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Putting the snake in front of your face is a good way to see if a snake is "nippy" or not,.............if this results, you can be fairly certain that the snake is a bit "nippy"!

~Doug

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"Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open mouth and remove any doubt!"

Years ago, I was sitting in the lazyboy watching a movie with a snake hanging out around my neck. He was mellow and would just sit there for hours, just hanging out.
Well, it was a little dry in the house, and I got agot a bloody nose without knowing about it.
My first clue is that the snake tightened up around my neck, like 3 wraps tight.
My next clue is that he started doing the 'short tongue flicking' in my nose area.
I gotta tell ya, that's disconcerting. He was only a 5 foot cal-king, but I gotta tell ya, when he started tightening around my neck, I just wanted him in his cage, and right now.
I unwrapped him and he didn't put up a fight, but I wonder if it happened while I was sleeping if it would have gone too far before I could convince him it wasn't in his best interest.....

This is a small domesticated snake that had been handled a LOT.
Now if this was a WC boa...or burmese.....

How did you get that guy to stand still for that shot? Looks painful.

I knew a guy in college who had recently caught a large bull snake. It was handle-able (is that a word?), but not very tame. One day he was reaching in to its cage to remove it, and I was across the room with my back to him. All I heard was a loud hiss, and I turned around to see my friend with blood dripping off his nose and upper lip! The snake struck in fear, and I don't think my friend even saw it coming. Pretty funny.
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Kent

This is a well circulated photograph, not an original.

Someone should have told him that scrub pythons are face biters!
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