mad snake

[snake-lover]

hi for some reason my snake wont let me hold it every time i go to it strikes at me what should i do?
and one more thing dose anyone have some good pics of what the snakes home should look like for so please help me out weith some pics of the set up thanx
[addsig]

[billycat215]

well lets start off small, and work our way up the ladder of possible mood altering problems for snakes.
1) temp
2) feeding live?
3) what kind of snake
4) any health issues
5) do u feed in the cage.

what i suggest is that u read one of our caresheets, and make sure what ur doing to ur snake, closley resembles what our caresheets specify.
[addsig]

[nomadbean]

My snake bit a lot when I first got her. The way I fixed it was

1) Handle it daily and take the bites...keep neosporin in hand..lol

2) Make sure the bedding is good for her, mine didn't like her bedding and I changed to forest bed with aspen chips and she is much more calm.

3) Patience and a lot of handling

I would also have other with more experience give you some more tech advice. Those are my .02 cents have fun and good luck. welcome to RTB the people here are great!!!
[addsig]

[morti]

There are also a great many caresheets in the left block over there <----

I would link you to a specific one, but I don't know what kind of snake you have.

-Your Sick Uncle Morti.
[addsig]

[snake-lover]

hi it is me again i ahve been rerading what you people are saying to me and it all sounds good i am sorry i did not tell you what kinda snake i had i ahve a rtb and cal king snake that i just cant tame it is always bitting me even when i feed it it dose not care about the food it just wants to bite me any advice with that one?

[addsig]

[Karen85283]

Well is the RTB the one that is biting you or the other one? I have 10 baby rtb's and all except one is a biter. They all have their personalities. How old is your snake? I have the one that only bites when its time to eat. It hisses and strikes and goes mental. Then after it eats you can handle it with no problem. I can see this can be a problem when they get older, so my guess is that I'm going to have to do something about this soon. No matter if you feed him fresh or frozen, you put something in his container he freaks out. I will try feeding outside of it next time and see how he reacts, but my guess is that he may still go crazy. Snakes are wild animals and you just never know. Good luck just keep trying different things and handle him as much as possible to get him over it.
[addsig]