Hello Everyone,

Son and I adopted a Ball Python on Thursday 08/18/2016. I found him just on a website people post their animals. A little back ground, When we finally said that we wanted to adopt him, They let me know that he hadn't eaten at all for the month. When we arrived to pick him up he literally just laid coiled up in the palm of our hands. We feed him two feeder mice, We waited 48hrs then tried to hold him. He wouldn't let us get close without him wanting to strike at us. So we fed him another two feed mice yesterday 08/20/2016. Let him sit then today I just went to take a look at see how he was doing, and before I could make it to the enclosure he striked the glass. I kinda thought that it was because they waited so long to feed him. However I am concerned, I havent had a snake in a while. We have all the works for him and in the process for building a larger enclosure. My son is only 4 and he just wants to hold him but it has been really limited. Please may I have suggestions on what you have tried?

Thank you
Sammy~