First time parents - Now what

[Snake lover 3-25]

wow that's great help!!!!!! i will use ALL of that for Sooty's babies!!!!! thank you so much!!!!!!

[anji1971]

Oooops, we'll have to stop bugging them then. My one remaining non-eater ( the other ate a whole pile of worms last night) is very nervous to begin with, so maybe I'd better stop trying to handle him so much.
I'm not handling the ones we're releasing other than to relocate during enclosure cleaning.
Good to know, Wayne!

[infernalis]

Sadly, a lot of what I learned was through failures.

Ever witness a grown man try to give mouth to mouth resuscitation to a baby snake??

There is a wonderful product that I found, it is cheap, and attractive but best of all the safest thing I have found for little babies.

Cage carpet! Nothing for them to ingest, and loads more attractive than newspaper.

Now, this I have witnessed, more than once.

We raised some little babies up for 8 months, hand fed, handled, all of it.

Then we released them, weeks later when found, they were fully wild!

One even coiled up and pretended to be a rattlesnake, so there is no fear of "taming" them, once they hit the wild, instinct will take over just fine.