Im watching you....

Does anyone elses snakes do this? I just recently moved my ratsnake into my bedroom and everyday im watching tv shes watching ME! And when she notices that i see her she will go back into her hide, then i look away and shes watching me again!

I honestly find it really cute and funny and was just curious if anyone elses snakes does the same thing.

(Sorry for the blurry pic, i saw her and snapped a pic really quick. But in the spotlight you can see her barely sticking out of her hide just watching me lol)
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Never experienced that, probably because my snakes are in racks and usually out of sight but in your picture it really does look like she was very interested in w.e you were doing. Lol

Nagini loves to stare at us, especially on feeding day. It's hilarious when all of the animals feeding schedules all match up and they are all staring hungrily at us! It's cute when our boa does it. Our pacman frog's stare is honestly the most hilariously intimidating. No curiosity in that face. Just hunger, and the thoughts "I might someday grow big enough to EAT you!" running through that brain. I love it!

Maru also stares at us sometimes! It's cute!

3 of mine do this. :P I got scared out last night. Sarabi is in a 55 on the floor and i was next to it, and I skim over and BOOM I see this huge mouth looking at me! lol

I love when they stare at you, it's cute! now when they try to bite at you through the cage, that's a little "not cute" :rolleyes:

speaking of it she's doing it now. :P

that's really funny, I use racks so I personally have never noticed this. LOL

2 of mine are in a tank (partitioned). The female will poke her head out every time I'm in the room. She came from a home that didn't feed her too often, so I always imagine she's saying, "you got rat???"

Ok cool, so im not the only one being stalked on a regular basis lol :gj:

Its funny how a snakes mind works, they all have a one of a kind personality.

Sometimes my baby hog island boa following me in her tub when I pass by her tub. Most of all, she come out of her hide and check me out when I look inside the tub form outside. I think boas are very curious snakes.

My ball does this. Every single time I walk in the room, no matter what I'm doing, he pokes his head out of his hide and just watches me. If I go to the tank he usually pulls back in slowly. It is really cute. He's just a curious lil guy, I guess.

My other two honestly couldn't care less XD

When I had my snakes in tanks I had to keep a black heat bulb running to keep my ambient temp up at night. I woke up several nights to total darkness with a light blue glow coming from the tank and this!

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edit: no, he is not and was not sick

I guess snakes really do have a curious mind, the constant "staring" behavior actually amazes me....i always wonder what their thinking in their little heads lol :D

Mine always has her head sticking out of her hide unless she just ate. Always.:O

Talk about a coincidence! I JUST recorded and uploaded this from tonight. The vid is self explanatory... :D I noticed them both just sitting there watching me, even when I moved close to the tubs. So I grabbed my video cam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vODht...1&feature=plcp

I have two that do this. My big male pastel pokes his head out of hide and stares at me or my dog. My bumblebee will come out and follow me or my wife up and down her tank. At first I thought she was hungry but she does it all the time. She loves to come out and say hi.

oh yes, this is regular at our house. We have 14 snakes and no racks, so someone is always hungry, begging, peeking or watching. The corn snake only comes out and stares at us when he's hungry...and the hognose snakes too. They will watch me when i'm over by their tanks, but they follow me back and forth if they're hungry. It's so easy to personify them...they just act so different when they know food comes from *you* lol

Our female ball periscopes sometimes to see what we're doing, and we just got a new pastel male baby who does the same. Both of those will periscope and peek, when held. They both love to look around, and stick their faces in what we're doing when we're holding them. Cracks me up, and we have to be careful sometimes or we'll have snake into whatever we're holding or doing lol.
The other balls aren't that curious, and stay mostly in hides. Though i've noticed that two of those boys seem to love it when i switch up their cages after being cleaned. They'll cruise around, wrap around branches and sniff around. They'll do that at first and then just settle to stare at me, or else go back in their hides.

I swear we are being begged sometimes though. Some people argue with me and say snakes are creatures of instinct...which is true...but i will tell you, when you have been begged by a 4.25 foot ball python, you *know* it's begging. lol funniest thing i ever saw!
His huge tank is on cinder blocks (covertly hidden so it looks not so white trash lol) on the floor, and i sit on the floor in the corner sometimes organizing herp stuff. We'd had him about 3 months, and he was shy, etc. Well one day, he just wanted to eat. And he sure let me know. Nosing the corner i was in, following me, even reaching up to the lid to stretch after me as i walked by, following, sticking his nose and pushing on the glass...it was ridiculous. He ate instantly when we offered *lol* complete personality change for him, since he was so scared, and had been an abused snake.

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Talk about a coincidence! I JUST recorded and uploaded this from tonight. The vid is self explanatory... :D I noticed them both just sitting there watching me, even when I moved close to the tubs. So I grabbed my video cam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vODhtop9GyI&list=UUvKjdQBSDi00PGl4ZfVuewA&index=1&feature=plcp

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This is EXACTLY what my rat snakes do, my hypo everglades did it the other night for like an hour straight just following my finger everywhere lol. A great video Knox, good catch! :gj:

My pine snake does that all the time. I get the unsettling feeling that she's evaluating whether or not she's big enough to eat me.