Hook training isn’t going so well.

[Team Slytherin]

I swear he does this to spite me








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[Neal]

I'm not sure if you're familiar with using a hook or hook placement so I'll offer my advice.

If you use the hook, and get it in the proper place then you can tail him as we venomous people call it. In the third picture where the hook is going up where the snake is touching the hook, if you use the hook around that part of the curve, and you hold his tail you can hook a lot easier. In truth though, snakes can make using a hook easy or difficult.

With my cobra, when I tail him he will wrap his tail around my wrist, this is one thing you don't want them to do because then they can easily use that to pull themselves back to you quickly, so I try not to let him even do that, and that's a habit you will have to break him of if you're hook training him.

[CALM Pythons]

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Hahahahaha


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[SDA]

The struggle is real LOL

They do this on purpose I swear! Sometimes it doesn't matter how you use the hook, they see it as an escape and rush toward it. It does get better.

Edit: anyone who tries to tell you how to hook train an arboreal without ever owning an arboreal has no idea what an arboreal can do!

[AbsoluteApril]

Edit: anyone who tries to tell you how to hook train an arboreal without ever owning an arboreal has no idea what an arboreal can do!

lol totally!
Sometimes when taking out the ATBs for cleaning, I put them still wrapped on the hook into the temp tub. I just avoid the face snaking back up, put in the tub with the hook say "okay fine, just keep it then."

[zina10]

I think its going very well !!!

Your baby is helping you to bring the hook along! Impressive !!

[Team Slytherin]

The struggle is real LOL

They do this on purpose I swear! Sometimes it doesn't matter how you use the hook, they see it as an escape and rush toward it. It does get better.

Edit: anyone who tries to tell you how to hook train an arboreal without ever owning an arboreal has no idea what an arboreal can do!

Yep. This is basically my life now.



Earlier, I just picked him up and let all the computer wires he was holding drag across the floor as we walked because the struggle is exhausting I don’t even think he always has conscious control of his tail...it’s like a separate entity. He accidentally coiled it around his face once and freaked out


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[Sauzo]

'Hook training' doesnt necessarily mean you have to use a hook. You can use anything that breaks the feed mode of an enthusiastic snake. Honestly you shouldnt be trying to carry a snake with a snake hook, you use them to control the snakes head or in the case of large constrictors, to tap train them. I tried a hook on Caesar and it was the only time i ever saw him coil up, raise up, open his mouth and hiss loudly. He HATED it. I switched to a twisted paper towel which he was fine with when he was a baby. I now have a hook sitting in the corner as none of my other snakes ever needed a hook. I just used the paper towel or just leave the door open a few mins. Once they realize food isnt coming, they quickly calm down.

[Team Slytherin]

'Hook training' doesnt necessarily mean you have to use a hook. You can use anything that breaks the feed mode of an enthusiastic snake. Honestly you shouldnt be trying to carry a snake with a snake hook, you use them to control the snakes head or in the case of large constrictors, to tap train them. I tried a hook on Caesar and it was the only time i ever saw him coil up, raise up, open his mouth and hiss loudly. He HATED it. I switched to a twisted paper towel which he was fine with when he was a baby. I now have a hook sitting in the corner as none of my other snakes ever needed a hook. I just used the paper towel or just leave the door open a few mins. Once they realize food isnt coming, they quickly calm down.

Haha, well the title is largely a joke. I don’t think he’s the kind of snake that can be “broken” of a feed response while in the viv, unfortunately Other scrub owners I’ve spoken to say it’s just typical of the species. He hates being touched with the hook so much that I think I’m just better off using a glove to get him out.

The funny thing is, while getting him out he is just viv defensive. Then he becomes a little cuddle monster. It’s when you put him BACK that he goes into feeding mode. It’s insane. His pupils get huge, he snatches his tail from my hands, squares up and just opens his mouth at me.

I mean, clearly he long ago realized that I always hold him before feeding (since I’ll miss him for the next couple days after a meal!). But he gets put back without food more often than he gets fed! He’s just a bottomless pit.

This is him, still holding on to me while assuming the position




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[fieldfare]

I swear he does this to spite me








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Oh I don't know, I think he's got a lot of promise as a pole dancer, especially in that last pic, lol!