Does Your Snake HATE The Spray Bottle?

Oh yeah, I mist my hatchlings when they are still in the egg tub and they go nuts!

Mine hate it, too.

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Originally Posted by snakelover91

I don't think this will affect your relationship with your snake/her trust towards you, she probably didn't even connect that it was you who was causing the spray. I hope this isn't offensive to anyone, but I'm not even sure if snakes can tell humans apart very well if at all (PLEASE tell me if I'm wrong I'm not trying to spread false info)... it's more like snakes can tell if a person is confidently, comfortably handling them vs. handling them in a way that scares or hurts them

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It's my opinion based on personal experience that they can tell people apart, at least when it comes to their main caretaker vs anyone else. My boyfriend is far more confident with handling my snakes than I am, but while most of them seem to "like" him, some of mine will strike out if he gets close to them while always perfectly gentle with me. Some of those he's handled and some of them he hasn't. My babies have always seemed comfortable with him, but my new black pastel baby bit him twice the first time he handled him and will strike his tub if my boyfriend walks by. However, he's completely relaxed with me and has never offered to strike at me. Now, my fire female is a different story. She doesn't like being handled at all, but tolerates it from him while she hisses and coils up if I so much as open her tub. So yeah, I think they can tell us apart. Now, I don't think that they can tell one of my friends from another or at least I doubt they can retain memory of random people who don't interact with them often.

Show of hands who like getting sprayed with a garden hose un-announced??

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Originally Posted by coreydelong

Show of hands who like getting sprayed with a garden hose un-announced??

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:D:):D:P

Touche'

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Originally Posted by coreydelong

Show of hands who like getting sprayed with a garden hose un-announced??

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LOL, awesome point. Hell I don't even like getting sprayed announced.

As a matter of fact I used to love playing in the rain, now I rather dislike it. Though the main reason probably is due to the fact my cell phone stays with me. Dang technology.

My super sweet girl actually struck at me yesterday when I misted. I had just fed her 30 min before and wanted to put the hide back so I was kinda shooing her along (she was half into a tree hide, but her tail was in the way) and once she was out of the way I put the other hide down, but her back half was still out. I figured since the humidity was down to 45% and I was there I'd mist and she didn't like that one bit and swung around and struck at me! I was shocked, she's apparently (I just got her recently) never bitten or struck at anyone. She actually stayed there for about 5 min hovering and ready to strike again. She has nearly doubled her weight since I got her and she's doing so well, I think she was too tired and cold with her last owner and now that she's growing and warm, her feisty is coming out LOL

Steve doesn't seem care as long as he doesn't get wet. If he gets wet, he heads inside away from the 'rain'. Once it stops he peeks out to check and goes about his business.

There's no reptile that I've seen that seems to really automatically, immediately, every-single-time love getting sprayed with a spray bottle. Some figure it out after a few squirts that it's water coming at them, and they start to drink, but most will at least twitch if not bolt and try to get away from being sprayed.

Chameleons are a good example. They NEED to be misted; they don't drink from standing water. Every single time water hits the cage, they are completely surprised and hate it up until the moment they realize it's water they're being sprayed with, and proceed to start drinking. Many species of chameleons have casques designed to direct water down into their mouths (Veiled Chameleons being one), so misting them and getting their body wet is a good thing - however, that does not mean they are going to enjoy any part of it.

-Jen

Medusa is not a fan either. She usually makes a beeline for her hide, should she be out when I'm spraying.

You can totally erode trust between you and your ball python. Or between your ball python and "humans in general"--my male black pastel hisses every time I pick him up now, because I once tried to rub off a stuck eye cap when there wasn't one. :( And that was two or three years ago. And my enchi did something similar after being dropped. But if I hand them (or most any of my other snakes) off to someone else, they'll immediately try to get back to me. A lot of them do that "mooooommmm, don't leave me...!" thing, where they reach towards me as I hand them off.

I actually used a spray bottle as negative reinforcement with Mr. Nibbles when he was a baby. Mr. Nibbles was kind of a spiteful biter, and he could make me really angry... but that's really dangerous, when I weighed, what, a hundred times more than he did?

So if he bit me, I squirted him. I doubt it did any good, but it meant I wasn't tempted to pop him angrily on the head for it.

I generally don't spray for humidity, I just dump out some water on the aspen when I see they're in shed. Even doing that, sometimes I get the water on them, and they're clearly not thrilled. But I also do mean things like wash them off in the faucet or toss them in the bathtub if they've gotten mouse guts on their heads or rolled in poo. I can't imagine misting is any meaner than baths.