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Paulm4095

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I have had my corn for 2 weeks and i have been taking him out twice a day once when i wake up and once before igo to bed. He seems to be getting better once held but the problem is getting him in my hand.If i just go straight for him and try to pick him up he gets all scared and has striked onece. I do not ever approach from top but underneath. I was wondering if any suggestions on how to pick him up or how to make this better. I usually let him smell my hand and he will just sit there smelling it and never move till scared and then he runs a round cage and i eventual get him. Any suggestions would help
 
don't worry about it...this is how young corns act. Its completely normal for them to be scared, you're huge! As they grow, they grow accustomed to being handled, and begin to relax. So definitly expect them to try darting away, and even become a little defensive and try to strike. It isnt that your corn needs to be tamed, it just needs time to become comfortable with the idea that you arent a predator about to eat it.

A few notes...moving your hand in from the bottom and side are more comforting to a corn, because grabbing from above is very much like a predator snatching. More comforting but still a bit unerving for sometime. Also, try handling once a day instead of three times a day. Your corn needs time after handling to relax and regain its composure. knowing that you are coming for it every few hours is a stressful thing!

Good luck...hope this helped! :)
 
something that worked real well with mine was letting him come out on his own. His one hide is this pot/vase thing thit he can actually crawl into, rather than just under. So what I'd do is get the entire hide out and set it on my lap while I was watching TV or something (this tends to take awhile, so get comfy and find a way to keep yourself busy without having to move around too much), then after awhile, he felt comfortable enough to come out on his own. Like I said, this can be time-consuming though, sometimes he'd wait 20 minutes or half an hour before he decided it was safe to come out.
 
Roy Munson said:
I'm old school. I use a chair and a bullwhip. I don't take no sass from no hatchling.
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LOL.. yeah i just scoop mine up no matter what.. that way he knows whos boss. I don't HURT him, im gentle. but i don't hesitate, i find if you hesitate they realize they can push you and get a little more aggressive. He still darts away sometimes but a lot of times he will lift his head up to me.. lol. Hes getting more tamed every time i pick him up.
 
ashleynicole said:
LOL.. yeah i just scoop mine up no matter what.. that way he knows whos boss. I don't HURT him, im gentle. but i don't hesitate, i find if you hesitate they realize they can push you and get a little more aggressive. He still darts away sometimes but a lot of times he will lift his head up to me.. lol. Hes getting more tamed every time i pick him up.
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Well, I may have exaggerated on the first part about the bullwhip, but not on the second part about taking no "sass" from a hatchling. Like you, I just scoop them up, and for the same reason you gave: so they know who's boss. I'm up to 19 corns at the moment, and even though I've got breeding plans for most of them, they're still pets. As such, I like to handle them all as much as possible. But with 19, I don't have time to do this on their terms. In the end, they all end up "dog tame" as mdorfer states it. My two early '05 hatchlings/juveniles don't even blink when I swoop in on them; of course, they don't have eyelids, so....
 
What if he bites u as you pick him up. Wont he learn to bite and become more scared and defencive while holding instead eventually pick him up. I have tried the scoop method 3 times and each time i have been striken at imidiatly at the attempt. Any suggestions
 
Nope. They'll get over it. My one psycho female used to bite, tail rattle and musk every time I took her out. Serious case of P.M.S. She got over it. She's still not as tame as the rest of my yearlings, but she no longer strikes and musks, and she only tail rattles after feeding.
 
I only have one snake... But I made it an official rule to never ever take him out of a hide. I think this helps with the snake not being afraid of you. If I go to pick him up and he darts into his hide, I wait until he comes back out. I never lift the hide out of the cage. I want to let him know that he always has a safe place to go if he's scared.

So far, he jumps and twitches sometimes when I touch him (he's 3 months old). But he no longer tries to hide when my hand is in the cage, so I think it's working.

And I try to keep the bright lights off in the room when I have him out. And generally just try to move slow and carefully.
 
I only hold my snakes 48 hours after feeding and just go in there and pick them up when they are cruising around thier containers.I have never been bitten and I have found that they are beginning to calm down with regards to slinking away from me!!I haven't held them for more than five minutes at a time neither for fear of annoying them too much!!!V
 
Slippery Ernie said:
I only have one snake... But I made it an official rule to never ever take him out of a hide. I think this helps with the snake not being afraid of you. If I go to pick him up and he darts into his hide, I wait until he comes back out. I never lift the hide out of the cage. I want to let him know that he always has a safe place to go if he's scared.

If I waited for my little one to come out from under her hide, I'd never hold her. She does like to be out though, and will attempt to crawl back out when I go to put her back, so taking her out from under her hide doesn't seem to put her off. Once she figures out she's not coming out anymore, she just goes back under it.
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I have an anery that has bitten me a couple of times and had bitten the previous owner too, so when I put my hand in his tank I usually make a fist at first so it will look too big to be a food object. (Both times I got bitten he tagged my fingers.) I let the snake smell me and then pick him up. He is really quite tame, it's just he's got a feeding response issue!
 
Any tips on taming a 3 year old...

he is nuts he tried to bite me one day and tried so hard he flew out of his cage...(they are visionariums, with sliding doors)
 
SnakeLuvrs said:
Any tips on taming a 3 year old...

he is nuts he tried to bite me one day and tried so hard he flew out of his cage...(they are visionariums, with sliding doors)
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Are you sure thats a corn you got and not a pitbull in disguise??? :grin01:
 
viktoria333 said:
Are you sure thats a corn you got and not a pitbull in disguise??? :grin01:
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LOL yeah...

here is a pic of him being difficult...(this was a good day)

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How long have you had him?Has he always been like that?I've never come across attitude like that apart from a six month old corn that decided to take a nice bite out of my hand!!The other time I got bit was purely my own fault..I was given the job at work some years ago now to feed the reps as no one else would do it..I had no formal training..A two ft boa,they told me to feed it a pink..[Should have been a hopper/small mouse] but they are misers.No tongs provided.U get the drift??To add insult to injury I fell off the ladder I was perched on..LOLGlad my two don't behave like that!!!V :grin01:
 
I have an "uptight" classic corn. I named her Maxine after the cranky lady on the hallmark cards. My nieces renamed her meanie maxinie. Anyways when I got her I eld her for 5 minutes every day whether she wanted to or not. When I reached into her tank I just scooped her up without hesitation. I found when I hesitated it gave her a chance to strike. She is still on edge 1 year later but alot better. She still rattles her tail at me but that is about the extent of it. I hold her all the time but I think corns know who you are because she won't let anyone else hold her. I tried to let a friend hold her and Maxine got upset.

slippery ernie said:
But I made it an official rule to never ever take him out of a hide. I think this helps with the snake not being afraid of you.
If I waited like that I would only be able to hold my corns in the middle of the night. Neither one of them come out in the day very often but they are always out at night when the lights are off.
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<hijack> I havent even seen my anery since I got him yesterday morning. I dont even think that he came out last night. I am assuming he is still hiding below the aspen. Is that normal? I am assuming it is. Maybe I am just anxious to see him moving around instead of constantly staring at an empty viv. </hijack>
 
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