I am making no progress taming/training woma python.
She is over a year old now and still cant be handled with my hands without a hook to keep her head away from any part of my skin. Im at a loss as to what to do.I feed her plenty and try to handle her a few days after feeding hoping the food response will be curbed but nope.
So is she too old now to change?
Re: I am making no progress taming/training woma python.
Make sure you don't have the scent of any other snake on your hands, and in your case, you might want to make sure that's your whole body and get a snake hook that's used only for her. My woma is usually an absolute sweetheart, but if there's other-snake smell on your hands/arms he will get agitated.
Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro
Re: I am making no progress taming/training woma python.
Definitely make sure there's no other snake smell and prepare to be curiously bitten many times when working with Aspidites. Still imo the best species there is but definitely bitey with their strong food response. They seem to go through calm phases and angsty phases.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Re: I am making no progress taming/training woma python.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Aedryan Methyus
I'm sorry to hear that you're having such a difficult time with her. Especially since I will be picking up my first pair of Womas this Sunday... lol I've never worked with Womas, but it has been my understanding that they're typically calm and docile as can be once you get them out of their enclosures and rarely ever bite once they're out. Is that not necessarily true?
By nature they are non defensive, calm and inquisitive however as juveniles they have an insane feeding response. Once they realize you are not food you are good to go.
Re: I am making no progress taming/training woma python.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Aedryan Methyus
I'm sorry to hear that you're having such a difficult time with her. Especially since I will be picking up my first pair of Womas this Sunday... lol I've never worked with Womas, but it has been my understanding that they're typically calm and docile as can be once you get them out of their enclosures and rarely ever bite once they're out. Is that not necessarily true?
It's inquisitive. They burrow a lot and they're hilarious to watch. If they start burrowing hard in your fingers though assume they will latch on and womas don't bite and release like a ball for instance. It's a 100% feed response. I have some pictures and even after 10 years on this forum I'm not sure if Deb would want me to share them or not? BUT babies will posture and headbutt sometimes. Womas being inquisitive take work. They're typically jumpy when they're small and calm when they're adults with the bitey phase being the in between sub adult time.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Re: I am making no progress taming/training woma python.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
enginee837
By nature they are non defensive, calm and inquisitive however as juveniles they have an insane feeding response. Once they realize you are not food you are good to go.
They have insane feed response their whole lives! I argue there the best snake to start with in the medium range because they're hard to not feed [emoji12]
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Re: I am making no progress taming/training woma python.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
BMorrison
Definitely make sure there's no other snake smell
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Prognathodon
Make sure you don't have the scent of any other snake on your hands
I'm considering the addition of a woma to my collection so reading all of the threads about them and getting some great information. Thank you enginee837 for your input as well.
Should womas should be housed in a separate area of the house if I have other snakes in my collection?
Re: I am making no progress taming/training woma python.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
BR8080
I'm considering the addition of a woma to my collection so reading all of the threads about them and getting some great information. Thank you enginee837 for your input as well.
Should womas should be housed in a separate area of the house if I have other snakes in my collection?
My balls and womas are all in the same room. In fact I have 3 sub 400g balls in the same hatchling rack as a couple month old woma.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Re: I am making no progress taming/training woma python.
My woma is in half of a T8 with a sand boa "next door" in a stack with other snakes. It doesn't seem to bother him, but on colubrid/boa feeding day he's usually at the door hoping for food. [emoji57] My guess is that they get used to general other-snake smell in the air, but the strong recent smell of another snake that's on the part of thing handling them gets their attention. I'm careful about cleaning my hands/arms before handling my boy, but he doesn't seem to care if, say, the shoulders of my shirt smell like the BP that was cruising around there a few minutes ago.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
Re: I am making no progress taming/training woma python.
Just to add, my woma is still a youngster, he'll be needing to move up to a whole T8 or a T10 soonish.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro