Ball python twitching when I touch him

[MarkL1561]

The third video is when I was really starting to worry, he had started doing his twitching and jerking, off camera of course. He was moving really fast like he wanted to get away from the pain or something. At this point I was only petting him very softly as I didn't want to hurt him more if he was injured. Hope these videos help to determine what's wrong.

He’s not trying to get away from pain he’s probably trying to get away from you. To me he looked completely normal. Just looked like he wanted to be left alone which is typical of snakes. They don’t like handling they tolerate it. Some days they’re more tolerant than others, don’t take it personally. Almost all reptiles are like this. Be careful anthropomorphizing your animals, it’s easier to read them when you understand how their brains actually work. Certain behaviors might look similar to a humans but they’re not similar at all. Snakes don’t like massages, they ultimately want to be left alone to... well snake I guess haha


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