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I have a female about 1500 grams, and I was wondering if anyone's BP hiss at them during the breeding season? I have not introduced a male to her but she recently became a little grump. This normal?
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-Kyle
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Yes it is normal, I have a few doing it..I have one hissing so bad at me you would think shes cursing me...
Travis
Lair of Dragons
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LAIR OF DRAGONS

Most of my ball pythons hiss at me.

Imagine you're worried that everything that movies wants to eat you, and something A LOT bigger than you rips open your hide (be it a hide box, tub, tank whatever) and picks you up.

What would your response be?
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)

*moves
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)

I have a female that I was moving around this morning who never hisses, but was a little steam engine today. No other aggression, and once she "recognized" me she settled down just fine. I think I might have caught her asleep in her tub. It happens.
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Lincoln, NE
0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
2.1 Normals, 1.0 Thayeri, 0.1 Thayeri X Alterna, 0.1 Whitesided P. catenifer sayi, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

I actually have one that kind of head butted my hand last night?? She didn't open her mouth or anything but I think she was pissed that I didn't have a rat for her.

I was cleaning out her tub. But she is very food aggressive (meaning she snatches it off the tongs before I can even get it in her tub) A few of my snakes have taken to hissing at me lately too. Must be the breeding thing. I guess that is kind of a good thing.

Happy Breeding!!!!
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1.1 cinnamons, 1.1 pastels, .1 mojave, 1. spider, 1.1 super pastel, .3 normals, 1. lesser, .1 black pastel, .1 pinstripe .1 rosy boa, 1.1 gophers, 2.1 kids, 1. hubby and a bunch of other animals

I love those kinds Especially if, once they realize it is not feeding time, you can easily take them out of their tubs and handle them.
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Lincoln, NE
0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
2.1 Normals, 1.0 Thayeri, 0.1 Thayeri X Alterna, 0.1 Whitesided P. catenifer sayi, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

I don't have a mad female, but I have a big normal male (2071 grams)who is about 14 years old that looks like he's gone completly crazy this breding season.
I had him with a pastel female for some time and they mated a few times. I separated them and he went crazy, trashing his box and bucking up threatening to open the lid. I put him back with the female and he quieted down.
They had been mating practically every day since 2/9/11 until a couple of days ago when I separated them again. He escaped from his box (the lid has locks)overnight. I found him in the snake room and put him back in his box. I taped the lid to the box and he was still pushing up and trashing around. I had to move him out of the room and he finally calmed down...
Looks like overacting hormones from this old boy!
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