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[marvelfreak]

Originally Posted by LiL_Boa

Very nice lookimg. The irradesents does look like a brb a lot.... Why the gloves?

Ding she looking good and getting bigger. About how long is she now?

I know a guy who wears the latex gloves when handling babies. He said if they bite they will only do it a couple times as they don't like the taste. He swore it was the easiest way to break them of biting when handle. In his 9 years of breeding he only been bit once by a snake over 6 months old.

I personally don't like gloves even with a bitey snake. You just don't have as much control over the snake when handling.

[Swany]

Originally Posted by marvelfreak

Ding she looking good and getting bigger. About how long is she now?

I know a guy who wears the latex gloves when handling babies. He said if they bite they will only do it a couple times as they don't like the taste. He swore it was the easiest way to break them of biting when handle. In his 9 years of breeding he only been bit once by a snake over 6 months old.

I personally don't like gloves even with a bitey snake. You just don't have as much control over the snake when handling.

If it "teaches" them not to bite daddy, it aint a bad thing Marvel.

[ding ding]

Thanks man shes around 3 ft at the min, got her over onto decent size rats easy enough so shes gets one every 2 weeks as it takes a good 5 days for the bump to disappear. And yea man i only wear the latex gloves when cleaning not for handling. I cant stand gloves when handling snakes- soo hard to judge grip and you cant feel what the snake is doing. Plus i tried gloves with a monster ATB i had, she bit the glove and got teeth caught in the fibres. Wasnt fun tryin to unhook her so just not worth it at all and safer for the snake.

[marvelfreak]

Originally Posted by Kayla90

... Incase she bites I assume.. Annie can have quite the nasty bite, they probably have great jaw power just like retics??

Jaw power and raw power. Where a boa or python will bite a through a couple coils around something Anacondas will wrap their whole body around it.

[marvelfreak]

Originally Posted by Swany

If it "teaches" them not to bite daddy, it aint a bad thing Marvel.

True but with babies it makes it hard to tell if i am holding them to tight. I have a bad habit of not knowing my own strength and i am afraid of hurting them.

[Swany]

Originally Posted by marvelfreak

True but with babies it makes it hard to tell if i am holding them to tight. I have a bad habit of not knowing my own strength and i am afraid of hurting them.

Fair point ;-)