Handling Confidence

[amattel]

My main issue with Thea, my Black neck girl, is she is prone to leap into mid air and I don't want to her to get lost or hurt.

When I handle her I usually have a slight pressure on her to slow her movements just enough so she doesn't launch herself.

I trust my boas to crawl all over me and keep their "footing" so to speak, but I know Thea thinks she is a flying snake and there are too many places in my room for her to disappear into

[ConcinusMan]

I have to really hold on to Amy too, (Iowa christmas albino radix) especially if I'm walking with him and the light levels fluctuate. He's blind and the sudden light changes startle him and he does that too. He'll leap right out of your hand.

[RedSidedSPR]

DANG I WAS GOING TO POST THAT!! (the dragon) sucks.

Amy is a male? Kinda like "little Dude"?

[ConcinusMan]

Yup. He is. Totally screwed that up. First off, he was sexed as a female when I bought him. Then, he gave an overall impression of being very yellow. Yellow = Amarillo or "Amy" for short. Then it turned out he's a male, then he went and turned all orange on me. Well, all of this happened way too late. I had already been calling him "Amy" for so long, I just said screw it and kept the name.

[RedSidedSPR]

Thought it was something like that.

[drache]

I've had a few snakes who launch themselves - exciting . . .
takes a lot of attention
many do calm down eventually, but a lot will revert when startled
didn't bring any of those

our little class went well, and given the theme, I stuck with scientific names - they're pretty exotic sounding to most kids
I'd borrowed two RTBs from the rescue and gave a little spiel on how the branch of the ministry of magic responsible for NYC has banned certain creatures because of the high density of muggle population, and that I had these on loan from a visiting wizard with a special permit
I also brought my tiliqua scincoides, uromastyx dispar, pogona vitticeps, and heterodon nasicus - all cool names for magical creatures, don't you think?
snakes are generally much easier on kids than lizards - no scratchy claws - but everyone pretty much got to hold at least one of each
the parents tipped me really well

[Didymus20X6]

Amy is a male? Kinda like "little Dude"?

Are you making fun of my Little Dude?

==(>8>-<

[RedSidedSPR]

No... but when i first heard her name I thought for sure it was a male, when I found out it wasn't I was wondering why she was named that. Ya know "dude" is for guys... no offense (in case you weren't kidding)

==(>8>-< What's all that???

[Didymus20X6]

Look at it again, but think of the 8 as a pair of eyes.

[RedSidedSPR]

Look at it again, but think of the 8 as a pair of eyes.

I knew what it was I was kidding. At first it just looks like a bunch of random symbols