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Originally Posted by BarelyBreathing
Amazons are definitely more handleable than emeralds and green trees, but less so than the snakes that you keep. A good handling schedule would be once or twice a week, three times if you keep handling periods short.
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I have to agree. This is one instance in keeping snakes when a schedule would likely prove beneficial. A handling schedule.
While snakes aren't she most intelligent pets, they can certainly learn routines - something like Okay, it's cleaning time so you're coming out and staying with me while I do that whether you like it or not type idea. One is bound to take a few hits, but eventually they realize biting isn't having the desired effect of making their molester put them down and they often stop after they figure that out.
Of course, there's nothing saying it'll ever get over it's attitude, but it's good if it can learn the desired behaviour during the short times it's
necessary to interact with it.
My brongs don't particularly like interaction, but they tolerate the short times they are out dirtying their tubs because they've learned the routine that goes with that particular event. When I want to take them out for no particular reason, I use a different approach so they have a chance at that point to let me know if they're up for it, as opposed to having to submit out of necessity. It's a delicate balance, but it can be done
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