Minnie, the Mean Snake

OK, she's het pied, and not all that much to look at. But this girl is my favorite, and to my eyes the prettiest one I own, even over the two morphs.

Maybe I shouldn't be calling her the mean snake anymore. She quit striking. But then again, she can give a good hiss and a superb stink-eye response to being picked up. This is Minnie hanging out at the edge of the garden. She loves that rock. Once she gets up on that thing she will not move.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n.../Minnie007.jpg

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...piccropped.jpg

Haha, stink-eye! What is it with het pieds? My male het pied thought it was FUN biting me, I swear.

She does look content. Nice looking snake! Thanks for sharing:)

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Originally Posted by loonunit

Haha, stink-eye! What is it with het pieds? My male het pied thought it was FUN biting me, I swear.

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I don't know what it is. I've only been around a couple of them, but both of them had an attitude.

beautiful snake glad she stop biting gives me hope that my het albino male zeus will stop soon

Minnie mostly bit when she was being picked up, so what I did was got a cage hook and took her in and out of the cage at least a half dozen times a day for a week. She gave up on biting.

Now she only hisses and gives me the "if looks could kill you'd already be planted" glare. So I can go right in and pick her up with my hands and still have all of my skin when I'm finished.

She's a talented snake. She knows how to whistle, but only when she's in shed. :) I've heard several that whistle when they shed, but this girl is loud.

She is pretty, I love the pattern on the end of her tail! :gj:

She is sharp.... I love the pattern... My het pied has the same crazy pattern....:gj:

She's pretty. Love the picture of her on the rock.

Hee hee, have you ever heard the Cab Calloway song, Minnie the Moocher? Maybe now she is a moocher instead of being just mean ^^ She is LOVELY by the way, love her wierd ringer thing on her rump.

What a strange pattern near her tail, I love it! :gj:

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the "if looks could kill you'd already be planted" glare

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YEAH i get that one too from my mojo girl.
scares the ****ens outta me when she focuses on my hand when i'm cleaning.

see, i clean the terrarium 1 half at a time and i clean whatever 1/2 she's not in at the moment so i'm not disturbing her by taking out. the only time she really gets taken out is for handling and even then that is 2 x's p/ week (as long as shes not in shed or digesting a meal).
i havent heard her do an actual hiss since the 1st time she shed for me back in december. it was SO cute too cuz she was always curled up in one of her hide boxes and i'd go in to clean or whatever and she'd start hissing as soon as i slid one of the glass doors open and didnt stop until i closed it back up and walked away. she'd puff up full of air too, raising the hide box as she did so.
now she does what i can only describe as a "huff"...it's a very sharp, short, loud & sudden "SS!" and she only does it when jerking her head back.
does that sound actually have a name already or am i ok calling it a huff?

Such a pretty snake!

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Originally Posted by darkbloodwyvern

Hee hee, have you ever heard the Cab Calloway song, Minnie the Moocher? Maybe now she is a moocher instead of being just mean ^^ She is LOVELY by the way, love her wierd ringer thing on her rump.

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Thanks! Minnie is my favorite snake, even though she's not a visual pied.

That weird little partial ringer is the thing that made me pick her out. The white doesn't come up very far and you can't see it in that shot, but she has yellow/orange that trails down onto her belly for about 1/3 of her body starting at the tail.

Moocher suits her too, BTW. This girl weighs about 400 gms and she'd weigh 1000 if I fed her the way she wants to eat. I give her a f/t rat wean once every five days, and she's looking for more as soon as she gets it down. I don't want to feed her any more than that because I don't want to grow her up too fast. I plan on breeding her eventually and I don't want to be trying to breed a big fat snake that hasn't matured sufficiently in other ways to handle the task. I hate slugs. :mad:

She and my pied girl Dorothy came from Peter Kahl. I paid a little more for them than I could have paid elsewhere, but I feel like I got my money's worth and then some. They're amazingly healthy snakes with great appetites and not at all picky about their food. They take rats, mice, live, p/k, f/t --anything that is plonked down in front of him. I don't have a very good shot of Dorothy, but here is what she looks like:

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...inthegrass.jpg

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Originally Posted by darkbloodwyvern

Hee hee, have you ever heard the Cab Calloway song, Minnie the Moocher? Maybe now she is a moocher instead of being just mean ^^ She is LOVELY by the way, love her wierd ringer thing on her rump.

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Thanks! Minnie is my favorite snake, even though she's not a visual pied.

That weird little partial ringer is the thing that made me pick her out. The white doesn't come up very far and you can't see it in that shot, but she has yellow/orange that trails down onto her belly for about 1/3 of her body starting at the tail.

Moocher suits her too, BTW. This girl weighs about 400 gms and she'd weigh 1000 if I fed her the way she wants to eat. I give her a f/t rat wean once every five days, and she's looking for more as soon as she gets it down. I don't want to feed her any more than that because I don't want to grow her up too fast. I plan on breeding her eventually and I don't want to be trying to breed a big fat snake that hasn't matured sufficiently in other ways to handle the task. I hate slugs. :mad:

She and my pied girl Dorothy came from Peter Kahl. I paid a little more for them than I could have paid elsewhere, but I feel like I got my money's worth and then some. They're amazingly healthy snakes with great appetites and not at all picky about their food. They take rats, mice, live, p/k, f/t --anything that is plonked down in front of them. I don't have a very good shot of Dorothy, but here is what she looks like:

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...inthegrass.jpg

Feeding time. Minnie loves her ratsicles.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n.../Dinner003.jpg

And so does Dorothy....

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n.../Dinner001.jpg

It's nice to have good eaters.

I also have a male het pied that's an absolute jerk. Every time I open the tub he either gives me the stink-eye or strikes! Glad I'm not the only one with this problem. :confused:

She's a looker! I really wish that the hissing could be one definite determiner for telling if you have a het pied. My pos het pied girl hisses like crazy (never once bit me though).

She did a fake strike (one of those "bump" strikes with her mouth closed) at me when I was putting her back into her cage today. My arm was only 8 inches from her and she could have really nailed me but as it were she didn't touch me and I only caught the movement out of the corner of my eye. Maybe she would have preferred that I left that big load of turdage and urates in her little home.

Minnie is a hoot. She works so hard at trying to convince me that she is a Serpent to be Feared™ But she's never latched on yet.

Great looking ball!!

Hey, if they do it with cats I can do it with pythons.

LOLsnake.

I CAN HAZ TEH RATZ?
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...canhazrats.jpg

She is so pretty. My spider lady gives me the same song and dance when I go to pick her up. Feisty is good thing :)

I'm starting to think that Minnie wants a larger bowl. This looks so undignified, even if you ignore the paw prints.

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n...dminnie004.jpg

hey redneck_crow...funny thread.
i've got a glaring hissy girl too but mine's a mojo not a het pied. i just love it when she hisses at me cuz the last time she did it she was curled up in a hide box & in the process of inflating herself she "lifted" the hide box, completely exposing herself. i laughed & was like "aww, well, hello to you too."
my girl has never bitten me but my god those glares make me nervous!
i've had to give her a quick squirt with the water spray bottle a few times cuz i swear, she was getting target lock on my hand!