Funny old slugs....

[EyeLashViper]

:wink I have been thinking about what great pets Ball Pythons make...my two big babies are so calm and docile I have started calling them my pet slugs because I can sit them down somewhere and they just stay put ....maybe they might raise their heads up and flick their tongues out just checking the scene out....I have them on my computer desk right now as I am typing this...they seem to like the warmth of the CPU...they have been sitting here and keeping me company for the last hour...they dont even try to slither away. 8) in fact I think I will put Cypher in my lap and have him there for awhile....he is a good boy I think....and Ol' Trinity is just curled up on the computer...I really love my snakes...when I first bought them I was thinking of them in a kind of cold clinical sense like my tarantulas but I now think of them as beloved pets....they even have different personalities...Cyper tends to be more skittish and cautious and Trinity is so laid back it is ridiculous..and I think they know my smell too...I have read that the King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) can identify its keepers...maybe a Ball Python can too.... :wink: :lol:

EyeLashViper

[BallKingdom]

I actually got interested in ball pythons because I'd only ever been around colubrids. And they seemed so exotic and wild. So naturally I wanted one. My only experience with them at that point was a 5.5 female my big sis owned, and it was mean. So I had no idea what sweet hearts they were.

When I got Monty, he struck at my face when I brought him home. Then about a month into owning him my lil' sis was holding him, I was of course trying to take a nap. She, being too lazy to put him away, put him under my shirt and on my back. I intended to get up in a few minutes to put him back, but sadly driften off. I woke up 1.5-2 hours later, only to find him still in my shirt on my back, taking a pleasent snooze and stealing my heat. That was pretty amazing. I'll go about my morning rituals, getting ready, always with Monty around my neck. When I need to take him off I throw him on the bed and can come back 5 minutes later to find him sleeping in the blankets. I have unlimited trust in my ball pythons, it is amazing how docile and easy going they are. It's really cool to be able to watch a 2 hour movie with your bp coiled on your lap and not spend half the movie controlling it. I can't think of another snake, that is healthy, that can do that.

Amazing pets.

[Wizill]

i know exactly what you mean man. i think that's half the reason that i love my python more than any other snake i've had. he just seems to be happy, like he wants to hang around me. he never tries to get away unless we're sitting on the floor, in which case it's only because he loves to just stretch out and go. it's cute though, i let him wander around the living room a lot.