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Do woma's have reputations for being very confident and friendly snakes, or for being very shy and reclusive, yet still friendly?

I dont doubt they're great snakes, I'm just trying to understand their general behavior for things like being head shy, or just being a very timid snake easily freaked out with a flight response, or 'frady cats. I think you get my point. Thanks for your personal experience/input
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Tom

"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"

My experience has shown females to be more assertive, but not always. They are burrowing animals that react to touch (same with BlackHeads) much quicker than other pythons. My male is gentle, unless he smells food, then stand back.. I hatched a dozen out this year, and all are strikers that seldom actually bite. A couple of the babies are now approaching 100G in under 2 months, while some have yet to feed (2). All in all, they will calm down, and are usually rather docile animals.
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1.1 Blackheaded pythons
2.3 Woma
4.2 Aussie Olives
1.1 Timors
1.1 Bloods
1.1 Balls
2.2 IJ Carpets
1.0 Coastal Carpets
1.2 Macklotts
1.2 F2 Carpondros
2.0 Jungle Carpet
0.1 Carpondro
0.1 Jungle/Diamond cross
.1 Brazilian Rainbow boas
0.1 child, CB
0.1 wife, WC

"They are burrowing animals that react to touch"

That totally explains what I'm seeing with mine. It's about 2 years old around 3-4 ft and still seems really "touchy" when it's handled. Ok, I think I have better insight to the behavior of it now.
I find that if I want to ellicit a feeding strike, I have to drag the (prekilled) food along it's body, simulating some shared space in a burrow.
Otherwise I just drop the thawed food into the tank, come back an hour later and it's gone.

Thanks.

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Tom

"The more people I meet, the more I like my snakes"

At times they will "jerk" forward, like spasms... And don't get in their way when you have food. My female black head is about 9', and she'll come roaring out of the cage when she smells food.
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1.1 Blackheaded pythons
2.3 Woma
4.2 Aussie Olives
1.1 Timors
1.1 Bloods
1.1 Balls
2.2 IJ Carpets
1.0 Coastal Carpets
1.2 Macklotts
1.2 F2 Carpondros
2.0 Jungle Carpet
0.1 Carpondro
0.1 Jungle/Diamond cross
.1 Brazilian Rainbow boas
0.1 child, CB
0.1 wife, WC

Haha!

I've heard that, too.

Nokturnel Tom has a great woma story that has to do with an open woma enclosure, the smell of food and a snake room very tight on space!

//Todd

I would agree that they are very touch sensitive...They are known as gentle snakes...When I first got my male, he was as gentle as any ball python I've had...after going back and forth on his feeding habits...I'm certain he got confused and now hes a little more tricky...I use my snake stick to get him out of his cage...then I will just let him see that it's me and I can pick him right up and put him around my neck without any worry...But if I try to take him directly out of his cage, Im getting bit...I think it is probably my fault for changing up feeding habits too much.