Behira - 2016 Female Ivory Ghost - First BCI

She looks good!

Lovely as always. There must be something about glasses...my guys seem to like to make a beeline for them as well.

My Aunt and Uncle spent last night with us and my Aunt held Behira and Feliz.

I am not sure she's ever held a snake before, but she totally hit it off with Behira.

Her smile says everything.

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That's so cool, nice when you get to convert some family members to liking your great scaly family ,, good job behira behaved her self

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Originally Posted by richardhind1972

That's so cool, nice when you get to convert some family members to liking your great scaly family ,, good job behira behaved her self

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Rich,

Once out of "food mode," Behira ALWAYS behaves herself. 100%. Totally puppy dog. I explained to my Aunt if she feels she wraps too tight to unwrap from the tail, but I also explained that she will never constrict except to kill prey. She will only hold on to feel safe and not to fall. I told her she's a nice, warm, tree.

She really is my favorite snake to handle and my most trustworthy snake. Snakes bite because of hunger/food drive and because they are scared/defensive. Behira only looks for food in her tank. Once touched with the hook, that problem is now solved. She is so brave and outgoing, she doesn't get spooked, at all. I can pet her head, poke her, rub her chin, etc. She just doesn't care. I don't have to worry about a defensive bite from her. Certainly not with me anyway. Although, I am able to do these things with her, I am respectful and deliberate with my actions. I explain this to others and always supervise when others' hold her.

As I've said before, I told the breeder the I wanted the most docile/tamest boa he had; any morph. He suggested Behira, who was a holdback, and a year old, and who had handled quite a bit. Small breeder and he knew her well. Add over a year of gentle handling and building trust with her and she's golden :).

Its great when you trust them that much, there’s only 3 and Gomez for now of mine I wouldn’t bring down if kids or family where round, all the rest are just fine


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My mother was over today and wanted to see Behira (as well as Feliz, Solana, Ferry, and Yafe, specifically - Yafe, of course she saw, but was not allowed to handle). She's both impressed with her size now, as well as in awe at how much more she has to grow, as well as a little intimidated. She commented both on how docile and sweet she is, but also on how incredibly strong she is already. I told her that sometimes, she doesn't want to back in her tank and that even at 1,200G, it can be a little work to get her back in.

We had a dialogue about it that I thought was kind of funny. It went like this:

Mom: If she's difficult to get back in now, and, as you say, she's going to be 5-6X bigger, and exponentially stronger, how will get her back in her tank if she doesn't want to go.

Me: Well, I don't think I can win on on pure strength. Even if I am in aggregate, stronger, she has better leverage, and can be very determined.

Mom: What will you do?

Me: I have a distinct advantage.

Mom: What?

Me: I am smarter than her.

Mom: Ahhhh.

Me: I have an entire brain section that she doesn't have. A frontal lobe. I can strategize and plan and think on the fly. I don't just react to stimuli (mostly). Watch.

I proceeded to show my mom several attempts at trying to get Behira back in her tank by going straight at it. Behira was having fun and wanted to play and climb and shot upwards every time.

So, I brought Behira down several feet and she shot up again and stuck her head into her tank. I put her tail and mid section in and closed the door.

Me: WALLLAH! Dave 1, Behira, 0!



Don't get me wrong. I love Behira to death. She's inquisitive, and brave, and curious, and a total sweetie. She's also great at climbing and striking and constricting rats, etc. Me, not so good on the climbing, or constricting part, and I'll be damned if I can eat my food whole or go weeks without eating for that matter. However, I'm a pretty good thinker. I am just calling a spade a spade. Not criticizing my beloved BCI.

Anyway, here are some pictures of my mom with Behira.

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Check out my new wardrobe! Didn't feel like starting a new thread, so I decided to post it here. I have one more coming, and it's boa related, but it's not as funny.

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Behira was all over the place tonight, so I only had her out for a few minutes. She has days like this. She's by no means aggressive, and at one point, was coming around my shoulder, rather quickly, and I put my hand up and knocked her good in the mouth. She shot backwards pretty good as I obvisouly spooked her a little, probably for the first time ever; she's pretty darn brave. I rubbed her side gently and after a few seconds, she calmed right down, and came around my shoulder, and of course, through my glasses again!

I got some really good pictures of her with the DSLR (below) and then put her back pretty quick. She's only like this 1/10 times I take her out and I make those handling sessions brief. She's getting strong and it makes for a lot of work for me. On a side note, I had Figment out earlier as well, and he's usually a spaz. Today, he was calm as can be. Go figure. Maybe they switched bodies for the day?

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I had Behira out today for a bit and she fell asleep in my lap. Not unusual for her to do so, but it's always cute. I was on the phone with a friend for a while, so I just let her be. She fell asleep about 5 minutes into the conversation and woke up about 40 minutes later and explored for the last 5 minutes of the conversation. Then I put her back.

It makes me very happy that she is comfortable enough with me to fall asleep on me all the time. She's very chill and relaxed when out, as are the other snakes, but she takes the cake. Out cold in a matter of minutes. No fears, no worries; just at peace with her dad.

Here are two pictures of her fast asleep on me.

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