Quote Originally Posted by siwueofk View Post
That's fair, but the other 2 hatchlings I've dealt with were nervous but they weren't defensive/aggressive about it (i.e. striking), they just hid their heads or tried to slither away quickly. This guy is striking, biting, peeing/pooping on me, etc.

Actually yesterday he first peed on me then pooped lol. It wasn't diarrhea.
Have patience. When I got my first BP he was extremely defensive. He would strike at the glass whenever people would enter the room. I ended up getting leather gloves (was nervous about a BP bite at the time lol) and he calmed down in around two weeks. You just need to work with the animal. They’re still wild animals and aren’t fully domesticated imo Idk if a reptile ever can be truly. Anywho... they need to be handled in order to get accustomed to it. I think when I got mine the breeder didn’t handle them and only opened the tubs to feed so the snake associated the enclosure opening with food. Although not all snakes are the same. All the other snakes I’ve gotten have been super chill even as babies. It definitely helps to give them some time to settle in too. Sometimes just letting them be for a bit calms them right down.


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