Well we only got him just before xmas - but he wasn't a baby, he's over a year old and (we're guessing) unused to a lot of handling.

Occasionally he's OK but mostly he's jumpy and acts like a psycho snake (jekyll & hyde personality definitely). Last time we got him out he bit on immediately and did not calm down at all when he was out out - he stayed in the s-attack position and kept lunging all over the place trying to get at me. As he's not a baby is he likely to calm down? I spoke to the shop and they said we could swap him for a baby Children's, so I'm unsure whether to go for the baby (he's about 5 months) or continue with Psycho in the hope that he will calm down. He's my daughter's really and she doesn't even want to touch him now.

I bought my boa as a (relatively) unhandled year old snake and she is so calm.