are you ready to hold a big one today i'm going to show you how to hold a big one
even though i don't have that many big ones i just have one big one
and she's not even that big compared to a lot of other people big ones but this is big for me
okay we're gonna grab queen she doesn't live inside this drawer i promise i just was
cleaning her home and so we got queen and uh i just put her here while i'm cleaning her home so
we're gonna take out queen and we're gonna show you okay so first of all anytime you're working
with any bigger snake you're better off using a little thing you know just let her know i'm
i'm touching you i'm picking you up you're not getting fed something interesting that i never
really thought about was i never touched my snakes i never hook tap them before feeding
them so the only time that i tap them is before feeding them so they know they're not being fed
very good so i have her now on my body very nice and securely i didn't grab her like by the tip
of her head but by the tip of her tail got the mid body frontal body and i'm gonna hold her
and make sure that she's held nice and securely as i mentioned in the last video with uh holding one
that's a little bit more scared queen isn't scared the queen is very active so she likes to take off
on you but let's let's go outside where it's nicer now that we have nice weather we don't have to be
in the snake room as much okay come on let's go let's do this
quick quick
say hi to ariel make sure you catch this ariel loves queen matthew get her away
say hi to the wife don't film me film her i'm trying to get out of here
a smell coming from the hallway
she's so good she's such a good calm snake but uh lots of the time if uh people tried
to hold her like the cameraman earlier was trying to hold her and uh she kept
kind of like she'll kind of creep and get away or go somewhere else and this can happen they get a
little bit excited they want to like get away from you i'm trying to see if i can get her to do it
now that i want to show you she's just going to stay on me and be good but like if you get them to
kind of anchor onto you grab onto you like she's grabbed onto my leg she's balancing on my shoulder
kind of and she's like the biggest thing is first big snake small snake you make them feel secure
and if you make them feel secure then they won't feel like they have to get away from you or run
away from you or anything so you don't want to wrapped around your neck where she can
hurt you because you know even though i don't think she could kill me i'd be able to fight
her off or something even though she wouldn't try to kill me i don't even know what i'm saying
but um you're just better safe than sorry you know there has been cases of
people you know hanging out with their animal and bad things happening so you know if you can avoid
a problem why not make sure you get these beautiful white spots on her that you can see
she's a uh she's a pure super dwarf calico retic let's focus over here
and uh yeah this is queen she's just lovely
she's just a sweetheart she has like such a pretty face she has a beautiful personality
you can see those tongue flicks like there's lots of tongue flicks she's smelling and
everything she's looking around and i'm trying to kind of make her feel secure at the same time
also you don't want these animals to be within striking distance of your face just in case you
don't want to get you don't want to get tagged in the face by one of these now she's a little hyper
so a little bit of turning a little bit of you know re-oriented or re-art or re-orientating
yourself and uh figuring out kind of what works now see as she starts going if she starts going
too far then it's like it's harder to get her but if i kind of don't let her go that far and kind of
keep her over here and keep her balanced and once again don't grab the snake like this don't do that
always from underneath always kind of scoop them up hold them from underneath make them feel secure
now see she's getting more hyper she's trying to get away so now we're dealing with this
right like so she's getting away what do i do oh no getting like so i gotta get back over here
get her back somewhere secure and then kind of calm her down and get her out of this i want
to go get away explore mode and it might take a while and it might use up a little bit of energy
but you can kind of get them to calm down you're calm they're calm and then
we can have a nice relaxing experience with super dwarf retakes they are super active
and it can be hard to calm them down and she might not stop but the biggest thing is to not
let her get too far away because if she gets too far away then i have to put her down and pick her
up again or like i just i let her get too far away as long as she doesn't get too far away we're good
and never be afraid never be afraid never be scared if you're going to be afraid or scared
then you shouldn't hold the animal because if you are afraid or scared then you might you
know flip out drop her uh twitch or something act nervous and if you're nervous and you're scared
then she's gonna get scared hey like let's say you're walking through the woods with
your partner and your holding hands and you're having a nice time and then all
of a sudden they go and they squeeze your hand and you're like oh my goodness what's happening
like you don't even know what's happening but you get scared because they get scared
that happens with these animals a lot if you're calm controlled and you know show authority
not in like a nasty way just in a nice methodical controlled way like be a man show her who's boss
just grab her no no that's not what i'm saying don't be worried keep doing what you're doing
and uh if you start getting too tired just put them away but usually if you put in enough time
you can calm them down and you can have a nice experience and that's usually what i like to do
i like to hold my snakes until they calm down and then if they're calm maybe we'll watch a movie or
something and then put them away but i always like to kind of put them away when they're calm
i don't like to take them out freak them out and then put them back you take them out
you calm them down you have a nice little handle session and over time she'll relax
we'll have a nice time together and then we'll say
goodbye
like try and focus on her face yeah the weather is nice again
so starting to take my animals out a bit more and it's a nice excuse to kind of be able to show you
queen and how lovely she is it's a really special snake
if you want to see more videos about super dwarf articulated pythons click on the first video
otherwise check out the second one