Quote Originally Posted by giaach View Post
I understand where you are all coming from. Believe me, if I didn't trust this guy I would have never let him even hold him. While we were talking he told me how snakes do the same thing in the wild. This guy isn't in his early 20s being a cocky college student. He actually went back to school after working at the columbus zoo and all around the americas for 5 or so years. What the snakes do in the wild involves 2 trees or branches. They wrap their tail around one branch and reach out for the other and basically stretch themselves out, re-aligning their back. Sometimes they do it when your holding them. They might wrap tightly around your arm.
When I said cracking the snakes back, thats not a literal term. He held the snake with both hands, massages its sides and then slid his fingers down the length of the snake back and by doing this ever so gently it aligned the snakes spine.
He actually stopped doing it and the snake took matters into his own hands and proceeded to stretch himself out the way he had described.
Ask your freind to join here and show us writting proof of these methods and if its a proving technique then we will apologize.If your freind refuses to show us this proof then in my opinion he is passing on lies and needs to never allowed to be around any animals.Until then i stand firm on this technique being a bunch of elephant poo