Nervous about handling my BP

[Evilme5229]

Well, I can tell you I'm suffering this myself with one of my new hatchlings. Shes a really snippy because shes a baby. But boy I'm scared of her! The one time I got tagged it wasn't even my own snake. I was looking at a pastel female at my distributor. I felt shes was really really tense. I wasn't paying any attention to her in my hands, because I was talking to my friends and didn't even feel it. All I felt was that she "moved" quick and repositioned herself. lmao. I just noticed a little blood and said,"yep, not going to get this one." lol

I think that part one is seeing his behavior while you are handling him. If hes really tense like I described with the one time I got tagged it could be more advisable of putting him down. I have 14 snakes at this point in time and take tons of time in making sure that I'm not doing anything to provoke any odd behaviors. That one hatchling I don't know what her problem is except shes a baby. lol. I bet you anything I will probably get tagged by her at some point by her. lol.

Its going to take some time for you to get past it, but if I were you I would just try and pick him up as much as possible. Its not odd that you feel uncomfortable about him coming close to your face, I only really trust a few of my snakes to do that. My ghost is my sweetheart and don't mind whereas two of my female norms I'd rather not. lol.

The more you handle the more you will get back the comfortablility in my mind. Stay positive and don't be hard on yourself and everything will be just fine. :-)