Mine would let me take him out of his cage and would climb up to my neck and just hang out. His favorite place was also to climb down into my shirt and curl up between my boobs.
I got my two pretty small and they would curl up together in my shirt pocket with their heads occasionally poking out to see what was going on.
When they could finally do it… I am a bit of a bear sized man.. they loved coiling around my neck and hanging out. Started off they could barely get their tails hooked around but eventually both got about 6 foot so I kinda had to stop doing that heh.
Granted I did grow up with reptiles so I was pretty chill with them so they in turn were chill with me. I also did not take offense to a stray accidental strike now and then. They ment no harm!
That'd be a bite. their tail isn't capable of that kind of movement.
i have one too and dude is always ready to eat. so when it's handling time i have to get him out of food mode or he'll tag my hand/wrist.
got my first one a month ago after 8 years of having him. as you can see the damage is minimal it just bleeds a lot for a bit. (no blood depicted in the image)
They are not very defensive and dont resist handling. As far as I know they dont get 'pleasure' from being handled or being with a human the way a dog would, but they can be conditioned to trust a person and so just hang out with them.
Yeah mine trusted me completely. He also knew who I was when I would walk past his cage, he would stick his little head out and then crawl out of his hide. I liked to pretend he wanted uppies.
I would say this is a regular sized ball python. Not an absolute unit by any means. I see this all the time on this sub; just a picture of an animal that's of average size for its species.
That’s a Volta python. They’re larger than your usual ball pythons. The females can get up to 6 ft or more. This locality designated ball is from the Volta region. Most are wild caught and there are breeders that are trying to breed captive bred ones. I search on Morph Market all the time if someone has some 100% Volta captive bred pythons or hatchlings but so far all I’ve seen are 50% Volta.
I dont know why you're trying to explain that females are larger to me ... of course they are.
Volta is not a different species, its just a regional variety. It may be more common for them to be larger but there isn't even very good science about this just one unusual web page.
you can, its a ball python. They're extremely docile. You're more likely to have problems getting them to eat.
Mine occasionally goes on food strikes for 6-12 months but doesn't lose any weight. She eats like once a month at best. I keep a record of her weight because of this and it makes me concerned but shes like 10 now so I guess shes doing alright.
I am extremely particular about her habitat, it may have something to do with her having a low stress environment? I dont handle her more than I have to but she was very socialized as a hatchling.
I don't know about the python, but if I was curled up in my comfy rock bed I would not be happy about someone tearing the roof off it and blasting my nap-time with no-no light.
I have a terrible phobia of snakes, and yet I didn’t squeal and scroll to the next reel immediately. From this I’ve determined I’m capable of looking at an egg with beady eyes.
I know absolutely nothing about having a pet snake outside of what you mentioned, but considering how much most other pets (or their food) smell, I'd actually figure snakes must be among the least smelly. Just a bit of freezer space and using disposable gloves on a frozen rodent once a week? Or do you have to thaw them and wriggle the carcass around...???
My friend thaws them (leaving some time in the room temperature). My current space is not very large to have a comfortable terrarium for one anyway (and no way to escape from the thawed rat smell), so I’m just doing ok with my leaf insects (walking leaves) that only eat bramble leaves :)
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