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[jmcrook]

I too have heard males tend to bite differently and twist during breeding season if/when they want a girlfriend. It's not a foody bite but an actual aggressive mating fighting bite i guess you would call it. No personal experience though.

And i too am glad i went the SD route. I love really large constrictors but more to just look at than to actually keep. I mean I probably would do fine but for me, its just not what i am looking for and if i found that out later in life, trying to rehome the snake or being stuck with something huge would be bad for it and I. I am happy with something around 11' max. If it means I have a small Johnson or arent in the cool crowd, so be it. I didnt like snakes to be cool. Heck i was out catching snakes, lizards, frogs and all other sorts of reptiles and amphibians as a 10 year old kid slogging through ponds with my net to catch tadpoles to watch them change into frogs and then releasing them. That was way before reptiles became the 'cool pets' for goths and all others and were featured in rock videos lol.

Same here. I was out catching everything scaly, crawling, slithering thing I could find since I was first able to walk. Definitely didn't do it to be cool. I was, and still am, into reptiles because they've always fascinated me.
And I totally relate to you with being happy with going the SD route. Huge snakes are absolutely amazing but it would be too much for me and unfair to the animal to be in that situation. Phyllis will likely be the largest snake I own for the foreseeable future and I'm quite alright with that.


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