lol yeah the hissing is just downright adorable. the 1st time my girl hissed at me i was surprised by it once i realized she was hissing but then laughed hard at how it looked.
first of all she was deep shed and was hiding in one of the hide boxes and i had to go in to spray the bark.
the second i started sliding the door open she inflated her body and let out a long loud hiss but in the process of doing that her rising body made the hide box rise up making her visible underneath it.

lucky for her she was in shed or i would've taken her out just for spite (to show her that hissing wont make me go away).
the next time she hissed at me she was not happy that i was trying to remove her from underneath my 9 yr old daughter's shirt. she had gone up the wrist opening, all the way through the sleeve and had found a nice warm cozy spot in my daughters armpit with most of her body still in the sleeve, lol. when i went to gently pull her out she inflated her body making it fit very tight in the sleeve. as i slowly tried to easy her body out her last ditch effort was to hook the tip of her tail on the hem at the bottom of the sleeve.

18 foot Burm


at her size, I left her there until she decided to come out on her own.
faced with something THAT big i'd leave her be too.