Haha yeah Caesar gets excited when anything goes on around his cage. He's in a stack with Vicky and Rosey so anytime a door opens or I walk in front of the cages, he is instantly poking his head out of a hide to see whats going on if not already sitting half out of his hide.
I guess I'm the lucky one out of us 3. Caesar has not pissed on me yet. I did play Russian roulette though and had him out with sausage butt but he held it in. That night though I found a huge turd in the corner. He is pretty good as he goes poop and pee on the cool side back corner only so its easy to find his stuff.
And I too try and interact with Caesar as well as everyone every couple days at least. Usually its daily as I try and change everyones water daily.
I personally think the mainland blood in Gio and mine help to mellow them out. Like I've said, with Caesar, he's only gone into hardcore explorer mode twice. Otherwise, he is pretty content to sit on me and just stretch out to look at stuff. He seems to love when I cross my arms on my chest and he will just do an oval coil on me and sit there lol.
Retics are easily one of my favorites now. If/when they ever make pied SD retics, i'm going to have to sell a kidney for one
As far as experience, mine is pretty unconventional. I pretty much just treat all my snakes the same and they all act pretty much the same. They are all mellow loungers except Allison who like I said, I think whoever had her as a baby did something to her to make her so defensive but she is calming down a lot. I'm not really hip on all the technical stuff with them. I pretty much off what works for me and them. But thanks for thinking I have the upper hand
And I agree, I think snakes sense when you are unsure and that makes them unsure. When I got Caesar, I was worried about getting bit so he was kind of questioning me when I went to take him out. After a couple weeks, I was more confident and now with him, i just rub his head with the paper towel if he is excited or just reach in to his side and slide him out from underneath. Seems to work with everyone actually except Allison who i do come in low and slow but i'm still worried about getting bit by her haha.
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