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My first bredli was exactly the same, a real pain the butt. Just keep getting it out for short periods at at time..... I would get mine out for 5 minutes at a time, 3 or so times a day. Gradually build up the time and it should get use to you and being handled.
 
It's fine, being scared is normal. Fear is a natural instinct to protect us from harm, such as being bitten =p.
 
lol ;) Oh Beno......your value, i'll post ya mine when i get my first morelia's soon. Surely we'll have to start a comp on who gets the best tag. "Pics or it didn't happen rule" :) Good to see your experiences with your first thanks.
 
I wear riggers gloves (soft yellow leather) on my left hand and go bare with the hook.
Hook her out cause its soooooo much easier, then once shes on the glove i use my other hand to handle her.
I cant recommend a hook enough if your scared of getting tagged. having the glove on ur spare hand helps you not react and hurt the snake if it tries to tag you after hooking.

Baby steps, you'll get there in the end (as i will).

have a look at the post other day about olive bite. OMG now thats a bloodfest
 
Hopefully getting a non bitting Julatten Jungle lol,...and an Albino
 
1. Leave him alone for a week or two...and I mean completely left alone apart from refilling water.
2. Let him bite you...get the feeling and worry out of the way. At that age/size...you have nothing to fear, it's more the shock of the strike, not the pain.
3. Handle once a day for short period, slowly he should calm down.
Good luck....and don't worry. Almost all members here have felt the same at some point.
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One of my little jungles was a chainsaw for the first day or so. I let her wear herself out. I want to get bitten by a big one to get it out of the way...
 
Well your going to get that bite out of the way eventually... ;)
 
i had rbb for many years and if kept from birth found i could free handle them like a python and never once got bitten. he was 6 + foot and 10 yrs when i gave him away to john cann. several others ive had over the years were free handled up to a few feet long and never once got tagged, in saying that there isnt many elapids id do this with except had yellow faced whips that could also free handle and a common tiger that was really freindly and never once showed any attempt to bite however i never free handled him always had hook as backup
 
as said mid body holds with hook holding sharp end but as he was very placid never wanting to bite or flattening out etc could have gone all the way > Maybe. John didnt want him because he was to placid and he was always after showy animals, ahh the days herping with him i miss most. one day this little tiger out braidwood way corkscrewed grabbed thankfully his sleeve cuff and hung on for dear life. had to spray him with cold water get him to let go, then spray john LOL. Out piliga way he pulled back the bark on this old euclypt and three pale heads fell out one landing in his hat brim. i bred two off those a few years later releasing young back out at piliga.
 
haha this thread is hilarious!

I'll admit to a fair bit of fear when it came to removing my SW carpet from her enclosure.. she would be S bent up by the time the cage door was open (just a tiny bit cage defensive haha)- and i found i was already afraid before i'd even ventured past the glass, seeing her all bent up like that. So i started sort of..not looking. haha. I would check where she was, then reach my hand in nice and slow until i touched her lowest coil. I found that when she tagged me, it wasnt such a shock and i didnt flinch because i was expecting it, but couldnt see the action of it. It helped me anyway.

I'd definitely recommend a hook too though :) and!- make sure you hold them regularly. When my SWtie was a bub, i held her every day for months and the biting slowly subsided. When i went on holiday to NY for a few weeks, my boyfriend continued to hold her and get her out, however when i came back it was like she'd forgotten me :/ She bit me 6 times in procession when i was trying to get her out the first day back :( i thought at first i may have smelt extremely tasty or something, but that behaviour continued for a good few days until she began to calm down again.

You can also take a bit of care when approaching in the tank- approach from below if you can, avoid the neck area too :) .. also, not sure if you feed your snake inside its enclosure. I've always taken them out and fed them in big plastic tubs- this reduces the chances of your snake thinking its being fed when you put your arm inside the enclosure and wake it up- always a good think imo. I've also found, and all my snakes do this, that as soon as they're placed inside a feeding tub, they go into what i like to call 'hungry mode' - where they go all still and hold their heads slightly elevated with lots of tongue action :p its quite funny to watch, but it definitely puts them on hunting alert!

Good luck and perservere! Think of it as a trusting exercise.. they need time to get to know you and get used to you, and learn that when they're removed from their safe secure home they're not going to be harmed. Some snakes do stay snappy, but not many i think.
 
as far as snappy goes anything moving fast around there head area they will snap at in defence. i have caught many wild pythons and if you go near head on many they strike but go mid body slowly same animal relaxs. Act like a tree as snakes dont bite trees
 
One of my little jungles was a chainsaw for the first day or so. I let her wear herself out. I want to get bitten by a big one to get it out of the way...

ahah i have not even been tagged yet been hissed at once but i keep thinking its going to happen one day and i kinda wish it happened when i first got my SWCP when it was little now its getting bigger its a little bit more intimidating but that much more exciting too
 
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