Quote Originally Posted by Bogertophis View Post
Too much handling! Best results happen when you let a scared new snake time to settle into a scary new home & do not handle them at all until they have

fed three times easily for you and at normal intervals*. *For example: you'd feed a baby snake about once a week, & you should allow a couple days after a

meal before handling so they can digest & don't regurgitate...plus for the first feeding it's often advisable not to feed for the first week while they settle in, so

following that means you wouldn't handle a new snake that eats weekly until you had it for about a month. Compare that to what you've been doing, and I

think you can see why he's stressed & afraid of you. The only thing that normally picks up a snake in the wild is a predator that's about to eat them...& they

learn their way around by feel & scent, less so by vision...so a new home is quite stressful. Also NEVER grab a snake behind the head...that's what predators

DO...so that's what you are, in his opinion. - If you brought a human baby home from the hospital would you take him out to the yard to play baseball?

You need to be way more patient & considerate...this is a living creature. BTW, what kind of snake are we talking about here? And do you have his cage

temperature, humidity & hides all dialed in?
hes a BRB. I have another thread asking for feedback in his set up, so I don't want to repeat it all here. Thanks.