Scary smart snake

[Salamander Rising]

I totally buy it. My girl is in a vision cage (sliding glass doors) and before I had a lock, she would jam herself in the track for the glass.... and start inching and inching her belly scales. She was not yet strong enough to move the glass, but I promptly ordered a lock. She has SO learned that the glass slides and was working out how to slide it. When I installed the lock, she spent two days running her tongue all around it. She knew it was going to be a foil in her plan.

I think they can figure out far more than we give them credit for.

Both of my Boas do that to their sliding doors.
I have locks on them too but they're the kind that allow just a little free-play in movement and those Boas "test" them every time I close their doors...."just in case".....LOL

They can't be really spooky sometimes, can't they?.....

[Salamander Rising]

Oh wow. What an impressive little critter. How clever!! x)

They always do surprise me.

My little albino rearranges her tank every four or five days, seemingly in response to temperature and light. In the morning hours when the sun begins to come in, she pushes her hide off of the heating pad and against her water bowl on the far side of the terrarium that's shaded, and then moves it back after sunset. It's really odd to watch. She slithers in and then just pushes it over.

OMG...that is so adorable!
She's got a mobile home!

[Salamander Rising]

Wow! I have never heard that one before. Not undoing one latch & heading for the second!

Next time I clean his house, I'm going to check it for a lock picking kit.

[Salamander Rising]

One of my albinos occasionally gets on my laptop and logs onto this forum and makes posts in my name. I'm thinking of getting her her own login.

[CherryPython]

Pretzels middle name isn't "houdini" for nothing... I have a wooden vivarium with sliding glass doors.
If I've been out anywhere, the last thing I do when I go out and the first thing I do when I return is to check Pretzels viv...Just a sort of OCD thing I do.

I checked the doors - Closed. I went out...
When I came home from shopping with my friend, I go upstairs, I check again.
One side is open...about four inches. Of course I panicked My Grandparents (who I live with) aren't going to deal well with "Erm, Pretzel's got out and I havent a clue where she is."
:S

But I checked inside the viv anyway and of course she was there, looking at me like "Yeahhh I opened the door, but can you close it now YOU'RE LETTING THE DRAUGHT IN!"

I didnt think anything of it, Nan said she might have knocked it when she went in there to get something. It's happened a few times since then, and so I watched one day when she was particularly active.
Nudge...Nudge...Nudge slide...Nudge slide. Oh yeah. Gap big enough to get out of. She now has a wedge because my vivarium doesn't have the kind of doors my local shop will stock locks for

Clever little mite.

[Salamander Rising]

Pretzels middle name isn't "houdini" for nothing... I have a wooden vivarium with sliding glass doors.
If I've been out anywhere, the last thing I do when I go out and the first thing I do when I return is to check Pretzels viv...Just a sort of OCD thing I do.

I checked the doors - Closed. I went out...
When I came home from shopping with my friend, I go upstairs, I check again.
One side is open...about four inches. Of course I panicked My Grandparents (who I live with) aren't going to deal well with "Erm, Pretzel's got out and I havent a clue where she is."
:S

But I checked inside the viv anyway and of course she was there, looking at me like "Yeahhh I opened the door, but can you close it now YOU'RE LETTING THE DRAUGHT IN!"

I didnt think anything of it, Nan said she might have knocked it when she went in there to get something. It's happened a few times since then, and so I watched one day when she was particularly active.
Nudge...Nudge...Nudge slide...Nudge slide. Oh yeah. Gap big enough to get out of. She now has a wedge because my vivarium doesn't have the kind of doors my local shop will stock locks for

Clever little mite.

[ExotixTowing]

Mental note, Keep the wife away from reading this post !!!!

[Mike41793]

I know everyone says snakes arent really smart and bps in particular are really dumb but i believe that there are different levels of intelligence among these snakes. Not every bp is the same. For example my cinny boy that i got recently is a nervous little fellow but once you get him out and hold him he calms down, but i still dont think he enjoys being out all that much.
My normal girl on the other hand, imo, is much smarter. I have her in a 41 qt tub and shes around 1300grams. I have a water dish in the front and a large piece of corkbark in the back for her to crawl under. So i come home one day and the whole tub is fogged up with condensation. Im like wth is goin on here? So then i slide out the tub and her hide is on the cold side and the water dish is over the flexwatt in the back. I look down and shes peeking out from under the hide and once i lift it off of her she looks up at me and starts coming right out of the tub to explore lol. I have absolutely no idea how she managed to switch it around like that without spilling very much water but somehow she did...?

[Salamander Rising]

Mental note, Keep the wife away from reading this post !!!!

Heh heh heh.

[Salamander Rising]

I know everyone says snakes arent really smart and bps in particular are really dumb but i believe that there are different levels of intelligence among these snakes. Not every bp is the same. For example my cinny boy that i got recently is a nervous little fellow but once you get him out and hold him he calms down, but i still dont think he enjoys being out all that much.
My normal girl on the other hand, imo, is much smarter. I have her in a 41 qt tub and shes around 1300grams. I have a water dish in the front and a large piece of corkbark in the back for her to crawl under. So i come home one day and the whole tub is fogged up with condensation. Im like wth is goin on here? So then i slide out the tub and her hide is on the cold side and the water dish is over the flexwatt in the back. I look down and shes peeking out from under the hide and once i lift it off of her she looks up at me and starts coming right out of the tub to explore lol. I have absolutely no idea how she managed to switch it around like that without spilling very much water but somehow she did...?

I'm sure you're familiar with Pavlov's experiments?

The snake has conditioned you to respond to her stimuli.

Congratulations.

You've been PWNED by a snake.



[as have I, many times]