What Time?

I was wondering how you guys felt about handling time for your snakes. Do you think there is a best time of day for them to be handled?

Well with Bp's if i had to pick a time i'd say night time cause thats when they're most active. For your blood i'd say the same time. About 20mins is how long i have mine out unless i don't mind them drapped accross my neck in which i keep them out as long as they're good.
Andrew

Typically I go with late evening so that I'm not going to stress them too much by interrupting their sleepytime. :)

hydra will stay out with me usually an hour or two until i can tell she wants to be left alone. Even then she still doesnt' like going back in her home. And it is usually at night time. I know when to take her out because during the day she is in her hide with only a coil showing. When she is about to get active she will stick her head out of her hide and raise it slightly and flick her tongue. Thats when i know shes ready

Hmmm, you see due to my work hours, I can never get to them at "Prime Time" :cry: I go to work in the afternoon while their sleeping I get home in the wee hours when their sleeping (well my blood is always lounging but hes REAL aware of when I come and go). Any thoughts? Would mid day be better, or 1A.M.? Or maybe a baby moniter sos I can watch em when Im away? :wink:

Jojo comes out of his hide and climbs the walls when i walk by when he wants out.

Paul, I'm sure it's not a big deal what time you take him out. If you have an option, of course, you can try to aim for a time when the snake would be awake and active anyhow...but if you don't have that particular time-slot available, I've never read anything anywhere that says gentle, consistent handling of your snake is bad for them if done during the day. If I tried to wait for Caesar to be "up" from always sleeping...I'd never get him out. I figure if he gets to sleep the other 23 hours a day, then it won't hurt him to be up with me whichever hour I choose. LOL

Paul, I'd either go for the 1 AM to sunrise time period or manipulate the light that your snakes are exposed to so that their schedule gradually matches yours.

I typically take Ozzy out around 9-1am and handle for a min of 10 mins sometimes up to 30min.
If I waited for him to be up I would only handle him about once or twice a week so I just lift up his hide and lift him out.
He is so use to the routine now he doesn't even bother to ball or curl up at all ( Yeah!).
I typically handle about 15-20 on feed night then I don't handle again for about 72 hrs. because he really becomes a lazy bum and sleeps in his warm hide for at least 24 hrs after eating.
Also I never pull him out of his warm hide ( just my own deal)

How is your blood to handle??? nice or evil? :)

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How is your blood to handle??? nice or evil?

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So far so good although unlike Plissken, he turns his head to watch EVERYTHING I do when Im sticking my hand in to touch/pick him up.However after reading this from Alex Hue

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I remebered the first time one of my 8 foot Boas bit me after never ever even attempting too strike since I raised her from birth....very unpleasant experience.

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I realise it just comes with the territory, but its worth it now I can feel like Im steve Irwin :P Krikey!

I don't have the ablity to handle mine in there hours of wake. But I take them out whenever. But it is usally in the eveing. And they don't seem to mind at all. But when I handle them it is for about an hour to two hours.

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Originally Posted by JLC

If I tried to wait for Caesar to be "up" from always sleeping...I'd never get him out. I figure if he gets to sleep the other 23 hours a day, then it won't hurt him to be up with me whichever hour I choose. LOL

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Man Judy do I know this feeling!! Hissy is SUCH a bum!! Sometimes we have to lift up her hide just to make sure she is still alive! LOL!! She sleeps CONSTANTLY! It is pretty funny. She doesn't even hardly explore anymore now that she knows she is gunna get fed every wednesday. So, whenever I feel like spendin some time with my special girl, I just pick up her hide & play with her. I used to say that I would never take her out from under a hide but I quickly found out that if I stuck to that, I would never spend any time with her at all! I tell ya though, as soon as I put the food under the heat lamp for a minute, she pops right out & starts that tongue flicherin away!!

When I handle my bps at night, they are always more energetic and eager to explore, say, the depths of the couch cushions. But if I take them out during daylight, they seem to just sit there and do nothing. But my bci is active whenever I take him out. Usually I handle them at night when the BF and I are sitting watching TV.