[Tori]

I am another that handles only when necessary (for cleaning, feeding, examining, photos, etc) And for 99.9 % I would have to say they only tolerate being held, but there is always the exception. I have one female eastern that I tried to release when she was very young. She refused to leave the area that I released her in. I had opened the carrier that I had her and several others in and left it for 3 hours before coming back for the container. She was still laying beside it. I sat in the grass beside her and she immediately climbed into my lap repeatedly. She just wouldn't leave even after being carried inside the edge of the woods she came back to the container and then into my lap. I decided it was too late to release her and brought her back home. To this day she won't eat unless I let her out of her cage and hold her food for her, after which she goes back into her cage by herself. Well, all of that just tells me that there is always an exception.