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01-29-14, 11:55 PM
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Re: Most Aggressive Snakes you've worked with
My AC checkered is mine...she was never an issue till she went off feed in November...I switched her to fish, and she was still fine..now she is back on mice and tries to strike everything that moves near her cage...lol...but still handles fine once I pick her up...
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01-30-14, 09:02 AM
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Re: Most Aggressive Snakes you've worked with
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Originally Posted by IW17
Wondering what species in particular you've worked with in the past that you would consider Aggressive or defensive. Not necessarily one animal , but a species in particular that keeps you on your toes.
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Let's simplify.....
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02-27-14, 08:24 AM
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Re: Most Aggressive Snakes you've worked with
Yellow anaconda. Beautiful and they strike faster than holy hell. Plus they can strike from the side (90 degree angle) so they don't have to be looking at you when they strike you. Out of all the pythons and boa species I've personally worked with, I've never seen one strike so fast and so unexpectedly as a Yellow. Really impressive. Have taken several bites before trying to "tame her down". They will eventually get used to you, but it's a very slow, laborious process. Expect many bites along the way.
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02-27-14, 10:31 AM
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Re: Most Aggressive Snakes you've worked with
That's one species I would love to work with in the future. Unfortunately with the lacey act Idk if I ever will. I need to find one for sale in Ohio.
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02-27-14, 12:38 PM
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Re: Most Aggressive Snakes you've worked with
I have had a really mean male GTP manokwari he was a bitch struck his window every time u passed and if u took him out he would go straight for your face also had a baby anaconda mean little bugger I tell u 
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02-27-14, 03:23 PM
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Re: Most Aggressive Snakes you've worked with
Here is a surprising one for you guys. My male Dumeril's is a complete pain in the ***. He has always been a little tenacious but within the last two years he has really grown to be a handful. He isn't so bad inside the cage with striking or anything but as soon as I open the front door he is immediately all up in my face. He does this weird thing where he puts the middle of his body against the side of the cage rears back and strikes. Almost like he is getting leverage. He has only gotten me once but it was truly one of the worst bites I have taken.
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02-27-14, 03:58 PM
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Re: Most Aggressive Snakes you've worked with
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Originally Posted by Mikoh4792
I think many carpets are defensive as babies. For my carpets that I've gotten as hatchlings, all but one has tried nipping me at one point or another. But they've all calmed down.
Both my cay caulker yearlings have been hissy and bitey in the beginning, but have also calmed down.
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I always heard that lol, but I got lucky with mine I guess. I got him as a hatchling but he's never even struck at me and i hold him daily (except before + after feeding).
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03-02-14, 05:39 AM
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Re: Most Aggressive Snakes you've worked with
I have a texas rat intergrade who will launch himself at people.  He's done it 3 times so now I don't let other people near him while I have him out. He's not too bad with me, as long as I listen to him when he tells me he wants to be left alone he'll just do his thing, even if I'm cleaning a spot right next to him. Only time he's gone after me when I opened the door was when I had a friend in the room who wanted to watch the snakes feed.
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03-02-14, 08:33 AM
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Re: Most Aggressive Snakes you've worked with
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Originally Posted by CosmicOwl
I've lived in Florida my entire life, and I don't see the appeal of keeping a black racer. I've never caught one that didn't try to bite me repeatedly. You guys must be masochists lol.
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Actually, the appeal to me is that this species of snake always seems to be thinking, analyzing.. at the peak of alert and aware.
Mine sits there and watches what is going on in the room, and I like black snakes.
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03-02-14, 10:11 AM
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Re: Most Aggressive Snakes you've worked with
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Originally Posted by infernalis
Actually, the appeal to me is that this species of snake always seems to be thinking, analyzing.. at the peak of alert and aware.
Mine sits there and watches what is going on in the room, and I like black snakes.
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My two Black Racers were very aggressive when I got them, now I can reach in and pick them up slow and carefully and they will not try to bite me. I also have a fondness for black snakes. To many people miss the beauty of keeping some of the less popular snakes, like Racers and Garters.
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03-02-14, 10:26 AM
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Re: Most Aggressive Snakes you've worked with
Western Diamonback Rattlesnakes..... snappy bastards.
Rob
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03-02-14, 06:27 PM
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Re: Most Aggressive Snakes you've worked with
These posts are great. I ask this because I myself haven't found any species to be particularly Aggressive. Even the few wild caught ones I've kept or caught always seem to calm down once they realize there not in danger and I'm not trying to eat them. This is the thing that so many people just can't see about Snakes. If only John Q public would be more willing to look at things from a honest educated perspective.
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03-03-14, 04:22 AM
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Re: Most Aggressive Snakes you've worked with
White Lip python [wc sub-adult]..crazy!
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03-11-14, 09:22 AM
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Re: Most Aggressive Snakes you've worked with
I can testify to WLP and Yellow Anaconda. But for me it would have to been the two male Malaysian Red Blood Python's i had. The one was always trying to escape. One day he jumped out of my hand and chase my buddy around the snake room before i could grab him. The other would strike at anything and they both got worse with age. One cleaning session i took 7 bite and 5 near misses. A couple were almost in the face he was just plain insane.
On a side note with Red Bloods it seem to be a male thing as female tend to be a lot mellower or will at least settle down with time. Everyone i ever talked to with Red's say the same thing about males.
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03-11-14, 12:16 PM
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Re: Most Aggressive Snakes you've worked with
I'd say mine would either be my texas rat or a boa I rescued a few weeks back.
My rat snake will strike constantly, when I got him, everyone in the store was terrified of him but I was able to get him out without gloves with no problem. Once he settled in at home though, he became strikey again but I like him that way. He's my challenge.
The boa is another. The guy that we rescued her from was keeping her in a tank without water most days, with pine rodent bedding, not much heat, and was terrified of her. She was only eating mice (at 4 feet!) so being hungry probably didn't help. I took her out and he watched me shocked. As I walked out with her, she tried to strike multiple times at my boyfriend who was carrying the tank in front of me but I was handling her well enough so she couldn't get him. Now she watches me and sometime strikes whenever I'm around her tank but she's gotten a lot better! She's going to a great home on Friday with someone who works with large snakes, as I never had the space to keep a second boa.
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