do BP's hiss?

swear to god i heard my pastel hiss at me when i was picking him up...

and if so they ever hiss at u?

yes they can hiss.. :)

i think pythons all have different characteristics.. :)

i got one.. thats so gentle...
one that if you handle him for a less than a day... he hisses..
and one that just dont care... hehehehe...

my pastel hisses before striking at me hahaha

Some of ours hiss, and quite loudly too. I just chaulk it up to their "personality". :D

Yep, they sure do. :oops: Only a few of mine ever hiss, but I take it as a sign they're not in the mood to be held... and twice the hiss has been followed by a bite, so I've learned my lesson. LOL! Most of the time it's just a warning or startled reaction, though, so with the babies I'll hold them anyway - otherwise they could make it a habit, thinking it's a good way to scare away that "big predator" aka your hand. ;)

I have two that hiss each time I handle. One is all talk and the other i take serious lol:)

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Originally Posted by shaunwithbite

i think pythons all have different characteristics.. :)

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Ain't that the truth! I was just explaining this to a friend, how even snakes can have different personalities... each one of my 7 BPs has a unique personality, from Toby the sweetheart (can barely hurt a mouse, LOL) to my hets who have serious attitude. :oops: Just because their brains are small, that doesn't mean they can't think or react - right?

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Originally Posted by Kysenia

I have two that hiss each time I handle. One is all talk and the other i take serious lol:)

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LOL. I ignore the babies when they hiss, even though Pedro has tagged me once - but that was mostly my fault, and hasn't happened since. Delilah, on the other hand, means business when she hisses. Usually she's a pretty nice lap-snake, but does have her moments of crankiness... and the hiss means "BACK OFF" when it comes from her. That I know. :weirdface

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Originally Posted by Alice

Some of ours hiss, and quite loudly too. I just chaulk it up to their "personality". :D

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Same here, but I'm not always in the bet mood when someone bounces me out of a sound sleep either. :P

Yes, I was reaching into the tank to grab him and heard a weird noise, I couldn't; figure out what it was then I listened to him and he was hissing at me...it was cute lol.

I've had mine since April and he has only hissed once and that was during the second week he was home:P It was pretty funny because he was wrapped around me like a belt, stuck his neck out into the open away from me, and then hissed at the air basically LOL. He's goofy and has never done it since.

Some brushes have an air-filled rubber base which the bristles are stuck into. Push on it quickly, and it sounds like a snake's hiss, LOL!

My smallest girl used to hiss when you picked up her hide, or picked her up....or so I'm told. I have funky hearing and can't actually hear them hiss. I have seen her hiss though. I saw her sides move funny, and my friend that was there with me told me that she was hissing :P At least I know what to look for. She's gotten over the 'big bad snake' syndrome since she has been handled more often. ^_^

However, not being able to hear the hiss is a very good reason why I won't ever own a snake that is big enough to actually hurt me... hissing is the kind of sign you want to be aware of! (and rattling....can't hear that either!)

It was kind of cute when my Mojave hatchling hissed at me the first time. It really takes a lot out of them to get that hiss out lol. He was just going into shed though, I understood the crankiness.

I get hissed at on a daily basis, if I don't hear hissing in the snake room that's when I get worried :)

Some of mine hiss regularly and some don't. I find it cute...and it rarely deters me from pestering them.

I don't know a single snake I've ever encountered that doesn't have the ability to hiss..

pythons, boas, vipers, cobras, colubrids..

I guess I've never thought about sand boas, I've never seen one be pissy before, and they just don't look like they could ever be "hissy" in particular, but I bet they could if they wanted to.

As with eventide, I find it cute too :D

When I first got my coastal carpet python, she would put on a show whenever I got too close for her comfort. She'd hiss and get coiled up and puff up, but that wore off very quickly as she settled. She was just shook up from shipping and being somewhere new, understandable especially for a young snake. Never struck once, it was all for show.

My 09 spider and normal used to hiss at me all the time until they got used to me handling them and they no longer hiss. They used to strike at me too but now their cool.

I have a bp that will hiss constantly when i hold her but it almost sounds like a weeze. when i feel her muscles contract i hear her hiss a little, is this bad news? keep in mind she has been doing it since i got her about 3 months ago and i have not noticed and infection development and seems perfectly healthy regardless.

My new female pastel let me know she didnt appreciate the frd ex ride here today by hissing quite loud at me LOL..I just told her to shut up and continued on with my activities LOL

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I have a bp that will hiss constantly when i hold her but it almost sounds like a weeze. when i feel her muscles contract i hear her hiss a little, is this bad news? keep in mind she has been doing it since i got her about 3 months ago and i have not noticed and infection development and seems perfectly healthy regardless.

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Nah, that's just a normal hiss. They make the sound by expelling air out their nose very quickly, so the muscles contracting is normal.

One of my babies does that, but I call it "huffing" instead of hissing because they do it with their mouth closed.

My little boy, Nago, always huffs when I pick him up. It's just his way of telling the big, bad monster [me], that he could do some serious damage if he had to.

He's my little sweetie. He's never struck at me, but his huffing scares hubby to death, even though he's not even big enough to get your finger in his mouth.:rofl:

Gale

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Originally Posted by Eventide

Nah, that's just a normal hiss. They make the sound by expelling air out their nose very quickly, so the muscles contracting is normal.

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Thanks for the feedback :)

Hey all, just joined this am.

I have 31 bp's all I have acquired in the last year. Pastels can be hissy. My male is serious, the female not. I have 2 sister BP het pieds that hiss every time but never struck. I have a female het albino that hisses and then strikes, LOL. But I would say 80% never hiss or strike. But, if you come to my house, and I say go pick up my butter, I probably dont like you. HA HA

My pastel girl hissed at me on the first day. She never spoke to me since then.