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| A snake owner told me you needed to wash your hands before handling snakes, particularly when they are babies. is this necessary?
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You should always wash your hands before handiling a herp to risk disease.
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Humans are incredibly dirty animals. I wash my hands a lot during the day, and even use antibacterial lotion from time to time. Thing to watch though, if you are washing before handling, is to throughly wash the soap off your hands.
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Yep.
Anoles are like icecream.They can be sweet but,will give you brain freeze with all their strange behaviors.  All is fair in love and war.-anonymous Click on the eggs to help them hatch! 
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Yes you need to wash your hands.I wash them before and after I handle them.I don't want to risk anything.I also use bacterial stuff sometimes..
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| like everyone else said you should always wash your hands before & after handling i use hand sanitizer before & after feeding & handling too make sure my herps aren't exposed to alot germs
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| yes. you should always do this before handling ur pets. also this helps prevent confussion on your snakes perhalf. they might smell their dinner on your hands and strike your hand thinking it was a rat or something else
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tyler (9/11/2008)
yes. you should always do this before handling ur pets. also this helps prevent confussion on your snakes perhalf. they might smell their dinner on your hands and strike your hand thinking it was a rat or something else That's a good point. But like everyone else said you should wash you hands after touching any animal weather it is a reptile, small animal or a dog. You can pick up salmonella from a human as well as from an animal.
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