We are new to the world of snakes and recently brought home a ball python, about 6 months old. We should have known better, but believed the employees at the reptile store where we purchased him that he couldn't catch a respiratory infection from a sick snake that he was housed with.

Well, fast forward a week and our poor little guy is yawning a lot and making clicking noises when he breathes and occasionally mouth breathing. The temp in his cage is about 92 on the hot side and 80ish on the cool side (never below 80). Humidity between 50-60%. So we took him to a vet who gave us something starting with an "a" (an injection every three days for a month - fuzzy on the med details, husband went to the vet).

Apparently he REALLY did not like getting a shot. IS there a "best" way to do it? Will he become aggressive and think we're trying to hurt him any time we try and get him out to handle him?

He's eaten fabulously the two times we've fed him so far, so that's not an issue, but we're really concerned about his future behavior as we also have a 6 year old who is just fascinated with the BP.

Any help or advice is appreciated.