Female going wild!!!!

I have a female ball python that sometimes when I throw a male in her enclosure she starts going crazy and starts pushing against the top of her enclosure and she flips everything in the cage. Is that normal?

How sure are you that she's a female? Sounds like combat behavior that usually occurs between two males.

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Originally Posted by rabernet

How sure are you that she's a female? Sounds like combat behavior that usually occurs between two males.

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I was going to say the same thing.

Im 100% sure because my friend popped her for me. I tought it was combat behavior at first but first of shes a female, and at the same time she doesn't even touch the other snake when shes thrashing around the cage.

Yeah - even the girls do that some times.

So your saying its normal if they do that? Shes done it twice already.

Is she tail-wagging? One of my females does this, and it can be pretty noisy!

Nope, she just goes slithering around really fast bumping into everything, she pushes her waterbowl across the cage.

I have a girl that will routinely push males out of the tub if I don't close it fast enough - they thrash around for a bit like combating males and then settle in for a couple of days of mad love. I have seen others push the males around. It happens but I don't have the expereince to call it normal or tell you what it means or why they do it.

Maybe it's just rough foreplay?

I guess as long as their not hurting each other they'll be ok.