once in a while you'll have a snakes
having problems shedding I'm in Canada
so it can get pretty dry here in the
winter just so you can see this guy over
here had a perfect shed you see I'm
fresh skin everything's okay and that's
how it's supposed to be this one's got
just a touch a shed stuck on his tail so
then on the extreme side there this one
which looks all shriveled almost looks
like he's dehydrated but I'll show you
how you can get that shit off nicely so
you're gonna put in about all right even
an inch we don't want it to be hot you
just want to be a little bit warmer than
lukewarm and then we stick them in the
water and over and out so what kind of
deal yeah
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in
so we put him in the snake where were
there 20 minutes
this guy got most of his shed off on his
own the first guy got it all off and he
just has a little bit left on the tail
just gently gently work it off
also if you notice a snake is going into
shed you spray it and then it usually
sheds pretty well if you spray it a
couple times every day until it sheds
it'll usually have a perfect shed also
since I have a lot of babies sometimes I
don't catch it I usually catch it with
the adults as you can see it's coming
off and you just want to remember to be
very gentle and take your time here we
go look at that focus yep yay fresh
snake lover and overlooks as good either
it's when it has its fresh skin freshly
said shed you see how like here you
still looking crinkly and right after he
shed it's looking all nice you know
we're gonna work it off of his off his
head so usually you just go to the mouth
and gently see if you can get it going
yeah we got it and you never do this
without soaking the snake cuz you'd end
up hurting it but as you can see we've
soaked nicely now sheds coming off by
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it's also nice to see that he's not
really fighting it's not super he's not
aggressive or anything I know sometimes
I think and you spend more time with
snakes they realize that sometimes
you're trying to help them okay so see
how it's peeling off the of his neck and
now and I get it going off the top of
his off the top of his head - okay
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also it'll be funny that sometimes
you'll find certain specific snakes have
a harder time shedding than others and
there's this one ball python every
single time she said she just keeps the
skin on her face it's like she doesn't
want her face skin to shed right once
again nice and gentle you want to make
sure that you won't try and get it all
coming in one piece you don't want to
peel off little pieces interesting fact
now you can actually see I can show you
that snakes so snakes their eyeball is
actually covered by like a piece of skin
it comes off with the shed some like so
when you touch them in the eye or poke
them in the eye or whatever they don't
feel anything because you have these
icons that doesn't seem to want to come
off okay here we go
okay can you see you see that I cap
I kept cool now let's get the other eye
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there we go I kept number two let see
that this little guy's uh so you can see
the eye cap right there and on the other
side too so now what we want to try and
do is get both sides to meet each other
so we have the bottom part so that we
have the bottom part the upper part
peeling at the same time there we go
no it's coming off a lot easier and look
at that beautiful face sorry hi to
everyone now we're going to connect
these two pieces together
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and I have some other videos of some
other snakes that I've helped check I'm
just gonna throw those in so you can see
a few more but that's basically all you
have to do remember soak them soak them
as long as you want
the longer you soak them the easier
it'll probably be for the skin to come
off and sometimes you don't even have to
do this sometimes just by soaking them
long enough they'll do it themselves and
it's very important for them and
whenever they're shedding to get the
whole shit off otherwise you end up with
scale problems or issues that you really
don't need to have because even if they
are having problems getting their shed
off it's pretty easy to do this and they
almost almost kind of help you if you
you would watch okay there we go
so there he is he's totally content he's
not angry and he's got his fresh skin
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