Other pets (pics and discussions)

[guidofatherof5]

Take your time. Start be just placing your hand inside. Usually the snake will slowly make its way out to investigate. It will progress to the snake crawling across your hand. Then you can do short pickups. This whole process of trust can be expedited by offer food from your hand or hemostats. Once they see you as a food giver its all over. Trust through the stomach I call it.

[snipstedy]

oh, I have been grabbing it about once a week and can tell nothing was going to progress from that...thanks. Being that its spoiled from the hemostats should be easy to feed directly from my hand.

[guidofatherof5]

The trust has to be built using the snake's time. You can't force anything. Tiny steps most of the time.
Then there are those occasions where a wild snake immediately calms down when handles. I've picked up with radixes out of my yard that were so relaxed I could hand feed them.

[RedSidedSPR]

unlike emerald tree boas, amazon tree boas are said to prefer and require crossing branches that form "T's" or "X's". They don't perch on a single branch in the manner of the emerald.

Mine didn't get the memo. I have lots of crossing branches. She's never used any of them. She's convinced she's an ETB

[Charis]

She is so cute! Mine do use their cross perches but will also use the straight ones sometimes.

[RedSidedSPR]

She is so cute! Mine do use their cross perches but will also use the straight ones sometimes.

It's the perfect ETB-mimicking formation that's interesting. Didn't know they did or could do that.

[snipstedy]

I recently caught one that was very calm , the next day I saw its other siblings that were a little smaller. My snake will calm down after its freaked out for a little while. After it just sits in my hands looking around. Is it best not to keep trying to catch them while they race off and freak out altogether? I guess it probably ruins the trust but then again he calms and stays calm after being held for a minute.

[joeysgreen]

[kueluck]

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Vera & Vern American Green Tree Frog (Hyla cinerea)
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Tally, one of 4 Whites Tree Frog (Litoria caerulea)
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Morph, one of 3 Southern Toads (Bufo terrestris)

Breaks my heart when I see pics of people feeding these to their snakes or any amphibian.

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Oliver, my sweet little tuxedo.

[guidofatherof5]

The frogs and toads look great. Sorry, not a cat person.