Snake Routines

Yeah, that was quite the terrifying situation for everyone involved. There was about two days between her going missing and her being found that I was sure she was lost. Either eaten by a predator or killed by somebody. My friend lived in a pretty small town in Illinois, there's not what you would call a lot of snake friendly people there.

It was really unfortunate that is was Shy, she's been abused in the past (she was a rescue) and that little incident left her with both physical and mental scarring. I don't think she'll ever trust people again, sadly. Head shy to the extreme and a hissypants, she is. Luckily she no longer strikes at me as much as she did as a baby but if I move too quickly for her liking, she'll tell me so. I get one warning hiss when she's in a bad mood, then the defensive striking begins.

Once calm though, she is just a regular shy ball python, hence her name, lol. Curled up and cautious of everything around her.

I feed my snake good size prey,so he never wanders around hungry,he's barely out of his hide. He is a pig and would daily I'm sure if I fed him like that,but never would..sometimes if he sees me look in the tank into his hide,he comes out,expecting food I guess. What he seems to always do is,about a week after he sheds,he comes out every night for like 2-3 hours for about a week between the nours of 10pm and 11pm and swims through his water,lays on top his hide,hangs on the cool side,climbs the vines,then I wake up and he is back in his hide. After about a week of doing this he is back in his hide on the reg it's weird but he is doing it for some reason I guess. When I take him out of his enclosure,I'd say75% of the time,he don't wanna go back in,so I been taking him out a little more than usual lately. He slithers around and seems a lot more comfortable around my cats.