Your favourite moments with snakes.

[Bart]

Mine are when they open their mouths to eat their meal. ;) Sometimes you have to work hard on that part. ;) The opening of their mouth is like a reward of your efforts. ;) I like this in snakes. They tend to be so unpredictable and picky. ;)

[infernalis]

I have to say babies taking that first ever meal... something special about seeing tiny little newborns turn into savage feeders.

[guidofatherof5]

Mine would be babies first breath.

[Kantar]

a tug of war between 2 garters over a nightcrawler.. nightcralwer snaps in half, both garters are happy :)

[katach]

I'll have to agree with Wayne. Babies first meal, it's such an exciting moment! I love when they yawn too, that is the cutest!

[chris-uk]

With one of our vivs on a chest of drawers in the bedroom, my favourite moment it getting up each morning to find Esk peering out of the viv to say "good morning".

[PINJOHN]

for me it's a feeling i rediscovered this year after an absence of some time, it's spotting a strange small movement in the viv and discovering that you have babies and then to enhance the feeling its trying to count just how many of these little tykes have turned up in your viv,:eek: an unbelievable buzz

[dieselbaby]

mine is when i place something new in the enclosure, and they come out to investigate it, and hopefully play on it for awhile.

[chris-uk]

mine is when i place something new in the enclosure, and they come out to investigate it, and hopefully play on it for awhile.
... before loosing interest and going back to their old stuff. Wait. No. This is a snake we're talking about, not the cat.

[d_virginiana]

When Houdini (my blind snake) gets excited when he smells my hand in his cage after a long period of me being away and crawls up my arm to say hello :) And then when he smells other people's hands and refuses to go to them when I try to hand him off to someone else.

[infernalis]

Another fave moment, when an injured or sick animal shows full recovery.

That always makes me happy.

[Billy_80]

Chillin on the couch watchin' TV with them wrapped up on my hand.

[PINJOHN]

have just rediscovered another very special moment, when a baby that has been causing concern with his lack of appetite suddenly seems to have discovered the joy of eating, what makes it even stranger is the fact he is coming up for a shed and has opaque eyes but is tucking it away as if it's going out of fashion, i have had the odd adult over the years that would occasionally eat while in this state but have never seen it in a youngster.
Of course me being me, my joy is tinged with the worry that this is a one off and he will go back to his old anorexic habits

[chris-uk]

Of course me being me, my joy is tinged with the worry that this is a one off and he will go back to his old anorexic habits

I feel your pain on that one. I have the same worry each time Bethan eats. She seems to be eating every other feed, so I won't worry until she goes more than a week without eating. Anorexic snakes must be one of the least favourite aspects of keeping keeping them.

[RedSidedSPR]

Moments like these.

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[Stefan-A]

I prefer the quiet moments, when everything is working as it should and there is nothing to worry about.

[RedSidedSPR]

When there's nothing to worry about! Yes!

Dunno about the quite part.:D

[kimbosaur]

Might be just a really small thing, but I think it's adorable when I'm handling the babies and they wrap the tip of their tail around a finger so that they don't fall. It's always an "awww" moment for me.

[RedSidedSPR]

Might be just a really small thing, but I think it's adorable when I'm handling the babies and they wrap the tip of their tail around a finger so that they don't fall. It's always an "awww" moment for me.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b283/chucknkelly/babe020-1.jpg

[d_virginiana]

Or when a skittish baby first starts really being comfortable with being held.

[Spankenstyne]

The moms giving birth is always a favourite moment for me, as is group feeding time for the babies it always gets a laugh outta me.

[kibakiba]

When Hades met his new tank mates and snuggled up with them within 3 minutes of being in the tank.