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[nagayna-snake]

So a quick question: Do you only wear gloves when handling Naganya while cleaning her enclosure? Or Is there more reason for wearing gloves while handling?

I use gloves when cleaning the terrarium, as it is convenient and, for example, when washing the glass does not leave prints. But I also use gloves when handling snakes that feel anxious or aggressive on my hands. None of my snakes are actually tamed because I don't see anything good in forcing someone to communicate if they don't want to and prefer private space. There are snakes who do not care and feel very comfortable, not being in their terrariums or containers, they just crawl or rest in their arms. But it very much depends on the personality of the snake, because, of course, each has individual character traits and preferences. Nagayna is not at all evil, curious and cute, but she is very shy and she can have panic attacks, in which she can even bite herself, because fear at this moment overpowers common sense and touching her own part of the body is perceived as "something are threatening". I use gloves to minimize the source of stress as much as possible, as gloves are familiar to Nagayna and she knows they won't harm her in any way. It is also safe, since in a state of panic, Nagayna begins to bite intensively, the teeth, of course, pass through a thin glove and I feel a bite, but this does not happen unexpectedly and I do not instinctively pull my hand away, risking breaking her teeth. I also use gloves with Mirana, but the reason is more obvious there - she will try to bite you in any case, while not missing the opportunity to squeeze hand. Do not forget that their body is a huge and powerful muscle, the feeling when squeezed is not very nice, but you can understand what it's like to be a mouse in this deadly capture huh Osiris is the only one with whom I do not use any gloves at all, not because he is small, but because he is just the one who does not care and does not experience stress being in hand. During cleaning, Osiris just hangs on my hand and watches, I think he is interested in everything and he does not worry at all, as I feel his body relaxing <3

Thanks for the question and I hope it was interesting for you! ^^

[nagayna-snake]

Why is feeding snakes frozen mice better for them opposed to live ones (aside from ethics)? Wouldn't the act of catching their prey be better for their bodies? I'm not trying to debate, I'm just curious why frozen would be better over not

This is a really great question and thank you for asking it!There are many reasons to choose frozen/thaw mice over live besides the ethics involved with watching an animal kill another animal and eat it when it’s really not necessary for the health or happiness of your predatory pet.1. It’s more convenient to buy 500 frozen mice in bulk than it is to buy 500 live mice and keep them alive for the span of 500 reptile meals. 

2. It is cheaper to buy 500 mice all at once for bulk pricing than it is to buy a single mouse 500 times and pay full price each time.

3. Live mice grow bigger, get older, change nutritionally over time as they age. Frozen mice stay the same size for as long as they are frozen and will, if properly stored, retain the same nutritional content as the day they were frozen.

4. Live mice may carry live internal parasites. Frozen mice only carry frozen and dead internal parasites, if any at all.

5. Live mice generally want to stay alive and will do anything within their small mousey power to not become dead. This can include attacking and injuring or even killing their predator. While in the wild we might consider a mouse who severely injured or killed a snake a bit of a badass, in the reptile keeping hobby a $3 mouse who kills a treasured and potentially very expensive pet snake is a nightmare.

6. Being grabbed by a mouth full of sharp teeth and then squeezed to death hurts a very lot. Proper CO2 euthanasia, while not without its own set of complicated ethics questions, is relatively less painful and considered generally quite humane. Cervical dislocation, when done properly, is almost completely painless and very humane (though less convenient and requiring more effort and skill than CO2). Everything deserves a humane death, regardless of why they’re dying.

7. Some people believe that feeding live prey promotes aggression in reptiles. I personally have not seen any evidence to support this but I think if I were given the conscious choice of teaching my snake that “wiggling and moving” = FOOD versus “lying relatively still” = FOOD and “wiggling/moving” = PROBABLY MAYBE NOT FOOD I’d prefer the latter for the sake of my wiggly hands.

8. Reptiles sometimes don’t eat their food right away. It’s not unusual for even very well cared for animals to refuse a food item for various reasons, especially if they’re conditioned to expect that food will appear again at the next regular interval. If you were to, say, drop a live mouse into your pet snake’s tank and the snake wasn’t hungry and decided not to eat, how long would you wait to take the mouse out? Like, a few hours? A day? What would you do with this live and now unwanted mouse? I may occasionally be in a rush and put a thawed mouse in my snake’s enclosure overnight and if it doesn’t get eaten by morning it’s no huge hassle to take a slightly smelly thawed mouse out of the enclosure and toss it to my carnivorous roach colony. I can’t say that I would feel as comfortable leaving a live animal with gnawing teeths and claws and will to survive in an enclosed space with my rather derpy reptile pet who lets me touch their eyeballs without seeming to notice, let alone care.9. Body condition-wise, having constant access to various forms of enrichment is going to be better for your snake’s health and well-being than maybe two minutes of “exercise” once every week or so before they eat. If they do already have constant enrichment opportunities, then that two minutes of “hunting” is really not necessary.10. I can’t actually think of any situation in which live feeding is easier, safer, cleaner, cheaper, or more convenient than frozen/thaw feeding. Sometimes a reptile will only eat live and refuse frozen/thaw, which I do understand, but that’s the animal’s preference and not the preference of the keeper. The only reason I’ve ever seen people genuinely prefer it as a means of feeding their reptile pets is for the gross spectacle of watching a living thing kill another living thing, which is honestly bad for all parties involved and bad for the image of the hobby in general. We need to be portraying reptile keepers as ethical, humane, caring and nurturing people who happen to care a lot about animals that don’t necessarily have fur or feathers.…And who also care about animals who do have fur and feathers, which is one of many very valid and carefully considered reasons why we feed frozen/thaw.

[nagayna-snake]

06.12.2015 года.  

1 год 6 месяцев.

Спящая упоротость.

[nagayna-snake]

01.12.2015 года.  

1 год 6 месяцев.

Браслетик.

[nagayna-snake]

11.10.2015 год.

1 год 4 месяца.

Подгляделки. 

[nagayna-snake]

29.09.2015 год.

1 год 3 месяца.

[nagayna-snake]

22.05.2015 год.- 24.09.2015год.

11 месяцев - 1 год 3 месяца.

Метаморфозы...

[nagayna-snake]

08.05.2015 год.

11 месяцев.

Нагайна на прогулке, исследуя мои руки и комнату.

[nagayna-snake]

14.03.2015 год.

9 месяцев.

Нагайна трапезничает маленькой голой мышкой.

[nagayna-snake]

13.03.2015 год.

9 месяцев.

В отражении Тигрик/Тигр... мой дорогой ныне покойный друг... он был очень любопытным и с удовольствием наблюдал за Нагайной. 

[nagayna-snake]

Мирана в сравнении с Нагайной в одинаковых ёмкостях. Они фактически одинакового размера и разница в возрасте всего лишь в 1 год: Нагайне 6 лет, а Миране 5 лет. Но без сомнения обе очень красивые дамы <3 

[nagayna-snake]

17.07.2020г. 

5 лет 4 месяца - 5 лет 5 месяцев. 

Вне очереди, потому что просто посмотрите какая она красивая леди. Она заслуживает внимания. Я редко фотографирую Мирану, потому что у неё довольно злой характер и она определённо слишком самодостаточная личность, чтобы не тратить время для бесплатного позирования xD 

[nagayna-snake]

12.03.2015 год.

9 месяцев.

Фотографии брата.

[nagayna-snake]

09.03.2015 год.

9 месяцев.

Упоротый взгляд ыть.

[nagayna-snake]

06.03.2015 год.

9 месяцев.

Нагайна любопытствует. Привычка приползать к дверце террариума и наблюдать за происходящим осталась до сих пор.

[nagayna-snake]

05.03.2015 год.

9 месяцев.

Нагайна спит. Когда змеи спят, то их зрачки сужаются, а иногда они могут косить вниз. Очень забавное зрелище.

[nagayna-snake]

02.03.2015 год.

9 месяцев.

Маленькое сокровище на прогулке. Фотографии моего брата.