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Attitude problem???? :S

I bought my gloves specifically for snake stuff. They are made of neoprene and nylon. I wash them so they aren't really unsanitary.

I used them when I first started to handle my first hatchling so that she would get used to being picked up but my scent wasn't really overpowering. I got the idea from someone in these forums but it was a couple of months ago.
 
I have some issues with one of my new snakes she likes to strike at me whenever I go to take her out. As for gloves well I have been using one to take her out then let her go onto the ungloved hand so far this has been sort of working as far as handling but we still have not really bonded I guess cause Im still using the glove to get her out. Time and patience good luck.
 
well umm my snake now that i can finally handle him he seems to feel safe only around me like if im holding him and my dad tries to like have him go on his hand he starts flipping out and like backs away same thing when i got the camera too near and stuff
 
my snake would rattle his tail un the substrate and strike at me when i first got him. but i handle(d) him often anyways. now he doesnt mind getting picked up, he even swam strait to my hand today when i was going to take him out of the tub...
 
It can help if you try to be very deliberate about how you handle him. Whenever you are going to try to let him move from your hand to your Dad's (or from one hand to another), let your Dad keep his hand completely still then move the hand that you are holding him with, instead of reaching having Dad reach towards the snake with his hand in the snakes' field of vision.

They are instinctually afraid of things coming from overhead (or at least that is a popular theory), and although they don't have perfect vision they can see when a big shape is coming towards them - which could understandably be a bit frightening.

When I pass my corns from hand to hand, I generally try to keep my free hand still and only move the hand that the snake is already laying on.
 
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