Is your burm a hisser?

How often is your burm hissing?

Mine is very vocal in and out of his cage

All the way up until she gets out of the cage she hisses LOUD

Some of mine hiss very loud until I get them out of their cage, but some don't hiss at all.

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Originally Posted by novato

Some of mine hiss very loud until I get them out of their cage, but some don't hiss at all.

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Same here..my female granite tends to do it the most.

We have a LaZBoy in our snake nook for reading. Lourdes hissed at me several times this morning while I was sitting in there..."Mom! I'm hungry!" :D

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Originally Posted by cassandra

We have a LaZBoy in our snake nook for reading. Lourdes hissed at me several times this morning while I was sitting in there..."Mom! I'm hungry!" :D

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Yes I remember him, you showed me a picture last year, or was it 2 yrs ago :D

Out of three, only one hisses A LOT...then again she is female and sometimes we just OOZE cranky! :D

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Originally Posted by drugaria

Yes I remember him, you showed me a picture last year, or was it 2 yrs ago :D

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The last good pictures we took of him were a year ago December :oops: so probably then.

I know, I know...new pictures. :rolleyes:

We have a 10' albino burm at our work, and he's very cage aggressive, but he never hisses. We just have him put his head in a vacuum tube, pull him out, and he's as sweet as a teddy bear. He's real good with the kiddo's too.

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Originally Posted by Purrrfect9

We have a 10' albino burm at our work, and he's very cage aggressive, but he never hisses. We just have him put his head in a vacuum tube, pull him out, and he's as sweet as a teddy bear. He's real good with the kiddo's too.

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Interesting...! :)

my albino granite and regular hiss when i first touch them, but my big granite hisses all the time, however ive only had him for a week and hes getting over a respiratory infection too so he wheezes and its hard to tell the difference

I've gotta say...I'm a little shocked to read about hissers and cage-aggressive burms. I have an 11-foot albino female that was neglected by her previous owner for the first 4 years of her life, and when I use her for school programs, etc. I always relate her personality to that of a giant yellow cow. I don't think I've ever heard her hiss, and she's never been the least bit aggressive that I can remember. That's not to say that she couldn't be, but I've just not seen it yet and I've had her for a couple of years.

Most baby burms hiss some of them grow out of it some of them dont. I have about 3 that dont hiss maybe 4. BUt the other 7-8 do. Usually only when I get them out or im messing in there cage but some of them hiss the entire time I handle them and everything. Its just like humans we have different personalitys some of us are nice as can be and some of us can be a bit snotty.

Undecided between "rarely" and "often" really... But, it's usually only when I place my hands within his enclosure, either to spot-clean, re-arrange something, change his water, or take him out. Once he's being handled though, he's lovely :) It's all bluff thus far, it appears. He's also a little'un though, so perhaps this may change with age... Also planning to begin hook training him soon (get him acquainted with it from as young an age as possible), so we'll see if that makes any difference too.

Yep our girk is a talker!
Sounds like a truck tire going off when i pull her out...
But never aggresive in the least.
Just likes to talk.
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Originally Posted by letstalksnakes

Yep our girk is a talker!
Sounds like a truck tire going off when i pull her out...
But never aggresive in the least.
Just likes to talk.
:)

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Some would say that that is rather typical of a female ;)

Ya my albino green hiss' everytime i get hime out never strikes but gets pissed when i try and get him out. My yearling albino on the other hand never hiss' shes a sweety.

My Shiroko(6ft albino Granite) likes to put his head right by your ear and hiss, its completely random and non-aggressive, I think he just likes to mess with our heads.

In my experience male Burms are far more vocal, 99% are hissy from birth to being around 1-2 then around 50% will 'grow out of it' and that tends to have nothing to do with 'tameness' ie even very tame snakes will hiss a lot.

My 16 ft. female would let out a long slow hiss from time to time. She didn't ever seem distressed or agitated--she just did it. It always made me laugh. :snake:

Yea my 11ft green burm male, will hiss when you open his cage, then when you pull him out, and while you hold him for the first minute or 2, then he decides to keep it to himself lol

Everytime I handle my 7' carpet he's quiet for about 5 to 10 mins and then starts to sound like semi truck brakes.

..quiet...quiet...quiet...HISSSSSSSSSSSSSS.........quiet...quiet... The air comes out of his nostrils so forcefully that you can feel it on your face from a couple of feet away.

I always thought he was losing patience with being handled and simply expressing himself. My other snakes would do this but nowhere near so strong. I had a buddy over recently and I told him about it and he said that it was simply a symptom of exertion - heavy breathing from exercise. Makes sense since he never tries to bite me.

Only my Hypo hisses and man does he hisssssssss....When the cage open to probably right before I put him back in...I won't put him back in till he's quiet...Sometimes he strikes, but I figure he'll get the pictured that I'm not leaving or stopping soon...

Geeez yes!

Bogart was my first snake and he would put on a show - hissin' like crazy everytime I would go to get him out as if to say leave me alone. Then of course, after being out for a few hours you couldn't get him back in the tank!

Nope.. Just a striker. Cant walk by her cage without hearing a thump from her hitting the door. Shes fairly good once she is out. Needs to be hooked out but after that she is just a little nervous. Breathes kinda heavy but no hissing so far. She is a 4 year old, 6 ft rescue and she is easier to handle than I would expect but she cant be trusted. I say she but I have not yet probed her yet. Educated guess lol

Was evaluating all my burms after this post and all to some degree hiss...Some just one quick hiss and then like my Hypo...Hyper hissing, but has mellowed out a good amount...Will no only hiss for a couple of minutes or after a quick move...But damn the breath stinks!!!! Like musky breath!!!