Just because you're female doesn't necessarily mean you need a smaller snake!I'm on the petite side (5'4") and other than getting a mini-workout lifting her fat butt out of her enclosure (she likes to become dead-weight when she doesn't want to move) I've never had any trouble with my BCI girl.
She's THE best behaved snake I've ever seen! She grew fast, but honestly, I never really noticed THAT much until I compared photos of her.
The day we brought her home in summer 2011:
And a year and 2-3 months later:
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