Hi,

I got my boa constrictor for my 17th birthday after much research and planning. She was very young when I got her, and I made sure not to underfeed her (I've had a previous ball python that was pretty nasty, and attributed that to her being fed one mouse each week for a few years) and I held her every day so that she would not associate people with feedings.



About 6 months after having her (So she would be 7-8 months old), I guess she went through an extreme growth spurt because wanted to eat everything in sight. I moved her up a rat size and tried feeding her once every 5 days instead of every 7 days. I quickly changed her feeding schedule to one lg rat every 2 weeks, and she's been extremely aggressive for almost 6 months now, and it's very upsetting for me.



She's around5ft long, and I use a snake hook to remove her from the cage - once she's out of the cage she is calm as can be, but I have to mentally prepare myself before I handle her, so I don't hold her everyday, more like once a week. The really upsetting part is that everytime I walk past her cage, she strikes at me based only on her heat senses. I've googled this issue and not much seemed to come up on the topic. I'm hoping that she will grow out of this "stage" and calm down in the fall or winter at least - she just cracked her plexiglass cage door today.



Please help me if you can give any advice! And thank you for reading my post.

-Marie

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