I bought another normal on craigslist about a month ago. beautiful snake its about 4.5 ft i got it from craigslist. want really in best condition, apeard to be a heat rock burn on its tummy polysporned the crap outta it... clearing up real nicly. but everytime i open the cage it makes really loud hisses, no gurgleing assosiated with it, no drooling either. im a smoker and most of the time it sounds lke me when i get up i the morning, like weezing i guess. feeding is interesting to, hisses really loud and tags it a few times and jumps back. im feeding ft small rats. it shed twice in like a 2 week periodi thougt that was strange too. all in all this one is way different from my other ball