How to Quickly Tame/Socialize Your Pet Snake with Multiple Examples

What's up everyone, Jason from Jason's Exotic Reptiles? I'm back. I apologize. It's been a while since I've made a video, so I'll try to make a couple today so I can keep uploading them throughout the week. I'm going to do a video on how to handle or how I guess

tame

your

pet reptile, so this will focus specifically on

snake

s. I have a few different

examples

. I have a Burmese python, a couple different boa constrictors, and a corn.

snake

, the approach will be the same for all of them, it's basically about taming them, you will have to handle them, the more time you spend with them the better, although there is this kind of love hate relationship between them. them in a place where you really don't want to hold them too much because you can stress them out specifically when they are babies, so you definitely want to have a consistent handling schedule if this is going to be a pet of

your

s in the future, specifically if it's going to be a large pet, a Burmese python, a reticulated python, even a boa constrictor, these guys get really big or pretty big, you know, in the bowl they restrict the range in the five to seven foot range for a snake, some people may consider it that small.

Some say it's huge. so we're going to go over a couple different snakes, we're going to show you how to handle them, the approach to picking them up, dropping them and just having a positive relationship, a positive interaction with the snake, which is going to be key to socializing your reptiles, every interaction should be positive. Even if it's a stressful interaction for the snake, if you feel like you're getting a little overwhelmed and the snake starts to get flighty, just give it back, it's fine, you might as well leave it. so instead of the snake starting to bite and then getting scared, so really all you need to do is hold them and that's the approach for most reptiles with the exception of some, some lizards and lizards. monitors, friendlier. of higher thinking animals, you almost have to earn their trust, so it's a little more labor intensive, it's more of a process for something like a water monitor or something.

Snakes for the most part, the more frequently you handle them the better. Again, with a limit because you don't want to stress them out, so it's about creating that interaction between you and the animal that knows that okay, this big thing is coming to pick me up and I'm going to stretch out. I'm going to climb on chairs, maybe I can have a fake plant or maybe have a plant that you put the snake on, let it curl up and get some exercise. It's about being positive with the snake so that when the snake sees you and associates you, it associates you with something positive.

If you go in there and grab it behind the head and it's stressed, it scares everything every time that snake sees you, it's going to say how. If he doesn't want anything to do with it he's going to try to escape he's going to try to bite he gets very defensive because these animals aren't they have no reason to like you they also have no reason to hate you they really just don't I don't know anything about you so specifically as babies, if you are new snake owners, I always recommend purchasing a baby snake. If you have a baby snake, you know it's kind of a clean slate.

I like to use that term for reptiles, it's these things. They are clean blobs when they are born, they are naturally afraid of anything bigger than them in the wild, anything bigger than them can usually eat them, so they see you as a predator, you need to do it so they realize that. Hey, this person isn't that bad, he gets me up, lets me stretch, I can hang out and have a good time, so I'm going to go through a couple of snakes. I'm going to turn the camera. Leave her. the view of the snake so you can see what I'm doing with my hands you can see how the snake interacts instead of me picking up a box like this and taking it out I'll say this because people keep commenting no they don't live in she.

These boxes that I have here are specifically so that I can take them out and show them to you and I can have easy access to them without running around here like crazy, so I'm going to pause the video, turn it around and put it on top so the guys can see what's passing, okay, everyone, so we'll be back. I have my snakes here. I have some by my side. I have this guy here. I'm going to show them to you one by one, so this is a Peruvian picalpa bow constrictor. This is a pure red tail a bcc so you can see the snakes hissing so it's not a happy snake.

This is a very good example. I chose this snake because I knew it's not a really happy snake, so I can show you how I go. addressing this for a snake that you can see clearly doesn't want to be handled and I wish I could show you this as a time lapse, as you'll see in some other videos that I have, you're going to have a baby. snakes that were defensive and now I'm holding them as adults and they're not anymore, so what I'm going to do is give them a gentle tap on the head and that just changes this little response.

I'm going to go under his back and just gently lift him up and it's very important when you do this to stay calm. The snakes are fine, the snake is nervous, much more nervous than you will ever be, so if it gives in, yes. it gives you a little defensive bite, that's fine and you just hold the snake, you know, you hold it, let it crawl through your hands, it will smell you, it will figure out where you are, what's going on, how things interact and you can see right away that it's very calmer now, don't lose your temper at this point, so you can easily get excited and say look, the snake doesn't hiss anymore, it doesn't bite, but it's still very nervous, just feel the smell around you and find out what's going on. heck is happening, now it is above the ground, you are holding it with your hands, that is very important to give the snake a lot of support, the best advice I heard was to just pretend that you are like a branch, so if you and Yes you have this snake that comes out like this, I would move this hand like this and then I would put the other hand under it like that, it's already moving and it doesn't catch it off guard, like you just do it. of grabbing it, you never want to go over the animal and grab it or squeeze it because that will just make them very nervous, so you can see that this snake's whole demeanor is really calm and it's just a beautiful snake.

So without hissing at this snake, I could probably stay away for another five or ten minutes if I wanted to just wave my hand around letting the snake move wherever it wants. I'm not restricting her. I'm putting a little pressure between my fingers. Just to slow it down, the snake actually has a male as well, so you can see there's kind of a bulge here, so that's the male and the snake. I don't want to stress him out too much, but if you did this. consistently a couple of times a week maybe every other day when they are babies uh for about 15 minutes 10-15 minutes you can even do that a couple of times a day this snake will turn into an amazing animal probably within a couple weeks it will You'll notice that the hissing will stop, you can go in and pick it up and now you have a really cool snake, so that was a bow constrictor.

Next I'm going to go to a Burmese python just because these guys tend to be pretty hysterical so let me get this guy out of the way so Burmese pythons tend to be more loud than defensive so let's open this cover again . The behavior of the snake here is very curious, it is not coiled, it moves its tongue. It's just a very calm snake, but if I go in and touch it, I'll do this on purpose and you'll see that it's going to hiss, okay, I lied, it didn't hiss, but this snake is pretty calm. it's just because I took him out of his cage container and put him here he's still a little nervous, you know, you touch his face, he's kind of backing away, but overall he's very calm, so again this snake 15 20 minutes or so every day, every other day, and it will be just a super cool snake, very calm, uh, put it back, nice and gentle, put it back in its zipper, uh, you know, if you handle it, pick it up and is in the enclosure.

You can let it come back in on its own and this snake, I mean, that snake is pretty calm right there, since they're Burmese pythons when they're babies, they tend to be a little bit agile, but that's, you know, when you see that It's pretty good. So just by me cleaning the cages because I don't really have time to put up with 500 animals, so just by me cleaning the cages you realize that okay, I'm getting out, my cage is getting cleaned, that's not so bad, uh , another thing you will do. they want to do once they calm down a bit, so the first snake was a good example of how to hold it gently.

This snake might be in the next phase where it now knows you're coming out and has a little more confidence that you're coming out. want to just gently rub the corner of their mouth only when they are curious so quick tongue movements move consistently just rub around their face to get them used to you holding it around their face you never want to grab the snake behind his neck, even when you saw, I did it, I didn't put pressure on it, the only time you should do it is if you're giving him medication or you need to hold him for a certain reason if you're giving it to him. you know, a pill in its mouth if you have to force feed it, which you should never really force feed a snake, if you are forced to be a snake, this thing should be ready to die before you get to that point, so there's a Burmese python again pretty quiet you just got a little hiss but that wasn't a defensive hiss uh let's see what we have here.

I have a couple other corn snakes, so the corn snake is a good example of a different type of snake. You may be able to interact with it in different ways, which is why corn snakes tend to be a little more flighty. This, you see, such quick movements, quick movement of the tongue, it's a curious snake, but it's looking for food and I can tell just by the way they interact corn snakes tend to be a little bit more flighty when they're babies, but they calm down and turn into incredible snakes. The good thing about corn snakes is that they are very hardy snakes, they are hard to ruin, they are very forgiving, same thing. with bowl constrictors, boa constrictors are very forgiving snakes, so this animal, because it's small, it's difficult because you want to go in and just grab it, there's no easy way to get under it, so you might you have to use both hands and just kindly. of picking it up as soon as you get a couple of coils, that's perfect, you can pick it up and let the snake do its job so this snake, as you can see, I don't know well, I don't know if you can see it. but if you can get it, take a look at his eyes.

This snake is in full shed. But he can still smell me. It is very curious. It's still in this feeding mode. Although right now he's looking for food. I have rats defrosting. So that's probably the reason, he's sniffing around for food and wondering where the hell my food is because mainly when I open his tub he feeds so you can see how he reacts compared to the first arch constrictor and then the Burmese. Python on the second one, this one is very active looking for things, it's trying to figure out what's going on. It's a really cool snake.

I like corn snakes. I think they make great pets. And this is just my pet. His name is Chester. He will become a future breeder and then the last thing you know, another baby bow constrictor. I won't show the adults today because that's a completely different topic. You should address very similar ones, but you may want to do so only for your own confidence and for the snake's sake. For safety, you may want to put on some gloves or a sweatshirt like this one. A baby snake like this won't be able to bite a sweatshirt. His teeth are too small.

Even a thin glove. A thin gardening glove is perfect. I would suggest If you are afraid of being bitten, your nerves are going to make the snake nervous. It's really interesting that when I invite my friends over and they hold the snake, I can take it out and then they can hold it and all of a sudden. the snake starts to go crazy, it's all about the little movement you're making, the energy you're emitting in your hands, not so much in tai chi energy, but in the sense of how hard you're holding how

quickly

you're moving uh if you're shaking if you're shaking at all the snake can feel that so again we're going to come in from the back and you just pick up the snake, hold the body and the snake just be really calm and calm so I just touched its head and put it a little nervous, but I was there, so now it's okay, what's going on?

Let us do it, this thing finds its own way down and, uh, this snake is probably, uh, you. I know you're actually picking pretty good

examples

. I'm proud of myself, so you can see this snake is moving a little bit, the snakes in the middle, where the first boa constrictor was and then the Burmese python, where I don't thinkIt's going to bite me, but this. One may try to move very fast and get away from me, so that's also something to consider, once they start moving you won't want to grab them, but you'll want to go hand to hand very

quickly

so they don't.

No, uh, they don't get scared, so you know, here's this girl. Really calm beautiful snake, this will make an amazing pet and even just hold it, take it out to clean the cage, change some water, that will calm the snake, as you see, is not very comfortable, it is not going to bite me, but it does. I don't like it when I touch any part of the front of his head, so it's just about reading the snake and understanding the body language, so I try to show a lot of examples in my videos, specifically feeding body tone, these things like that in this one. case.

I am trying to show you many examples of the snake's reaction so that maybe you can understand. They know that the first snake is very scared, nervous, it has no idea what is happening. This one is a little older. It has moved more. he knows what's going to happen to him but he doesn't really have a reason to want it to happen the corn snake was just looking for food uh even this guy here so he's just curious this is a curious snake looking around wondering what the hell What's going on has no benefit in coming to me, but it's not scary to me either because I've never heard it, so that's something to consider over time, you know no, these snakes will calm down naturally just like you. interact with them, so I'll end the video here, it's getting a little long, I hope you enjoyed it, I hope it helps some of you, please share, comment, subscribe, all the subscriptions are amazing, I can't believe, uh, the kind of overwhelming.

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