hi i have just got my first abberant cail king 08 snake and a bit on the keen side will it carm down . whats the best way 2 handel it

i have a snake who is very detyermined and usually refuses to calm down for about 2 hours.... he has all the energy in the world and i love him to bits but he just finds it soooo hard to calm down and all he tries to do is escape his tank.

in this situation if i were to try and get him out of his tank i would have to open his tank doors and let him come out to me instead of me going in to him because if i go to him he does get worse and like its impossible to keep hold of him even though i can keep hold of him when he is like that but noone else can. if i were to let him come to me , he would still be troublesome but not as much as if i were to go to him.

once i get him out i have to try hold him for ages for him to calm down before i let others hold him because he seems o get extremely attatched to me. like last night he tried escaping again until i got him out and he went absolutely spare for about an hour then realised who i was and started to calm down a little - was still manic but calmer.

this behaviour seems to have gotten worse after the great escape a few weeks ago....
we found him behind the fridge in the kitchen and i consaulted a specialist and she advised to leave him in his tank on his own alone for about a week or so to let him setlle back in so we did and ya know he calmed down for a few weeks ... then my boyfriend came in and stole alot of my attention now my snake has slipped back into old ways and it hurts ya know .

i have to choose either

snake orrr boyfriend?
itis one i must think on.

hope this info helps too.
rachael

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I have a pair of Boa Constrictor Longicauda, the male is tame but the female can cause problems on her off days. She was quite tame to start with but due to breeding attempts she wasnt handled unless neccessary. She is nine foot now and quite a handful to hold if bitty.

I read one good way to handle aggressive snakes is a method called "killing the hunt". This involves using a board or something to tap the snake on the nose, at this point the snake backs off then it is much easier for me to handle her. This works brilliantly with my female, i have never treid it with other snakes as all of my others are tame.

Hope this helps, ConstrictorCrazy.

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i got a yellow rat snake and have had him for 3 months, he is 15 months old i try to handle him daily but sometimes he rares up an strikes me other times i get him out and hold him for about 15 min then he bites me for no reason he`s a right little nipper how can i tame the little bugger cos he the only snake to bite me out of the other 4 i have the royal python is soppy as hell and both corns are placid but the yellow rat snake is the most nippiest little sod i have,

There is only one of our Royals that's likely to have a pop and that is the '07 granite female. She is very hissy and hates strangers. She used to have a go at me on a regular basis when I first had her nine months ago, but with careful handling has calmed down now to the point where she only does it if I do something really silly and freak her out. Of the others, the Amazon female is very nervy. She has only popped at me a couple of times when she didn't know me, but if I pushed my luck with her I know she'd bite, so I keep handling to a minimum and treat her with respect. Likewise the Macklots female, who can be quite bloody-minded when she feels like it. With her it's definitely a case of watching her body language and being very careful. I'm not a fan of being bitten and certainly wouldn't want to be bitten by her. She's a powerful snake and I think it might hurt! I had a male ATB who could be a bit of a tartar, but usually managed to handle him without a bite, if I had to. I find that taking the line of least resistance is best, and to be honest if I've been bitten by any of them it's usually because I've got too blasé.

Royal python do you feed her live food? Just wondering why she is so agressive.

I Recently got a macklots python she's about 1yrs old now and was so agressive
when I got her home and in her viv I couldn't evan go near the viv without her stricking the glass
I'm no expert but I've noticed that pythons seam to be more agressive in the viv
Well my macklots was anyway I left her to settle in for A WEEK then started to try and handle her
I had no luck trying to pick her up in the viv so 1 day I left the viv open just a little and sure enough
She poped her head out to take a look around the living room I slowly moved my hand towards her and she just used me as a branch I put her back after about 20 mins and repeated doing so for longer each day
It took a few weeks but now I can pick her up in the viv MOST of the time but when she dosent wanna come out she let's me know

Remember to ALWAYS WASH YOUR HANDS BEFORE HANDLEING evan if you haven't been handleing food for your snake!

And if you do get biten try NOT TO RIP YOUR HAND AWAY some snakes teeth curve inwads so their prey can't escape
You could damage your snakes teeth it will let go a soon as it knows your too big

Also I've herd that feeding snakes in their vivs makes them more agressive ?