Dennis,

Thanks for your reply!

Quote Originally Posted by Hapa_Haole View Post
Handling her every time after she hides may have a training effect on her but I'm skeptical.

More exposure to you in general will ease her up a bit and in time she may stop the recoil act.

I always try to put my snakes back in their enclosures when they're in a chill mode as to not reward spastic escape behavior with being left alone.
I didn't think about the training effect that might have. That is a good point! It would be like possibly positively conditioning his coiling response right?

Okay maybe I will just hang around like you do until he chills out and uncoils. Then proceed with handling him etc..

What would you call chill mode? LOL. The majority of times I hold Tanveer he is usually cruising all over me. He maybe stays still 5% of the time LOL. I usually put him back within 5 to 10 minutes or so because I can't keep with him and all of his movement LOL. Is that more of a stress response with him moving all over the place? I feel like everytime I hold him we are both thinking the same thought "He/she has no clue how to handle me" LOL.

Sigh........it's challenging be new to this.

I feed him today so I won't be handling him for the next 2 days.