WARNING; HANDLING VENOMOUS SNAKE'S IS DANGEROUS!!
The next step I take with my rattler's is to put them in the portable 12x12 pen that I have in my backyard. When moving them from the cage to the pen I use two snake hook's for picking them up and setting them down. Once their in the pen I stay in their with them, I'll walk around in the pen (wearing snakebite boots) for alittle just outside of their strike range and then I'll sit down on a plastic lawn chair I keep in there. After 10 to 15 min's pass and their moving around I'll get up and walk slowly around them again. This is done at the same distance until their not getting in a strike pose any longer, then I move in closer until they resume a strike pose and start the process all over again. There is nothing "fast" about this process, it take's time and patience and a lot of KINDNESS. Once I can stand by them without them rattling or raising up in a strike pose we move on to the next step.
