Is it too early to get him out..?

[Sauzo]

OK!! Thank you! And the weird thing I thought, was that at first Geno was very sweet and calm.. now he's a grump.. would he be considered a happy snake? Like is this just a phase he'll go threw or is this how he'll aways be..? And ya, tbh I was looking for a social snake, and I know a ball python want the best choose for that but, I'd love just having him out and chilling as we watch TV or something thank you!

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Might just be a phase. My retic gets antisocial sometimes and will shove my hand away when I pet him or crawl away if I don't quit bugging him lol. Other times usually when I'm doing something he likes like cleaning up a steaming poop, he will actually come over and sit by me at the open door. They all have good days and bad days. You learn to read them after keeping them long enough. My BP will sometimes hiss at me loudly if I bug her when she is out getting enrichment lol. Never bites or anything, just does hissing and sometimes will do drive by hissing if I rub her back quickly as he is crawling by me lol.

[RickyNY]

sometimes will do drive by hissing

Haha Sauzo, I think you just coined a new phrase. I was laughing when I read it.

[Sauzo]

Haha Sauzo, I think you just coined a new phrase. I was laughing when I read it.

Lol awesome. Dottie is a character of a snake. When i got her, she was just a skinny little 90g worm who was so scared. Petsmart had her in a cage that was too cold with a spilled water bowl and were force feeding her mice as she didnt eat for almost a month with them. None of the workers wanted to deal with her as she bit them and the manager told me she bit her about 6 times.

I got her on a Black Friday half price deal of $200 and the manager said if i couldnt get her to eat or tame down in 2 weeks, i could return her. I brought her home and got in a proper setup and in 2 days she was eating anything that moved. She literally would stand up like a cobra and wait for a F/T mouse to be lowered down and she would grab it. She was eating every 3-5 days until 6 months old, then once a week. She's now a 1600ish gram 4.5' little monster lol.

Getting her tamed down was a much longer chore. She was always really head shy because i think of the forced feeding. And she always would hide. Now I've had almost 4 years and she is out pretty much every night exploring and if i leave the cage door open, she is quick to come out and hang down to the floor and go exploring lol. She is still head shy sometimes if you walk by her when she is sitting outside on the bed or couch but if you are holding her, you can most of the time pet her on the head now and she is usually fine with it.

Poor little girl had a rough start in life for sure as I'm sure Petsmart got her as a very young baby being she was 90g and about 12" when i got her and she had been there almost a month before i got her. Anyways, heres a pic of her now being lazy lol. She's kind of got the concept of a hide backwards as she has head kind of inside it but her body is outside lol.