My friend and I aquired an eight year old male burm about a month ago. When we went to pick him up, I realized this was a more of a rescue case than I had thought. The owner had him in less than optimum circumstances, namely a 25 watt bulb and no UTH of any kind. His enclosure was probably at about 70 degrees, with very low humidity. He was having major shedding problems, and had the distinct wheeze of RI. I've kept a number of different snakes in my day, none over the six foot mark, and have delt with these and other problems before, so I wasn't too concerned about them. We got him home, and went about getting his heat and humidity up to par. Now a month later, and he has had a perfect shed and no sign of RI. His scales from his bad nose rub are still healing, but he looks 100% better than when we got him. I only have one question: he has been extremely docile every time he is handled, but yesterday I brought him into a room he'd never seen in the apt., and he seemed to get a little agitated. Any time something moved, he would breath out loudly (not from RI), the tip of his tail would wag, and he S'ed back as if to strike. I've never seem him act like this before, and was wondering if that is normal burm behavior when they feel theatened. Any info would be much appreciated.

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