Marnie's Snakes

[CrazyHedgehog]

Try wearing rubber gloves for a while, they bite and let go, as they do not like the rubber...after a while they give up biting, also gives you more confidence to pick them up as you know it will catch the rubber not your skin, usually only needed as a temporary solution

[Invisible Snake]

I've used a brand new pair of those yellow dish washing gloves to pick up an adult garter I have who was newly acquired and very defensive. She stopped striking at me but it could be she just got used to me and acclimated to her new home.

[ConcinusMan]

I've used a brand new pair of those yellow dish washing gloves to pick up an adult garter I have who was newly acquired and very defensive. She stopped striking at me but it could be she just got used to me and acclimated to her new home.

I think what it is, is the more you let them bite you, the more they learn it is futile. Some just learn it more quickly than others.

[kueluck]

The fingernail question.................that's a rhetorical question right? Since we all know the answer is yes.

[EasternGirl]

Steve just plain rocks! He is always there to help me when I have no money and need something. Steve...you are the true definition of a friend.

[EasternGirl]

I am now up to 14. Found another one in the basement in the exact same spot...a little bigger than the last one...but this one is a biter. I now have another bandaid on my finger. Fiesty little bugger. I am out of room. I think these last two will be taken to the state park/creek and relocated. Ziggy has to stay because I still think she/he is sick. Athena, of course, will stay because she is just a tiny little thing.

[ConcinusMan]

I am now up to 14. Found another one in the basement in the exact same spot...a little bigger than the last one...but this one is a biter. I now have another bandaid on my finger. Fiesty little bugger. I am out of room. I think these last two will be taken to the state park/creek and relocated.

I wouldn't do that. Those snakes know where they want to spend the winter. They follow scent trails back to the same den every winter. If you relocate them, they will likely wander around lost and end up not finding a den this winter. Relocating now will just doom them.

[RedSidedSPR]

You gotta start charging them room fee's.

[EasternGirl]

Seriously. I am out of tubs for keeping new quarantined snakes and for using as feed tubs. I think I am going to keep that cute little new guy though. He is a sweetie. I'm thinking about naming him Pretty Boy...think it will give him a complex?

[RedSidedSPR]

I'm sure.