggling. Good luck with her. |
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| 07/26/08 02:09am |
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DillanSim. View Profile |
Message To: Scruffy~n~sage In reference to Message Id: 1809110 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
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| 07/26/08 03:50am |
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The rey View Profile |
Message To: DillanSim. In reference to Message Id: 1809149 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
put in 1 of my shirts that i wore for a day, so he got used to my smell. started handling him daily or every other day now he’s cool. but i still got to hold him once a day or he gets rowdy, wierd aint it? |
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| 07/27/08 12:17pm |
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Brittanywordisbond View Profile |
Message To: Scruffy~n~sage In reference to Message Id: 1809110 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
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| 07/31/08 09:23pm |
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Gueedo View Profile |
Message To: Brittanywordisbond In reference to Message Id: 1808850 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
first of all, i wanna tell you that even if you are stressed or whatever your snake will not feel it. The only animals can feel your fear are sharks and dogs. Sharks because they can feel your heartbeat and his electric impulse, dogs can smell your skin and if you are scared, you’ll sweat. By the way, Boa is not like a little cutie dog, it’s a preistoric reptile. The follow impulses and they don’t think. If she’s often striking you she maybe stressed. It will be just a period. Check her tail and make sure she’s not loaded with lots of "hard poop" also don’t be scared and when you want to handle her, just put your hand on her, don’t move fast or slow, just do it naturally. She needs to understand who’s the boss... It can happen, i had a boa when i was a child and he did bite me lots of times, after a while he quit it and now it’s a very nice boa. So, don’t be afraid, keep in mind that boas are wild animals and you must be the "boss" always. hope this can help |
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| 08/01/08 03:18am |
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Brittanywordisbond View Profile |
Message To: Gueedo In reference to Message Id: 1815593 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
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| 08/04/08 11:58am |
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Brittanywordisbond View Profile |
Message To: Gueedo In reference to Message Id: 1815593 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
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| 08/04/08 12:01pm |
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Scales4all View Profile |
Message To: Brittanywordisbond In reference to Message Id: 1819225 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
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| 08/10/08 07:42pm |
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SusanC View Profile |
Message To: Scales4all In reference to Message Id: 1826377
She could be stressed... she could be sick... or she could just be..a byatch.. lol I have a male RTB that is about 5 feet... he wouldn’t bite a thing... he loves the way I smell..prefers to be on me...will crawl off of my husband to get to me... (I wear bath and Body works...sweet pea) I literally have to prove this to family and friends b/c they don’t believe my snake recognizes my scent. Also people say that feeding in a separate enclosure isn’t needed... I say it depends on the snake. I have a female that is 7 feet. She is extremely enclosure aggressive. Once I get her out she is fine... but going in her enclosure to pick her up is a no no. Have you tried to hook train your snake? Some people say hooks are for whimps... I say hooks are for serious... smart... snake handlers. I have hooks ranging in sizes. I even use them to pick up my small corn snake morphs. Trust me it is well worth the expense... besides.. my hubby is like a jack of all trades kinda guy... he made everyone I have. So... lets start over... tell Ron and I everything... we’ll see if we can help you figure this out. ~smiles~ Susan |
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| 08/12/08 11:56am |
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Inferno14 View Profile |
Message To: SusanC In reference to Message Id: 1828272 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
Quote: everytime i go to pet her she turns her head real quick @ me like shes about to snap then just sits there i just wanna pick her up but i dont want her to get mad or something
I know what you mean about this, i have an adult female cornsnake, and she does the same exact thing when you touch her. a friend of mine’s does this also, but i just told her to reach in and pick it up, no matter how much you want to pull away because of the face or the movements. when i picked up my cornsnake, she did the same thing, turning around real fast and flying her head right up to ur hand like she’s hungry or pissed, but she lost interest when i lifted her up. it all really depends on the snake though. sometimes i have to put a glove that smells like i do in a few of my reptile’s tanks and pet them with it to find out how they’d react to the touch and smell. oh, and to Gueedo, you make a lot of good points in what you’d said previously, but i will tell you that reptiles, along with many other animals CAN pick up on y our energy. maybe not as well as dogs for obvious reasons as dogs need the sense to pick out pack leaders and such, but i’ve observed a few circumstances in which my bearded dragon, Spike, will puff and open his mouth wide and turn at you like he’s ready to bite, and the only time he’s done this is when somebody is feeling a bit of fear. i’m saying this respectfully of your opinion, and this is my opinion. i don’t want to fight, i just am stating my opinion over this. courtney |
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| 08/12/08 03:38pm |
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Gueedo View Profile |
Message To: Inferno14 In reference to Message Id: 1828516 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
I have a degree in Bio engineering. Energy is stuff for wizard. SCIENCE is a better proof to study animals, C. Darwin told us a lot.... So please let’s keep away from people stuff like "my snake can feel if i’m happy or sad" this is "wonderworld" let’s stay on Earth and help people with problems. By the way, another advice; don’t use hook with snakes, it’s not smart at all. Smart people use the brain, not the hook. (this is referred to who said that is good to use hooks with snakes) see ya |
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| 08/14/08 03:06am |
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SuperSaiyanSmits View Profile |
Message To: Gueedo In reference to Message Id: 1830416 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
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| 08/14/08 04:15am |
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Brittanywordisbond View Profile |
Message To: Scales4all In reference to Message Id: 1826377 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
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| 09/10/08 08:05pm |
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Brittanywordisbond View Profile |
Message To: SusanC In reference to Message Id: 1828272 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
and i have a lamp for the winter she just shed a week and a half ago. she just kind of stares out of her tank at me in strike mode in the air. ill walk in and shes like that. its weird. idk im kind of nerves to take her out :( |
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| 09/10/08 08:11pm |
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Barker View Profile |
Message To: Brittanywordisbond In reference to Message Id: 1856397 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
Are you provideing a hide(or two)? Is her tank in a high traffic area? Also a year and a half and only eating one mouse a week doesn’t sound right. Does the mouse leave a small lump after feeding? If not she is probably very hungry. Either up her feeding to every 5 days or move up in prey(this would be the better option). The prey needs to be about the same size or just larger then the largest part of the snake. Randi |
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| 09/10/08 08:24pm |
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Rudds View Profile |
Message To: Brittanywordisbond In reference to Message Id: 1808850 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
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| 09/10/08 09:23pm |
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BCIhandler26 View Profile |
Message To: Brittanywordisbond In reference to Message Id: 1808850 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
what you should do is throw something in there over the the snakes whole body and cover it. Make sure you gently grip your snake by the snake so you can control of the head. Take the snake all the way out of the tank and handle it. Every day it should be handled more and more then on a regular basis. Snakes usually act 100% differently outside of their homes, Has the snake ever bitten you AFTER you have it out of its enclosure? How does it act outside of the enclosure? Also BEFORE you brought this snake did you know what you were getting your self into? How big is the snake do you have any pictures? Also the key to not getting bit is to let the snake bite you when you go to handle it. Yes let it bite you, because the more you show the snake that bites dont scare you off it will stop using this as a scare tatic. Use gloves and long sleeve shirt if need be. |
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| 09/13/08 10:18am |
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New.slang View Profile |
Message To: BCIhandler26 In reference to Message Id: 1858409 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
I agree that snakes can be cage aggressive and act much calmer outside of their cage, that’s what hook training is for. I’ve never heard of throwing something over the snake in order to get it out. I can only see that leading to more stress and an even more agitated and aggressive boa. Get a hook and use it to guide the snake out of it’s cage. If it’s a large boa never use the hook to pick the snake up because it will break ribs. I just use my hook to steer the boa’s head away from me, then I pick it up slowly and take it out of it’s cage, and I’ve never been bitten by any of my boas, including a 6 foot male who hates everything and will try to bite every time I open the cage. Kayla |
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| 09/15/08 09:21pm |
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BCIhandler26 View Profile |
Message To: New.slang In reference to Message Id: 1860686 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
knowin the body langauge will only help when you are about to pick it up or do cleaning around it. how would throwing something over its head make it more stressed? thats exactly what the croc hunter used to do to alligators to relieve their stress when being transported and they were also reptiles so i dont understand why it wouldnt work with snakes. |
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| 09/16/08 05:18am |
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KhyDaF View Profile |
Message To: Gueedo In reference to Message Id: 1815593 Okay my snake completly turned on me.
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| 09/22/08 07:04pm |
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Okay my snake completly turned on me.