now captive bred milk snakes as i said beforemake an excellent pets. most of them are pretty docile they're used to people but if you'regoing to handle your snake, there's a couple things you want to keep in mind. never graba snake from the top because that's how predators attack, they attack from above. so when you'rehandling your milk snake of course i took the glass off this enclosure, it usually hasa sliding glass door. but you open up the
baby milk snakes for sale, sliding glass door, you gently stick yourhand in, make sure the snake is aware of your presence and gently, put your hand underneathit and pull the snake out of the cage. snakes have a very long spine, and it's very actuallysensitive spine if you're not supporting the entire snakes' body, the snake will feel uncomfortableand not safe and squirm around you want to
make sure you support its entire body. anotherthing to keep in mind is that snakes have a very excellent sense of smell. their tonguehelps gather little tiny scent molecules that are in the air, they bring their tongue insideof their mouth, and on the roof of their mouth there's a special organ called jacobson?sorgan which sends messages to the snakes brain of what they are smelling. now, humans, weneed to breathe in thousands and thousands and thousands of little scent molecules toget a good whiff of something. snakes only two or three little tiny scent molecules toget a good whiff of something so they have an excellent excellent sense of smell. somake sure you wash your hands very well before you go into the snakes enclosure because ifyou have any smell of a prey item such as
mouse of a rodent on your hand, the snakecan smell that and accidentally mistake you for a prey item and bite. now they all haveteeth, they're all more than capable of making you bleed and sometimes that just comes withthe territory of owning a snake. you will get bit.
