using snake gloves

Do you use them?
What kind do you use if so
What animal do you use it on?

My snake's hands never seem to get cold enough for gloves. :8:

Sorry, couldn't resist. :P I personally don't use them, but I could see where they would be handy (pun intended) for snakes like White-Lipped or an aggressive larger snake (Boa, retic, burm).

I use gloves on certain snakes. I do not have "snake gloves", I have a pair of thick rubber gloves that is used for heat. They are too thick for the snake to bite through. My wife and partner calls me a sissy. I am 6'4" 325lbs (Fat Boy) and use gloves to handle a ball python. I have a couple that will bite you everytime you handle them. Once they bite the gloves and realize they didn't hurt me they are fine. If I handled them without the gloves I really believe they would continuously bite me the whole time I was holding them.

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Originally Posted by FatBoy

I use gloves on certain snakes. I do not have "snake gloves", I have a pair of thick rubber gloves that is used for heat. They are too thick for the snake to bite through. My wife and partner calls me a sissy. I am 6'4" 325lbs (Fat Boy) and use gloves to handle a ball python. I have a couple that will bite you everytime you handle them. Once they bite the gloves and realize they didn't hurt me they are fine. If I handled them without the gloves I really believe they would continuously bite me the whole time I was holding them.

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No shame there I still flinch when baby's that take a swing at me

I dont use gloves but I have to admit when I get one that moves really fast for some reason, I still flinch or jerk my hand away, even if it's a hatchling!

I use gloves for my anacondas, and some of my other less than friendly snakes.. I've got several pairs, but my favorites are a pair of elbow length dog bite gloves (we got them at our groom shop, and I decided I needed a pair. lol)

I have a 20" BP that hasn't even "balled up" or struck since I've had him, so I obviously feel no need for gloves. Also, I have freakishly warm/clamy hands that he seems to love curling up in. :cool:

I am thinking about getting some gloves myself. My whole thing is I don't know how I would react to my snake biting me. I wouldn't want to hurt him by flinching and dropping him.

I have never used snake gloves actually.

Now as for flinching..(seen a few mentioning)..Normally I can see it coming..I just know I am not going to be fast enough to get away..I just take it. I am always afraid to hurt their teeth by jerking.

But it they come out of no where or at my face yeah I do flinch.;)

I have a pair of gloves I use sometimes to handle one of my more 'enthusiastic' ball pythons. They are nothing more than gardening gloves though, and are really only for my own piece of mind. I know that, owning snakes, I am going to get bitten at some point, they just help me have more confidence handling. I wouldn't say that I need them but rather, they are like a security blanket for my wussy self.

Only used gloves with one of ours when we first got him for a time or two. We just used a brand new pair of goat skin leather gloves. (I use these a lot in my line of work, but a used pair would be way contaminated with stuff I don't think ball pythons would like.) I'm pretty sure I will get bit eventually and just decided I will have to learn to deal with it. Now I do plan on using gloves the first time I try to take a clutch of eggs from mama and put them in the incubator as I don't think mama will be happy about that!