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    Re: New BP, help please

    Quote Originally Posted by nagu1rre View Post
    So I just purchased my new BP on Friday. When I first picked her up from my local breeder, she was completely fine when I was handling her. The breeder informed me that it was her feeding day and gave me her meal (live). I brought her home and placed her in a container where she could eat, and she ate no problem.Directly after her feeding, I placed her in her new home and a couple days after, I decided to handle her. She seemed very nervous (as I expected) but I was able to handle her. I decided to handle her again the following night and everything was fine, up until I accidently dropped her (from about 2 ft high). I felt horrible and immediately placed her back in her enclosure. The next day when I tried to handle her, she immediately began hissing, and being a new snake owner, I backed off considering I did not know what to do.So my two questions:How long should I wait to handle her again?Since her last feed was last Friday, how do I go about feeding her this Friday (despite her possible hissing)/ moving her to a separate container to feed her?Also side note, she is 4 months old. Any help is greatly appreciated and thanks a bunch in advance.
    Leave her be until she's fed again and just feed in her cage. No real reason to move to a separate container, will just stress the snake out further.

    Give her a couple days after that before handling and don't take no for an answer if she hisses. She's associating you/humans in general with a fall and she's trying to get you to go away. If you keep leaving her alone it will only reinforce that the hissing works and encourage that behavior.

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