bitchy snakes

[urd]

i know most people like to have a nice tame snake and the tamer the snake when they buy it the better, but is there anyone here that thinks feisty snakes are more fun?

i just got a new female corn and i swear she thinks she is a rattlesnake or something! lol. i still handle her and she is slowly carming down but i now i think that the crazier the snake when young, the more challenging and fun it is to tame them up. anyone ever thought this?:joker:

[lakeridgekennel]

I have the same thing with one of my baby female boas she is nuts will strike at anything or if i walk by her cage she will strike at me and hiss and anything else she can do to bite me i try to handle her but she is a tuff nut to crack. Give it time and remember to put her down on your turms or else she will think she won and will keep doing it.

Just my 2 cents

[marisa]

haha I have the fiesty of all fiesty small colubrids. My male Mexican Black kingsnake. He will strike at fingers on the outside of his cage, movement walking by his cage, he strikes himself, eats his own tail, goes into a feeding frenzy RAGE, and if he does get lucky and grabs a human part, he doesn't let go. He chews and chews and maybe 15 minutes later will finally release. He has self inflicted scars all over. We keep 75% of his cage covered at all times to reduce his aggresion. Although this barely works.

His attitude is what makes me love him though! :)

Marisa

[Auskan]

I agree that feisty snakes are fun. When I was looking at some snakes in a pet store once (didn't buy any, just looking :)) there was one corn that was segregated from the rest and on his critter keeper was a warning sign "careful - I bite". Well, guess which one I went for first? I have a couple of corns that will rattle their tail if they're startled by me entering their enclosure and it always makes me smile.

[Leviathan]

For the most part I find that the crazy snakes eat better too! My smallest male woma is a real nut job (well they all Were, they grow out of it) he strikes at almost anything, but he eats like a machine as well and he's growing quite fast. Did I mention his name is Lucifer... lol!

[snakehunter]

WELL... I have a nut female western hog, she is growing out of it, but every now and then she gets a wild hair. I would rather have a crazy snake, that way i KNOW no one is going to mess with my herps while im not there!

Hey Marisa, wanna sell your nut case, seems like alot of fun.

[DataRipper]

i like bitchy snakes.. my tiger rat it kinda fun..:)

[Vanan]

I have E. carinata. That says enough about keeping bitchy snakes. :D

[SerpentLust]

I'm picking up a pair of Amazon Tree Boas....nuff said :D lol

[Invictus]

You guys don't know bitchy until you've been chased around the room by a psychotic Vietnamese Blue Beauty, LOL. Just ask Mark IsBell or TheRedDragon, hahaha

[TheRedDragon]

Yeah yeah yeah... :p

[anacondaman]

when i first got my yellow anaconda it was snappy but now she is a little angel...but the thing about fiesty snakes is they get stressed to easily and in some cases they musk.....and i dont care how crazy some ppl think i may be but id rather take a couple bites from my conda then get musked by her....and speaking of fiesty.......u should see my cuvier's dwarf caiman...its a little monster!!

[Vanan]

Invictus, we've had that happen with a blue beauty from Mark too! Hmmm.....

[Big_V]

Back in the old days when I worked at a pet store we had a fiesty jungle carpet. I loved him for it but man a 5 foot carpet lunging at your face every 5 seconds while handling him is scary. But thats the beauty of snakes, gotta love their varrying temperments.

[Scales Zoo]

wah wah wah, all you and your little 6 foot mean snakes.

I've seen Invictus run away from a Rubbermaid lid.

Try 20' and 200 lbs of makasar giant sulawesi retic. The name was boots, cause that snake came close to making many pairs of em.

Ryan

[Invictus]

Hey, that's not fair! There was a huge spider on that Rubbermaid lid! :P

[Meat Man]

I have E. carinata. That says enough about keeping bitchy snakes.



What's an E. cainata?

[Vanan]

Elaphe carinata aka Chinese King ratsnake aka Stinking Goddess.

[rwg]

As long as we're talking about colubrids, a little attitude makes things interesting. I've got a bull with just a little attitude. Not mean, just a little touchy sometimes. It means I have to read his language a little more than say my corn snake.

We're getting one or more baby bulls in a month or so when they hatch. :) I've been told that's going to be fun, and I'm looking forward to it.

As for large boids, I dont have any, and if they're mean, I dont want any.

rg

[Simon Sansom]

I agree - I like a snake with a bit of "spirit", not a "cage potato", LOL!

Cheers!

Simon R. Sansom

[urd]

lol

[Jonathan Crowe]

While we're on the subject . . . my female western hognose used to be a reliable crank, went into the usual stuff every time we took her out: hissing, mock striking, hooding. Quite the display.

So I'm giving a little talk to a Venturers group last year, and the subject is defensive strategies among snakes, and I think that this little hognose would be a perfect example. I can take her out and show her doing all the things I was talking about.

Except that she decided that <em>that</em> was the point at which she would suddenly tame down. Now she decides to be completely calm!

Oh well. So we pissed off a gopher snake instead. That wasn't hard, not with my breeder female.

[Vanan]

lol! Yea I've had that happen with a few snakes of mine too, Jonathan. Especially when I try to show how loud the hiss is on my pits. But there's always my (now Katt's) male black pine to save the day.

I agree with you, rwg. I prefer tame boids. Although I have to add that, having my 8ft male water python, out for his baths gave me a nice buzz of adrenaline! I mean this snake would squirt feces into the air! Not including the snapping of course.