Here we have a video of my second snake "Goldie" who has gotten so large that she needs a bigger space. She lives in a tent on my bed, and I have to sleep on the couch (until I find a suitable cage for her.
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I had planned to take her out and I brought the camera in the room to show how that is done. To my surprise, she had shed her skin, so that is in the video.
Just like dogs, we talk to our animals because they know our voice and our smell. Since snakes spend much of their time bundled up and hiding (in the video, she is under a towel keeping warm on my heated bed), so you do not want to just reach in and grab without the snake hearing you and recognizing you as their owner. They move slow and wake slow and for that reason, it is best to approach them slowly. they are extremely sensitive to heat and smells. They can tell you are in the room before you open the cage, or in this case tent. The worst way to approach her smelling like meat or an animal.
You will notice in the video, I pull her cover off and I am talking to her the whole time (the song "Stranglehold" plays but I added that later. Sometimes she slithers over to me with her head up and I am not sure if she is excited to come out and spend time with me or if she thinks I have brought food. Pythons are always hungry and will eat twice per day if allowed to. My Boa Constrictor is happy with one rat every six months. Goldie eats every two months and actively hunts for something to eat when she hits 5 weeks or so. In this video she has gone 4 weeks without food (four more to go). Even on week eight she is just as nice. Sometimes she rejects food at 8 weeks but that has only happened a few times.
You see in the video that she has just shed. She never used to shed in one piece until this year. Before that, she always shed in small pieces and her cage was a wreck. It looked like it had snowed in it. Now I have two full snakes skins from her. Snakes have skin on their eyes. Mine never minded me touching their eyes even.
close up of head portion of her shed skinI wanted you all to see the demeanor of the snakes, which is never shown in pictures. So I just took a video of how I get her out and bring her to my desk and sit with her which I do almost every day.
Both snakes are slow and tolerant of anything that comes at them once you have them around your neck. Most snakes change their mode once you pick them up. The trick, as I said above, is caution during the process of getting them out of their environment. After that, they already know how to do pet mode which finds them quite friendly and ready to ride on their human to see the world of foot walkers as opposed to @slitherin all over the place.
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More coming later.
Thanks for taking a look at my post and getting to know the personality of my pigment retarded python.