Mainbutter's Top Three Carpet Python Handling Tips:
1) GIVE HIM TIME. All of my carpets are incredibly handleable. All weren't easy to handle from the get-go.
2) "Be the tree" is the mantra I tell anyone who I'm showing my snakes off to. You don't hold the snake, the snake climbs on you, and it goes doubly for arboreal and semi arboreal species.
3) Get a snake hook, I like the ability to stick something in my carpet python cages that isn't radiating heat, full of blood, and may smell like some kind of mammal.
The last one isn't a rule, but a suggestion that has helped me lots. Plenty of people deal with their carpets without snake hooks, but I make use of mine daily.
I do have a rainbow boa that is on the order of "can't be handled without being bit". Snakes like that happen sometime, and all the tips on the internet of how to behave and condition them are good ideas, but never a sure thing. Frankly I really enjoy having just one snake in my collection that puts me in my place
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