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I always use snake hooks to first handle my snakes.I find many advantages to using them.Even as hatchlings ill use a tiny hook to get them out of the enclosure.This allows them to get used to the hook and realise its handling time not feeding time as I feed them in there enclosures.(they usually settle once outside the enclosure anyhow) Also if your snake is not expecting to be touched and you startle them they may snap in defence so with a slight touch of the hook before attempting to remove them it lets them know that I am about to pull them out for handling.

They soon realise that the snake hook is a good thing meaning attention and an outside wander in the sunlight.