Quote Originally Posted by bcr229 View Post
That's interesting, my pure male must be an outlier. I would call him more "foody" than my other retics but once he knows he's not getting fed he's no more difficult to handle than any other six foot snake.
Not that they are aggressive, just flighty like a wilder king snake is or a rat snake that doesn't get handled often. The crosses help calm them some thanks to longer term domestication. Not saying that this is the case every single time, but it is just the case as it is with smaller snakes who have more fear, and snakes who are short term introduced into captivity without many generations if any from the wild.