Help with aggressive snake please!!

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Lolololol yes absolutely! All those unboxing videos are clearly not what they appear to be lol

In all honesty though after thinking some more this afternoon I know that my problem was the disappointment I had when I opened the boxes. All of my other snakes were also shipped and none of them were this defensive! I was able to hold them and inspect them and show them to my family and spend some time with the snakes before putting them in their tubs. No waiting until they de-stress....I could handle them daily and they were all very calm and mellow.

The He difference is that this time I got my snakes from big breeders and I didn’t account for this. I know large breeders don’t spend much time with their snakes besides cleaning and feeding so they are not used to people. My other snakes came from very small breeders that handled them daily and knew all of their temperaments. When this snakes arrived they weren’t afraid of me and not nearly as stressed out as my new snakes are.

And no only 2 of the snakes I got today are juveniles/babies....the Mojave Pied is freaking huge at 1 1/2 years old so imagine my joy opening the box and gently grabbing him from the bag (like I did with all my past snakes) only to be lunged and nipped at multiple times. It scared the :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r: out of me Haha

So yes they will eventually be tamed and yes I will get better at handling them and probably get to celebrate my first bite ever lol

It just sucks because tomorrow I’m getting more snakes and now I don’t be want to open the boxes lol

Wear gloves, or use a towel if you feel jumpy. After my first bite (a nothing bite from a corn snake that barely bled), I was nervous around my OWN snakes for almost two years. Personally, I think the fear is hard wired (at least in me) and the bite tripped that on. Before that, I hadn't worried at all. Post bite, any snake head pointed anywhere near me sent a reflexive stab of fear and panic that I couldn't control. For a long time, I only handled them when necessary, and always with snake hooks. I was terrified that I would simply throw the snake off me if the head came near me. I didn't want to risk injuring the animal. I was jumpy and nervous, which made them jumpy and nervous.

After deciding I was going to fix that problem, I made it a point to handle most of my snakes each day, with leather gloves, and while watching YT videos of people nonchalantly handling THEIR snakes. The videos got my focus off the animal I was holding. After a while, the stabs of fear just went away. Took consistent and daily work, but I got over it (99%).

Hope that helps.