Sorry res an old thread, but the wife brought home a new hatchling about a month ago. from day one, if you try to pick the snake up, it's all over the place. it acts more like a garter snake squirming everywhere over a ball python. if you try to hold her more than a min, she'll go to the bathroom on you. Is it just going to be a handle her every day multiple times a day to try to get her to understand that we mean her no harm? We are new to snakes.. The wife started with one back in August, and now we have 9 BP and 6 western hognose. All the hog nose are baby's about 30g each. the BP range from 82g when we got the squirmer up to one that she got that is 1400g.