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Any hot that ever make's it's way to my collection will actually be more of a "luke warm" [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] At least until my son turns 18 and my exwife can't make it an issue. hehe.
Thanks J ...that is yet another good example of Darwinism.....Please people....If you have hots..Don't drink and herp. Friends don't let friends herp hots drunk.
Some other skills to master before considering even handling hots:
Hooks. You have to be an excelent snake hook operator. There is much more to it than it may seem too..Practice control and know exactly where to hook a snake so he is balanced and won't have to wiggle around to correct hisself or how to hook the upper 1/3 and hold the tail in the other....without getting bitten. Practice.
Tubes. Learn to tube a snake safely. By tubing, I don't mean tube feeding...I mean the clear tubes you have them crawl partially into so the biting end is contained and the rest of the body is there for your probing, injecting or otherwise medicating pleasure. This can usually be done by placing the snake on the floor and holding the tube at a 45 degree angle up agaisnt a wall...and guiding the snake to it with a hook...they usually try to go around it but with good hook placement you can turn them back into it and they will start crawling right up. This method works for pit vipers anyway. I have no experience with faster moving cobras or mambas that tend to want to chase their keepers around the room.
Cage security. If you have made a post over the past 6 months to a year about your cornsnake that escaped .... think twice before putting a mamba in the same kind of setup. I know that's a big DUH....but it happens. Also...little hands go places where you would never expect no matter what you tell them and no matter how many times they say "I KNOW" Kids will open cages. Lock the cage. Lock the door. Duct tape the kids to a chair if you have to. Mambas and kids are a bad combination in most households.
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