Quote Originally Posted by WingedWolfPsion View Post
This isn't a useless exercise--there are trends in various species. Some species are more prone to docility, and some are more prone to aggressiveness. The exceptions don't make a scale pointless.
and i bet you that trend goes around the same line as the amount of CB vs WC. Hatchling temperment is discounted? now its defently based on how they were raised.

Quote Originally Posted by WingedWolfPsion View Post
I would put the GTPs and ETBs in the expert category because their environmental quirks are more important than how much help you might need to keep one. They aren't easy to keep, and you do need to know what you're doing.
I understand they can be tamed down if you work with them, just like other species--the problem is a hair trigger response to breath in their face (if you exhale on them, they may bite you in the face), and super long teeth that hurt really bad. Keeping those factors in mind would be important if you were going to handle one--keep the animal away from your face, even if it's tame. ^_^
you need to know what your doing with any snake. GTP are not hard to keep, their requirments are more specfic that other snakes, but they acheived easily. I have no idea where your getting your information from about gtps. am i allowed to link to other forums? i can give you a link to a forum just for gtps.

any snake can bite you in the face.... and i've never meet a gtp that had a response to bite if you breath on it, that already didn't want to bite you. heres a old video of my gtp. she was the snake i would give to my little cusins to play with because i know there was nothing they could do to make her bite.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v5...Picture012.flv

excuse the horrible video itself and the ugly dude in it, but i know a few more gtps that are the same way. and if you visit the gtp forum, you'll see as long as the snake just arn't kept to breed, there are way more tame GTPs than aggressive ones.

mayb you delt with a few aggressive gtps, but hell i've delt with a few aggressive corn snakes and alot of aggressive ball pythons. the most doctile snake species there is, i see the trend in snake behavior in how it was raised, not what kind it is. being CB vs WC seems to make a big difference also, because WC grew up in the wild obviously