Disgusting and nasty!

[AkHerps]

My Blood decided to squirm into the couch while I was holding him so I had to take him out, which led to him trying to kill me, and projectile pee and urates exploding into my face, with more of him trying to kill me, which led to me having to restrain him with a towel and try and get him back into his tub. Not a very good experience for either of us.

He has been "mean" since day one and I don't see him getting any better, he only seems to be getting worse, regardless of how often I hold him.

It is very frustrating.

[dragonboy4578]

I can picture the sceen in my head..... Sorry to hear about your blood not calming down. Some just never seem to....

[Tikall]

Don't let this dishearten you... Getting stuck in a couch is just a bad situation, and if you are still working for his trust something like this can set you back weeks. How are you holding him when you take him out? To earn my blood's trust I had to hold him for 10-20 minutes a day for a couple months. I would stick to sitting on the floor with the snake on your lap, with you making minimal movements. Let the snake decide what it wants to do, hissing is perfectly normal. Can't say it will work, but I wouldn't give up.

[llovelace]

You will look back on this event and have a good laugh, hand in there

[mainbutter]

It took me months of no-touch handling (only contact was made with a snake hook) before my blood python stopped going after my face.

She's since calmed down and now seems quite happy to be handled, fairly inquisitive and "explore-y" rather than the tensed-muscles/snap at everything that moved/defensive girl she used to be.

[AkHerps]

I take him out and let him sit on my lap. I don't try to manipulate or manhandle him. This was the first incident where he all out went into crazy snake mode haha.

He is very squirmy and fast and doesn't like to sit still, so keeping him on my lap can be a challenge, but I try to direct him around without peeving him off.

Every time I move him, he gives me that look like, "Hey, I don't think so *huffffffff*"

It's like some days, he will sit on my lap, he's hissy, but he calms down and just lays there. Then other days he's hissing and "running" to try and get away.

I felt really horrible about what happened last night because I know he's probably going to be upset about it. But I have to clean his tub tonight to get all the urates out so he's going to have to hang in there T_T

[AkHerps]

But yes, it was pretty horrible. I had set him on the floor to get a towel and when I came back in the room, he was looking at me and waving his tail in the air like, "Come on, come get some more, I've still got pee left!!"

[Rhasputin]

Another good way to handle an uncomfotable snake, is to put them in a loose bag or a pouch and watch a movie or something with them on you. It'll keep them calm, and they'll get used to being out. Touching them through the bag is good practice too.

You can also sit down, and stick them in your shirt. it sounds silly but it helps.

[Simple Man]

Regards,

B

[Ham]

I can't believe this happened to you...

The exact same situation came up with one of my less friendly bloods, I was trying to let her back in her tub, and she shot out the side and tried to squirm behind my dresser, and it was a mess back there, so I freaked and grabbed her tail, she went insane! She was pulling so hard and her tail started whipping around and she literally sprayed feces and urates directly into my face! It even got in my open eyes! But I struggled through the pain and stink and got her back in the tub, but she tried to nail me in the process, almost bit me in the arm, lol. She is doing better nowadays though, it seemed like she was just going through a bad period as she started to mature towards adult, kinda like puberty was pissing her off, I have heard that they can calm down as they age more...

PS My girlfriend saw the whole thing happen, she was screaming and gagging the whole time! lol... The smell was awful it reeked worse than normal snake poo, I think she must of been musking as well, do Bloods do that? The smell took weeks to dissipate...