Blood Python Safety Tips

Video Transcript

"Okay, so now you have your blood python. You've got your enclosure; it's all set up and ready to go, but here's the real question that you're wondering is, how do I not get bit? Well, well my rule personally is that if you get bit by a snake, it is your fault. They don't want to bite you. They've got no reason to bite you. Biting is their last resort as a defense; they'd much rather run. So generally, if a snake has bitten you, you've done something wrong. You've cornered it, you've done something to make it feel uncomfortable or you look like prey. So let's tackle that first and foremost problem that leads to most biting, which you look like prey, or they think that you're prey. So first and foremost, whenever you're feeding your snake, you don't ever want to feed him inside the enclosure that you're keeping him in. Always take him out of that enclosure and put him in a separate feeding enclosure. Now, obviously this won't do when he's full grown. You'll have to look at something like using like a bathtub maybe at home, or one of those very large Rubbermaid containers, those work as well but somewhere separate and safe, away from his regular enclosure. What that's doing is that's teaching him that when he's in here, it's dinner time, not when he's in his home. And that's going to stop any kind of biting behavior from the cage just opening and something entering it. Now when he's in here, he knows he can get fed. Secondly, when you're feeding, you always want to use tongs. Always, always, always want to use tongs. Don?t ever hands feed a snake. You're going to end up bit, one day or another. You may get away for it for awhile, but sooner or later, they don't have great vision, he's going to nail you. So always use feeding tongs when feeding your snake. Secondly, once you're done feeding your snake, take him out as carefully as you can and put him back into his enclosure. Don't mess with him for the rest of the day. What we're trying to do here is disassociate you from the food as much as possible."