Is your burm a hisser?

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Originally Posted by Purrrfect9

We have a 10' albino burm at our work, and he's very cage aggressive, but he never hisses. We just have him put his head in a vacuum tube, pull him out, and he's as sweet as a teddy bear. He's real good with the kiddo's too.

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Interesting...! :)

my albino granite and regular hiss when i first touch them, but my big granite hisses all the time, however ive only had him for a week and hes getting over a respiratory infection too so he wheezes and its hard to tell the difference

I've gotta say...I'm a little shocked to read about hissers and cage-aggressive burms. I have an 11-foot albino female that was neglected by her previous owner for the first 4 years of her life, and when I use her for school programs, etc. I always relate her personality to that of a giant yellow cow. I don't think I've ever heard her hiss, and she's never been the least bit aggressive that I can remember. That's not to say that she couldn't be, but I've just not seen it yet and I've had her for a couple of years.

Most baby burms hiss some of them grow out of it some of them dont. I have about 3 that dont hiss maybe 4. BUt the other 7-8 do. Usually only when I get them out or im messing in there cage but some of them hiss the entire time I handle them and everything. Its just like humans we have different personalitys some of us are nice as can be and some of us can be a bit snotty.

Undecided between "rarely" and "often" really... But, it's usually only when I place my hands within his enclosure, either to spot-clean, re-arrange something, change his water, or take him out. Once he's being handled though, he's lovely :) It's all bluff thus far, it appears. He's also a little'un though, so perhaps this may change with age... Also planning to begin hook training him soon (get him acquainted with it from as young an age as possible), so we'll see if that makes any difference too.

Yep our girk is a talker!
Sounds like a truck tire going off when i pull her out...
But never aggresive in the least.
Just likes to talk.
:)

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Originally Posted by letstalksnakes

Yep our girk is a talker!
Sounds like a truck tire going off when i pull her out...
But never aggresive in the least.
Just likes to talk.
:)

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Some would say that that is rather typical of a female ;)

Ya my albino green hiss' everytime i get hime out never strikes but gets pissed when i try and get him out. My yearling albino on the other hand never hiss' shes a sweety.

My Shiroko(6ft albino Granite) likes to put his head right by your ear and hiss, its completely random and non-aggressive, I think he just likes to mess with our heads.

In my experience male Burms are far more vocal, 99% are hissy from birth to being around 1-2 then around 50% will 'grow out of it' and that tends to have nothing to do with 'tameness' ie even very tame snakes will hiss a lot.