Anyone else have a super friendly BP?

Out of all my BPs (8 total that I take care of), I have just one that is extremely friendly and actually seems to enjoy being handled. She's my little coral glow girl named Quorra. She lives in my bedroom in a T8 and is the only snake that's really a true pet to me. Whenever I come in the room she comes poking out of her hide and if I offer my hand she will climb aboard to be handled. If I did that to most of my other snakes, I'd probably get bit. Anyone else have BPs like this? I am curious if her offspring will have similar personalities, as I plan to breed her once she's grown up.

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And yes, her second favorite pastime is knocking over my thermometer in the back of her cage...One day I'll put a screw in there to keep it upright.

I have my first snake she's around 3 and a half years old her names precious and she has never bit or struck out at anybody and I was even helping her out of shed it was rolling right off perfectly right up until the tail she gave a jerk and before I could let go the shed skin tore her new skin and I saw blood I felt soo bad I wanted to cry so I fixed her up but it wasn't till after I realized she didn't bit me and I think it's because she knew I didn't mean too

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I've also fell asleep with her and thought I lost her she curled up under the pillow beside me :)

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Both my BCI boa girls are like that. They love to come out and ride on me or stretch out on the bed or :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r: on my chair back. But out of those 2, my sunglow is the friendliest. She constantly sits by me or uses her tail to hold my finger or wrist of some part of me. If she is "detached" from me, she will curl up in the boa coils and sit there. My pied girl is a terror though lol. She loves to come out as well but when out, all she wants to do is get in trouble. She tries climbing the light fixtures or tables or anything she can get close to, she will try and climb it. its like she is not even a BP but a GTP or something haha.

Both my BCI boa girls are like that. They love to come out and ride on me or stretch out on the bed or coil up on my chair back. But out of those 2, my sunglow is the friendliest. She constantly sits by me or uses her tail to hold my finger or wrist of some part of me. If she is "detached" from me, she will curl up in the boa coils and sit there. My pied girl is a terror though lol. She loves to come out as well but when out, all she wants to do is get in trouble. She tries climbing the light fixtures or tables or anything she can get close to, she will try and climb it. its like she is not even a BP but a GTP or something haha.

Zyali, my male BP, is like that. I open the cage, and he comes out and crawls onto my hand.

Your girl is an absolute cutie! My pied girl Toffi is the same way. Very eager to hang out with my husband and I. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...bdf9b0c944.jpg

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Out of all my BPs (8 total that I take care of), I have just one that is extremely friendly and actually seems to enjoy being handled. She's my little coral glow girl named Quorra. She lives in my bedroom in a T8 and is the only snake that's really a true pet to me. Whenever I come in the room she comes poking out of her hide and if I offer my hand she will climb aboard to be handled. If I did that to most of my other snakes, I'd probably get bit. Anyone else have BPs like this? I am curious if her offspring will have similar personalities, as I plan to breed her once she's grown up.

https://youtu.be/cwUrtePTZ_0

And yes, her second favorite pastime is knocking over my thermometer in the back of her cage...One day I'll put a screw in there to keep it upright.

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Strangely , I've never had anything but super - friendly Royals .
Currently have just 6 but each one is marvellously friendly .

My slightly over a year old male super pastel is very friendly but he won't really come out of his hide to me like that. He's never hissed or struck and really handles well. He did stop the other day while I was putting him back in his T8 and get a drink while I was holding him which I thought was pretty cool.

My Nugget, spinner blast male is a real sweetie. If we open his viv he will come out and coil on the arm of the sofa. He loves being cradled like a baby, and is so relaxed he just lets his coils drape over our arms. I still say its a security thing, the more secure an animal feels the more relaxed they are, and the more they will seek out that feeling of security and comfort.

my friendliest BP's are my paradox BEL and Pieds. they don't exactly come out of their tubs to greet me, but i haven't really tried it. maybe i will. anyway they don't mind handling, will chill with me and explore when they're bored. :)

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Your girl is an absolute cutie! My pied girl Toffi is the same way. Very eager to hang out with my husband and I. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...bdf9b0c944.jpg

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What a beautiful pied! I am really starting appreciate my snakes more for their personality than their beauty. As I said, 9/10 of my snakes won't come out of their hide and don't become friendly until I've removed them from their environment and basically forced them to start exploring. Quorra is unique as she comes out of her hide as soon as she sees me in the room. I almost feel bad when I can't handle her because she sits at the window trying to get out for a good 20 minutes before she gives up and goes back in her hide.

It's nice to see other BPs have this quality and I'm interested in the boas that are similar. I've been thinking of a Hogg Island or Dumeril's for a while now.

Yeah, my 2010 albino female in my avatar is by far the most shy ball python I have. She has been through so much in the line of illnesses. She actually almost died back in 2012 with a septicemia. Bounced back and just laid her virgin clutch of eggs in August of 2015. She is a real miracle story. :tears: All the eggs (5) were healthy and are double het albino pieds. I held back a male and two females. She is my pride and joy! Actually, in the avatar pic she is gravid.

Here she was right after she laid her virgin clutch! Haha. Puppy dog tame to the max.http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file.../0/9/eggs1.jpg

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Here she was right after she laid her virgin clutch! Haha. Puppy dog tame to the max.http://ball-pythons.net/gallery/file.../0/9/eggs1.jpg

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I also have an Albino that's tame as a puppy. He's our ambassador to people who aren't too comfortable with snakes.

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Wow MM, that's so cool! Maybe we should start doing some presentations about ball python behavior and care? These albino balls could possibly take us very far. LoL. That SFV stands for San Fernando Valley, correct?

My young BP doesn't come out of his hide for me too, but if I handle him he gets so curious and starts climbing all across me, although he's about to fall down every time ^^ but he never tried to bite me or anyone else although I got this young fellow (~3 months) for about 3 weeks :D

My little snoot is very friendly, he responds if not to my voice, then at least the vibrations of me talking and moving around and comes out of his hide when I come into the living room. Any time I open his cage for any reason (unless he's eaten recently) he comes out to investigate and will crawl up my arm if it's offered. He's supper calm when held, and really likes curling up on my lap under the blankets when I'm watching tv at night.

My normal ball loves to be out but gets into all kinds of stuff if you're not watching her - behind the TV (tangled around the wires), got herself stuck in the handle of a mug a couple of weeks ago (didn't see that coming and it was hard to get her to back out!), had to dig her out of my rocker/recliner as she had gotten half of her body down between the armrest and seat (again a real tricky process to reverse) and then one night she wrapped on our wrought iron handrail on our stairs so tight that it took me minutes to free her (my first experience with her). Have to watch her constantly! My boa mostly stays attached, in some manner, to me, usually by his tail. Not nearly as adventurous but he is getting better all the time. They are amazingly strong and I can see the day coming that I won't be able to allow the boa to hang around my neck!

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Wow MM, that's so cool! Maybe we should start doing some presentations about ball python behavior and care? These albino balls could possibly take us very far. LoL. That SFV stands for San Fernando Valley, correct?

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That's correct sir. Did you used to live in South California? Some local presentations regarding BP care would be great.

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Serket is a little less interested in the goings on of the room than Strudel, but I think that's probably because Strudel is just hopeful she'll get more food lol. They're both lovely and chill animals who like to casually explore their surrounding when they're out of their enclosures or hang out in my lap. My kids handle them all the time too, no problem. Idk how one would go about starting up one of those reptile outreach programs, but if I get more sweet animal ambassadors like these guys I sure would like to!

My BP doesn't seek attention too much, but she's extremely curious. She used to stay with me all the time while watching TV and now she's one and a half and climbs the (very cold) window will by my bed for some reason! I don't let her on the couch being that she'll get stuck and she's fallen off my bed thrice. (Totally fine BTW.) Never bitten or striked at anyone and enjoys crawling into clothing. I trust toddlers to handle her with close super vision. :D

I had this idea of teaching my class at school about snakes, but that would be rather difficult as I'm a student myself and we have classes of course. 20/23 kids in my class are scared of these snakes, when they've never actually seen one before.

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My normal ball loves to be out but gets into all kinds of stuff if you're not watching her - behind the TV (tangled around the wires), got herself stuck in the handle of a mug a couple of weeks ago (didn't see that coming and it was hard to get her to back out!), had to dig her out of my rocker/recliner as she had gotten half of her body down between the armrest and seat (again a real tricky process to reverse) and then one night she wrapped on our wrought iron handrail on our stairs so tight that it took me minutes to free her (my first experience with her). Have to watch her constantly! My boa mostly stays attached, in some manner, to me, usually by his tail. Not nearly as adventurous but he is getting better all the time. They are amazingly strong and I can see the day coming that I won't be able to allow the boa to hang around my neck!

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That's so true about Boas being super strong ( at least compared to other types ) . My 7' Boa sometimes wraps himself around my leg and I'm helpless :)

Wonder which species are regarded as THE strongest .

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That's correct sir. Did you used to live in South California? Some local presentations regarding BP care would be great.

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I used to live in NoCal ( Seasde, and Salinas). I have two nephews down in Chula Vista. I will be relocating back to NoCal (Yuba City) at the end of 2016. We can do this though! LoL. Haha. Thanks. Our super friendly albino ball pythons really should meet. Male and female too? We might be on to something sir.

I have two unrelated ball pythons with very sweet personalities, a 2010 female yellowbelly and a 2013 male ivory.

They never hiss, not even the quiet huff of mild annoyance I usually get from the others if I disturb them while they're sleeping. They're both great eaters but they never go into feeding mode unless a rat is right in front of them. They're always calm and curious, never defensive, nervous, or even head-shy. The female is a bit more outgoing than the male (possibly because she's older, and much larger) and she loves to be outside when it's warm.

The yellowbelly produced a clutch for me 2 years ago. I still have 4 out of 6, and I've noticed that some of her offspring seemed to develop a personality like hers once they were over a year old. OTOH, the sire is super shy, but none of the hatchlings turned out shy like him.

This year the yellowbelly paired up with the ivory, so I'm hoping for a batch of super friendly balls. :)

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That's awesome greco. I found this thread while searching for "head shy". My new cinnamon girl (unknown age, probably less than a year) just had her first real handling session with me last night and she was soooo chill I actually got concerned something was wrong with her. Im new to balls and worrry about every little thing though. She was not head shy at all and even seemed to enjoy it. She even let me rub some gunk from the corner of her eye that had been there since I got her. It was crazy. She's still active, flicking that tongue, and eating like a champ so I'd say I just got a real sweetheart on my hands

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The BP I had years ago was like that, very outgoing and confident. Even from the first day I got him as a baby, he was curious and outgoing and not even head shy. Never flinched when I lifted his hide off him, and would often climb onto my hand when I opened his tank. He'd explore around while he was out, and when he was done exploring he'd curl up around my neck and go to sleep (or whatever it is snakes do when they aren't doing anything else) - occasionally I'd even forget that he was there until I went to take off my shirt to go to bed and find the collar pinned down. When I had him out, if I went in the bathroom I'd cup my hands under the running water and he'd usually take a little sip or two. He did pee on my bed once or twice, but I guess nobody's perfect. ;)

My new baby is a much more timid character, but he's slowly getting less scared of us. Hopefully he'll eventually learn that it's safe to go exploring and there aren't any predators around.

All four of our bps are super sweethearts. Our pied, Aurora will poke her head out of her hide everytime we come into the reptile room and loves being held especially by my fiance lol. All of our other three they dont poke their heads out of their hides when we approach their tanks, but they still love being held. Our male lemon blast, sherbert loves to curl up under my scarf if I'm wearing one and poke his head out lol

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My baby bumblebee ball python kobe is very tame. As a first ball python I never thought he would immediately come out of his cage when i open it. When he's being handled he starts exploring and periscoping. When he starts corkscrewing in his cage when exploring i take him out of his cage to handle him and it actually seems to calm him down and he stops corkscrewing. I really love this little snake :)

This is what Valentine does!!! Anytime I go near her cage she wants to come out - huge attention seeker and she slithers right into our hands. My boyfriend jokes she's high maintenance like her mom lol =P. We have decided she is the only pet we will ever have and boy am I sure glad she's so friendly and curious. I didn't know it was such a rarity to have an attention seeker. Maybe one day I will take her to my nieces' class since they are learning about reptiles.

p.s. Quorra is such a cutie! I bet it's so nice to come home to her.

To ashleymarie - your pied Toffi is a stunning snake!!! Simply beautiful.

All of mine are either super friendly or very tolerant, except one little het pied girl. I think I took her hide off of her while she was sleeping and she was really pissed. I put her in a bowl to weigh her and went across the room to grab something and heard her strike out at the bowl lol. She shed and pooped so I cleaned her cage out today and held her while she balled, but after a minute or two she just got out into striking pose and looked like she was ready to bite at any minute.

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That's awesome greco. I found this thread while searching for "head shy". My new cinnamon girl (unknown age, probably less than a year) just had her first real handling session with me last night and she was soooo chill I actually got concerned something was wrong with her. Im new to balls and worrry about every little thing though. She was not head shy at all and even seemed to enjoy it. She even let me rub some gunk from the corner of her eye that had been there since I got her. It was crazy. She's still active, flicking that tongue, and eating like a champ so I'd say I just got a real sweetheart on my hands

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My male actually seems to enjoy having his head scratched - lightly. When he's out I can very gently, just with one finger scratch the top of his head. He'll push his head harder against my hand and start to arch his neck up. It's so cute! I guess when you don't have any way to reach a spot it feels good when someone else reaches it for you :)

she's so cute, she loves ya!!!

Cake is extremely tolerant and curious, possible even friendly! :O Same that when I come into the room sometimes, he will poke his head out of his hide and proceed to poke around the top of the lid to come out, when he wasn't doing that before. And then when I do take him out, he just sits on my lap.

Not that this is proof of anything, but- why would he want to come out when I arrive, if he just ends up sitting on my lap? Who knows. :rolleyes:

On the contrary, Yukon is weird and kind of skittish all the time, like a normal snake. Cake is the only one who could really be thought of as personable.