I have got a question, hopefully someone will have some answers!!



We have got a ball python...little guy that seems to REALLY NOT LIKE ME!! He strikes out at the glass at me, strikes out from my boyfriend's hand at me....pretty much just coils up and goes to town whenever I go by him. I have got 3 ball pythons of my own and they are just angels!!! Never had a lick of problems out of them at all. My first thought was his housing wasn't right. I made sure that the environment was perfect. Next is his health, which we are taking him into the vet in a couple of days for an overall checkup. But he is just really really not liking me. I put a shirt with my scent into the tank thinking that he might get a little more used to that, but no....he struck me. He is not eating yet and I am sure it has a lot to do with being stressed, but I am desperately trying to do anything to keep him from being stressed. I have left him alone and not handled him for two days now, but I don't want to NOT handle him. Taming him requires me to be able to work with him.



I guess my only other thought if he turns out to be healthy is that he might be cb, but with wild caught parents, and maybe he has still got the wild tendencies in him. I hold my others all the time and play with them. He gets "pissy" enough with me (for lack of a better term) that even when I hold him he is striking at my body. I have never had to "tame" a ball and I am wondering if anyone has any tricks of the trade for me in taming a possible wild caught or cb first generation. Any suggestions would be SOOOOOOO appreciated.

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