Striking Question...

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Originally Posted by brainman1000

It's a female. That explains why she is so pissy....

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I nearly fell off my chair when i read this lol.I suggest you handle her more often like the others stated.Sometimes if something moves to fast they will react in a defensive manor.

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Originally Posted by joepythons

I nearly fell off my chair when i read this lol.I suggest you handle her more often like the others stated.Sometimes if something moves to fast they will react in a defensive manor.

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Glad somebody got it!!

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil.../0/Medusa.jpeg

I hope that posted... ! That is the only picture I have of her right now because my camera is broken right now.. and that was also taken about a month ago, so she has grown a lot since. Sorry for the bad picture quality!

Here it is for ya. All you have to do is type this

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http://images.yelp.com/photo?id=NO4l...j-N8MCtZYQ&s=l

thanks bpkid!

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Originally Posted by brainman1000

Glad somebody got it!!

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I got it, but the wife was looking over thy shoulder.... I had to move on to the next topic! LOL


And nice looking BP too!

Karen, I think the best advice I can give you isn't cut and dried either to handle more or less. It's so unique to each snake, the situation at that moment, the age of the snake, where it is in a shed or eating cycle...there's so many variables. The best I can advise is observe the snake and go with your gut instinct. It's a very young BP, everything right now is instinctively a predator. You or your boyfriend hovering over it will trigger that and the baby is just trying in it's snakey mind to survive. As you gently handle it for short periods and it matures it may begin to recognize you somewhat but that just takes time, patience and establishing recognized routines with the snake.

Watch for what triggers defensive hisses and strikes and learn to avoid those things so the baby BP can relax more. Sometimes just sitting and letting them explore you is best. Even if all they do is sit in a ball on your lap I feel they are learning your scent and that you won't hurt them. Just gentle finger strokes and knowing when enough is enough is often a good handling session with such a little snake.

Try to make the removal and return to it's home very low stress, gentle and quiet so the snake learns that this is not a time to feel defensive. Also, remember this is a snake and it can and will hiss, ball up, act defensive or strike sometimes for no more reason than it feels it needs to. That's just part of the unique experience of sharing your life with snakes.

Put it this way, I have some mature BP's that are total sweeties to handle. Then one day I can reach into an enclosure to simply change water and have a very ticked off snake hiss at me or take a jab at my hand. It's not being "mean", it's just being a snake and that's just fine with me and Mike.