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I miss watching these videos with the background tune ☺️ My wife got a bit impatient that it kept cutting out 😂 She doesn’t watch snake videos but she tolerates my passion and she knows your end of video mantra from all the videos she’s overheard 😆

I thought we arent supposed to use anything adhesive inside an enclosure because it could get stuck to the reptile?

Thanks for documenting and sharing this for reference.

Same w/horses, cats, and dogs?

Great video!

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I also only handle mine went they approach me. There's always one or two that will come up to me when I enter their room and put their head on my shoulder for their "hug and kiss". Something that they copied from their mother. They have their own bedroom with a queen size heated waterbed(spoiled rotten. lol). There's nice enclosures in their room but the doors are left open so they come and go as they please. No I don't recommend anyone copying me. Oh yeah did I mention they are five 20 foot Pythons? The best home security system. They don't bark.

IT DIDDNT TAKE IT LONG TO OVER COME THE CLEAR CUP

I've started trying to get my snake to come to me and I think it freaks him out. He normally just starts slithering out if I open something, even onto me but if l rest my hand under the opening, he stops and stares. Like its weird of me or something.

Do you have a video of how to snake proof your house?

Great chat.

Do you watch them like a hawk while they're out? Have you ever had a snake escape/get lost?

TC knows he's your favorite and he'll make sure you don't ever, EVER forget! LOL

this is similar to what i do with my two cornsnakes :) target training, spot cleaning, water dish cleaning, etc. but rare handling. i very rarely handle because they are both small still and are a bit flighty, but they also don’t ask to come out much, so i leave them be. they seem content and comfortable exploring their enclosures without me interrupting their time and space. once they are older and more relaxed, i plan on giving them more opportunities to explore outside their enclosure, but for now, i love just watching them do their thing :)

Good to hear! Maybe you can contact Kevin McCurley of NERD, he knows al lot about behaviour. I learned a lot of his videos and everything I tested on my own animals is working.

Poor lottle blighter... Its a shame hes so afraid, but hes in the right place with the right people to have the best life possible! Fantastic work as always!

I’ve found my soft leather gloves have been really helpful handling my younger retic when I had to take her to the vet last month.

Stunning Lori ,,,,,

What wonderful progress. I'm so glad for him - it's got to be hard to live with being so fearful. I'm happy he is able to relax more and start to understand that he's safe with you.

Oh hooray! Huge progress for you with him! I know how big this step is and love to hear this!

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YAY Mesmer!

Yay Mesmer!!! Great to hear he's starting to relax! Poor scaredy cat! He's just a big baby. ♥

he's making wonderful progress, way to go!

Good job Mesmer! Crazy how far he's come along and well done Lori for helping him. I can't wait to see what other progress he continues to do.

Great Job Lori ,,,,,, keep rolling '

I’m astounded how so many people’s first instinct is to put the snake down when they get a Nido or Crypto positive. As far as I know, even previously symptomatic animals can graduate to asymptomatic and lead a relatively healthy life.

Such a useful talk! I learned things about enrichment from many of your videos, but it's very nice to review it in one systematic, centralized talk.

Thanks for this, Lori! CSU is close to me and I was going to have them test one of mine for crypto. Is a PCR test done through fecal samples or a different sample type?

I have an African house snake, gonna target train him. Pretty sure he can recognise me

Do you always give food as reward when they do what you want them to do? I'm asking because what if you want to get the snake out of the enclosure to handle it? Then giving food would not be a good idea. Thanks!

Wow such a natural with snakes great stuff

I love Luma. She was meant to be with you.

Thank you for this great video! My kids LOVE snakes so much and got their first snake pet, a corn snake, one week ago today. In two days, after he digests the meal we fed him yesterday, they will be holding him for the first time. My husband and I are animal people but have never owned a reptile so we have been educating the kids and ourselves so that we can be good snake owners. I will be showing the kids this video tomorrow so that they can initiate a trusting relationship with their new snake friend right from the start! ❤ Thank you so much again for this!

So pretty just cruising along 😊

Amazing snakes 👍👍 I'm also the hundredth like on the video yay🎉🎉🎉 Marcel and Stübben look super cool😎

That's amazing! Can't wait for mine to come in ❤

I have my copy! 😁

Thank you Lori! I really appreciate the endorsement and all of your help, mentorship, friendship and support. Your work has had a major impact on shaping my understanding of keeping snakes, has made my experience with my animals immeasurably better, and has left an indelible mark on all of the advice and guidance that we give to new keepers every day. Not a day goes by that I don’t mention something to a new keeper about target training, gradual desensitization, choice-based interaction, building trust, providing enrichment, and much more. What I love is seeing other new keepers not only learn and experience success with their animals, but then sering THEM recommend your concepts and educational materials to others in the group. ❤️ I love being a part of Behavior Education’s Patreon community!

I'm planning on getting some copies and keeping them on my table at expos.

This is very cool! I never thought about training snakes but I am absolutely going to work on it with my next snake, which will probably be a ball python (my first!). I wish I'd known about this when I had my boas. Our relationships were always a little tense because I never knew how they would react to anything. I think that training would've helped all of us.

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I like your videos, but I am confused on what to do about not force handling a snake in a situation where you have already feed the snake and you won't be feeding them again for 5-7 or more days, do you just not engage with your snake at all? I mean if you have to clean an enclosure, remove stuck shed, clean and disinfect the enclosure if you really cannot offer any food reinforcement because you shouldn't over feed or feed to frequently the snake. For instance, let's say you've fed the snake 4 days ago, he's not supposed to eat for another 3-4 days, and you've opened the enclosure and say he wants to engage with you and you handle him a little and take him to an exercise area, but then 30-60 min later, you need to do something else and it's not really safe to just leave the snake in the play pen and he's not in a hide with a bottom and he's just out exploring, but you need to leave, but you can't target him back into his enclosure or hide because he shouldn't eat again because it's only been 4 days. Why wouldn't you just pick the snake up and move him to his enclosure where you know he'll be safe, especially if you have to leave the area or cannot devote more time to just monitoring his actions/behavior. I'm confused by that scenario. I don't have a house where my snake can free roam. It seems for the snake safety more than anything else, after handling him to a play area, it would be safer to just pick him up and move him back to his enclosure.

Hi, Lori! I would love some advice if you don't mind giving it. I just adopted a 2-4 year old rainbow boa and I've had him for almost a month and he's refused to eat. He roams his enclosire regularly, his husbandry is good, he watches me from his hide sometimes, and he still refuses to eat. I did handle him a bit prematurely, but ive left him alone with no contact for two weeks and he is still not eating. Id appreciate your input before I take him to a vet

Lori, I really like your videos. Do you have any videos on how you actually construct your rolling activity centers. I just got a year old corn snake and while I won't need a rolling activity center or pet play pen just yet, I'd like to start constructing one for when I do end up needing it, and I'm not very DIY handy or very intuitive of stuff like that so a step-by-step example guide would be beneficial. Just thought I'd ask in case you have something like that.

love this

Hi! Thank you for the great videos. They have taught me a lot. Do you always reward the snake with food? For instance, you’re at the vet and the snake is following the target onto the scale, would you feed it in the vets office?

This is very informative, and I am learning a lot. I am researching whether a corn snake is right for me, so I am watching all your videos, Lori. I hope you answer my question. I see that you spot clean a cage when the snake is in its hide if it does not want to leave its enclosure, but what do you do when you have to absolutely remove all the substrate and deep clean the cage, as I understand that should be done at least every 30 to 45 days. Are you just hoping to catch them when they are in a hide with a bottom so you can just remove the entire hide? Not all hides have bottoms. In preparation for a possible shy snake, do you recommend just getting a bunch of hides that have bottoms so that if they end up being shy, they can just be removed? I'm unsure what to do to deep clean the cage (ie the entire substrate) if the snake is hiding in a hide in a corner.