Hissed at for the first time - I feel so special!

I had to clean Fuzzy's tub yesterday because he left me a smelly present in the corner (Holy crap (no pun intended!) these things like to save up for a big one, don't they?) I decided to try switching his water to one of the smaller crock bowls. Currently all snakes are on newspaper due to one having mites.

Big mistake on my part. He spilled the water. Soaked his tub. I discovered it about an hour later. He was sitting on wet, cold newspaper and he was in a very foul mood. When I took the lid off, he jerked back into striking position. When I reached in and touched him, he hissed at me! Thankfully, there were no witnesses, because I giggled like a little girl.

Cleaned the tub, dried it, put the big bowl back. No worries there. Just thought it was a slightly amusing story and a first, wanted to share it!

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Well he had every right :). One of mine hissed at me the other night. I think she just didn't want to be bothered. I bothered her anyway.

my bp always hiss at me when she is nearly turn blue.when she hiss,i check her belly,if it turn pink,i know she will shed soon,if not,i will check my husbandry again.

its nice of them to hiss first and kiss later.

My male normal used to hiss at me all the time when he was just a hatchling. He eventually learned that this cute little act was not going to scare me away so he does not even hiss at me anymore unless he is in deep shed.

I used to have a 18 foot Burm that liked to soak in my slop sink. She would hiss at me when she didn't want to come out, and at her size, I left her there until she decided to come out on her own.

I love my balls for their hissing - because at least theres a warning before i get bit

Giggle away. I don't know why, but I find hissing just hysterical!

...probably helps that none of my hissers are biters.

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Originally Posted by loonunit

Giggle away. I don't know why, but I find hissing just hysterical!

...probably helps that none of my hissers are biters.

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Yeah, he didn't bite. Didn't really expect him to either. He used to be really iffy, really head shy. Couple weeks of handling regularly fixed that, now he's just a scaly, legless teddy bear. With a slight attitude problem.

lol yeah the hissing is just downright adorable. the 1st time my girl hissed at me i was surprised by it once i realized she was hissing but then laughed hard at how it looked.
first of all she was deep shed and was hiding in one of the hide boxes and i had to go in to spray the bark.
the second i started sliding the door open she inflated her body and let out a long loud hiss but in the process of doing that her rising body made the hide box rise up making her visible underneath it.
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lucky for her she was in shed or i would've taken her out just for spite (to show her that hissing wont make me go away).
the next time she hissed at me she was not happy that i was trying to remove her from underneath my 9 yr old daughter's shirt. she had gone up the wrist opening, all the way through the sleeve and had found a nice warm cozy spot in my daughters armpit with most of her body still in the sleeve, lol. when i went to gently pull her out she inflated her body making it fit very tight in the sleeve. as i slowly tried to easy her body out her last ditch effort was to hook the tip of her tail on the hem at the bottom of the sleeve.

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18 foot Burm

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at her size, I left her there until she decided to come out on her own.

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faced with something THAT big i'd leave her be too. :P

Heh heh,

I love the "talkers" - the two normal hatchlings I sold last were almost constant hissers. :D

I usually find my self talking back to them - it may be senility rather than anthropomorphism though. :P


dr del

I have yet to earn the honor. Even in full blue, my snakes don't hiss. One will just ball up if she doesn't want to be touched, and the other doesn't ever seem to care.

lol My Granite female hiss at me couple days ago.. she is Skittish one but She tag me (defense reaction) first day I have her :rofl::rofl::rofl: so her Hisss dont impress me at all....
whe I use to live in Florida I had "dinker" male who was BIG TIME HISSER... He was always like.. MKAY... HISSSSS.... GIME THAT RAT....BUT DONT TOUCH ME HISSSSS :rofl:

Not sure who all keeps Boas and Balls, but I have both and while I've been hissed at by a few BP's will little issue, a boa is totally different and much scarier (at least for me). My favorite pair are Central American's, which are smaller, but are typically more aggressive.
BP's just puff and push the air out of their noses or mouth/nose, but it's a flattening of the body. A Boa will rear up, open its mouth, and push the air out in the classic snake hiss. Not only is it crazy to see, but it's super loud as well. If my guy hisses at me (he does when I go in to get him) and I put him back while he's still hissing, I can hear it clear in the other room. I'm sure there are some good youtubes out there for the hissing boa.

Haha, this amused me. :P I've been hissed at a few times. Only by my Normal male because prior to me owning him, he hadn't been handled in two to three years. :rolleyes: Except his hisses were usually followed by a lovely strike.

You're lucky you survived...you know what they say about these monsters... :rolleyes:

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You're lucky you survived...you know what they say about these monsters... :rolleyes:

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I know! I was shaking, I was so terrified. Or perhaps I was shaking because I was giggling and snorting and hoping he wouldn't notice. He's bashful, you know.

Crazy, crazy! I just got hissed at for the first time today, too! Axel's UTH therm-probe had popped out, and I keep the probe under his warm hide. Well, I wanted to know which hide he was in...sooo, I poked him. The noise freaked me out, haha, but once I realized it was a hiss, had a good laugh. :rofl:

boa hissing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7PntMUrhAc

i think bp hiss is more scarier than boa,because we dont know what she will do next,attack or hide her head.boa is in another hand,they hiss n they will strike.so bp have a little more suprise than boa.

I love i when Adena tell me off with her hissing, she is so loud its cute i laught every time lol. Her little sister Aldara doesnt hiss just recoils and looks, and my bigger girl Ancantha doesnt care i can do anything she hasnt hissed or stuck once.

I love when they hiss i giggle too lol my gf thinks im a tard for it :).

jeez they were really being mean to the snake in that video! dumb@@@es