Tips & Tricks

[YungRasputin]

I've never thought of or tried "tickling" the side of a snake's mouth to effect a release- that's interesting- but the tail tip thing, I've been using that for many years- never thought much about mentioning it, so I'm glad you did- it's very effective & I suppose I just thought everyone knew that. I just touch the tail tip- no "rolling"- & it does make most any snake go forward- I'd assume it triggers their instinct to get away from predators that often try to grab a tail tip.

rolling is actually probably a bad way to phrase this in hindsight but it’s more like “rocking” because if you imagine my index finger as a straight line and my thumb as a perpendicular line to my index i basically rock the tip back and forth via my thumb gentler going over the tip in a sort of perpendicular stroke so i’m not like rolling or twisting or nothing - which not saying you’re saying this but i just wanted to rephrase