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Basic Handling Question

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Charger9

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Hi everyone! Great board!!

I have recenlty become interested in getting a corn snake, I have a question concering interaction with the snake. Will there ever come a time when the snake will recognize me by sight or smell and know I mean it no harm or will I always appear as a monster or something to it? Will the snake always be concerned I am going to eat it when handling it? Will the snake ever truly like and look forward to handling? Thanks for any replies back.
 
Welcome to the forum, I hope you enjoy it! Not to be rude, but helpfull; using the search function from the menu, typing 'handling' will provide you with hours of reading material about it. Good luck! Of course any more specific quation will sure be replied to readily!
 
This is a hard thing to know really as they cant tell you but i think corns tolerate handling more than enjoy it.Once they get past "the big scary things isn't going to eat me" stage they settle down.

Allow him to settle in for about 4 days and then handle in short amounts getting longer as he becomes more calm.

This is my new Ana and as you can see he is settled in after only having him for 5 days

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Be patient with him and put in the time and you will have a friendly corn that will be happy for you to handle
 
Same here. Mine started out running and hiding at the sight of me. Now I can go tap on his cage to wake him up and he'll come to the front to see what's happening. Open the door and he crawls out onto me.

It depends on the individual snake a lot too.
 
When i got mine, at first, he would run away and hide or try and get out of my hands, but i carried on handling him in short periods and now he will happily slither up my arm and go to sleep.
 
Mine got used to handling very quickly, never struck, let alone bit me. No tail rattling. Only a little bit of a squirm when trying to pick him up. He's not at the open-door-slither-up-arm stage, Nor might he ever be.
But he's fine about me lifting the hide and slowly picking him up. :)
 
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