how often do you hold your snakes?

[HypoPita]

but if their truly exploring, i don't see any harm. and yes some, namly the carpet pythons DO want to explore

i think it depends on the snake itself. but i just have a my small collection and very little experience. i would say they only need to be taken out a few times a week to be socialized, short handling periods and they come around.

Agreed.

This is in the bp section, so I wasn't talking about carpets. I just noticed that almost everyone who has commented about handling their snakes multiple times per day, also almost all have one snake, and almost all have joined in the past 3 months. All of this seems to imply that they are new owners, and probably would not have enough experience to know the difference between stressed and happy yet. It was also being regarded as a good action to have them out multiple times a day because they want to explore. Just felt it was important to point out for the benefit of their animals.