Do ball pythons have bad days?

[siwueofk]

Cool, we need more people in medicine, all areas. & I was only teasing, not TMI for me either, just remember we have all ages here, "family forum".

I can remember when my BCI was young (about 1.5 years old) she went thru a "phase" for a couple months...like "hormonal"? Who knows, maybe that's part of it too? Don't assume that your young snake will always stay the same personality. You can usually make a BIG difference...I've seen it for myself, many times. No better example than that BCI- got her as a nasty biter, a yearling that changed hands multiple times with others giving up & not wanting her. Within about 2 months with me, she stopped trying to bite, because she finally understood she was safe with me- there are methods. In all the years she was mine, I never got one bite from her, & she was "face-tame"(meaning I could touch faces with her, no problem ever). So no one can tell me that snakes can't learn, or that they can't overcome their instinctive fear. You just need patience & empathy. And sometimes the "tough cases" are just that much more rewarding, when you can finally "get through to them".

perhaps if we talked about things more often that are a natural normal biological occurrence, it wouldn’t need to be such a touchy subject?????

Anyway, yeah I’ve been very patient and working with him but he still has maintained his underlying timidness, and I just hope that it will eventually go away. Every time he hissed at me, I feel so bad. He was a real jerk today.