Quote Originally Posted by Garter_Gertie View Post
But be careful to let the snake pull away from the gloves and not yank back. Don't want to hurt snake/teeth and possibly have to deal with mouth rot.

It's been suggested to me by my Hoggy breeder to never use gloves due to the very great possibility of tooth loss. (shrugs shoulders)

I don't know. I can see both sides. I'll go w/o gloves until I think the danger to me is greater than the possible injury to my snakelettes. As I have the ability to sit for a long time waitng for snigglettes to withdraw from either me or gloves if I should use them.

So, it's not something I do - use gloves... yet, but wanted to toss out.
I have had more snake teeth embedded in flesh than in gloves to be honest. For some reason, most of the don't seem to even bite the gloves. I've had them strike a couple times while wearing gloves, but rarely do they latch on. Without the gloves...they latch on and twist their heads about. That's when they lose teeth.

I try not to use gloves unless I am dealing with a big, bitey snake. For the most part babies, and small ones don't bother. It's only when one of the bigger kings starts eyeballing me and giving me a little lip. Than I use the gloves to force them out and into interacting...