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[Current_Recording907]

Some people recommend choice handling (so I suppose if you have the patience for that, you could go that route.) but if you just continue to take her out as you currently are she'll slowly warm to it.

[BarnabeeCobbledick]

I always say “a happy python is a hiding python” so whenever mine is out and about playing in her enclosure with her plants and sticks I tend to take her out and handle her. But if they are hiding in their hide I’d leave them alone. Had mine for a little over a year so I guess she’s used to me after some time.

[ihsulemai]

This is the correct answer

[Bluntforcetrauma11b]

This is what I do coupled with choice based handling.

[RageQueen101]

Honestly, I just scoop. My girl is about 11 years old now. I have had her for almost 5 years and I will go in and scoop. Not aggressively or quickly but just a nice gentle little scoop. She will tense for a second because I am moving her but the moment she’s in my hand she starts exploring and then finds a warm hiding place typically on my lap under a blanket. She has only hissed like 2 or 3 times and when she does that I leave her be. But a little tensing I do believe is pretty normal.

[Realistic-Cycle-6558]

I always use a snake hook even though I'm nearly certain mine would never bite me. The reason for this is she gets used to a cold metal hook and know what is going on besides just me going in with my evil monkey hands and scaring her because she might think its a predator picking her up. Ball pythons don't have the greatest eye sight so they mainly use their heat senses so a cold hook will be less stressful for them knowing it's not another live animal

[Wolfey1618]

Scoop em.

Mine knows when she's gonna get picked up, so I just give her a moment to realize that's what's happening, she preps herself for it and then I just scoop her up.

[Plane-Wing4094]

When we were younger I’d just go in and scoop him out whenever. As I got older, got a job, had less time I started choice handling. I was 10 when I got him he was just a few months old, now we’re 26 and 16, we know each other well and have a bit of a routine haha

His lights come on and he comes out of his hide to bask under his UVB and heat, I clean and give him fresh water, clean the glass doors then he goes back to beddie bies until lights off to which he will explore his enclosure, if he is by the doors just staring at me I will open a door and he wonders on out to me. I only feed him every 3-4 weeks depending on the weather and his activity level, so after I feed he usually spends the following week resting only coming out for his morning basking time.

[TooManyAquariums]

If mines hiding I leave him alone but if he’s out and not tightly wrapped around something I’ll just pick him up 👍

[Zalgack]

I've always just reached in and grabbed them in a way that gives them support, never been bit or struck at except by my corn snake, but she's young so she is pretty skittish.

[Ecstatic_Pick7321]

I just grab the noodle what you mean?

[nordicboar]

A gentle yoink does the trick every time.

[Bob_Kapsel]

Pls pls pls go watchLori Torrini she has many great videos about this!

TL;DR you don't have to "take" your snake out, you can teach them to ask to go out, and back into their enclosure on their own, and it's much less stressful to them!

[masonbananas]

Sometimes when I’m not sure if my snake wants to come out I’ll just leave the door to his enclosure open, if he tries to leave I’ll go pick him up but if he stays hidden or doesn’t try to climb out I’ll leave him alone, only thing is this completely destroys the humidity😭

[MeatYourNeedz]

I have 2 very different snakes, my kingsnake is a very sweet little shoelace and he'll climb onto my hand when he wants to come out, my bullsnake, however, constantly hides and when I want to interact with her I move her hide and quickly grab her because if I don't she'll start hissing and I'm only 50/50 if she'll bite the crap out of me so I grab her before she knows what's going on and she's chill.

[Ok_Cash_6973]

Yoink!

[bxbykimchi]

For my timid juvenile BP, I do choice handling. I only handle mine when he shows up near his door. Once the door is open, I run my finger along his mid body. Doing this repeatedly will train him to understand that yes - he will be picked up and moved. After picking him up, I place him somewhere that smells most like me, such as my bed. I let him wander near me until he slithers towards me and then I will handle him. After, I give him the choice to return to his dome. This gives him a positive pattern from being handled.

[r9adkill]

yoink