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Moving Topic : Question - Bulls ?

Seliah Feb 08, 2005 09:18 PM

(Moving this to the proper forum now since I know where it is. :} )

>>I was going to answer this question in the bull/pine/gopher forum, but I didn't see it there, so I'll answer it here. In my experience, CB bulls tend to be very tame, docile snakes. Wild bulls on the other hand can be rather feisty. Of course, there are exceptions to every case, and this appears to be the case with yours. Both of my pituophis are docile snakes, but the gopher is rather nervous and zippy. My bull is much calmer, but she was much more zippy as a baby, and even as an adult she can really take off if something spooks her enough. But she calms down after a short while, unlike my gopher who never stops going and going and going until I put him away. Sounds like yours is a rather young one. Remember, the baby stage is a rather stressful time for many snakes. So yours should grow out of this behavior with age and careful handling. Best of luck and enjoy your bull. They are awesome snakes.

Well, his spunky attitude is what drew us to him in the first place. LOL I don't rightly know if he's CB or WB actually. When we got him he was absolutely tiny, couldn't have been much more than a hatchling, and the store we picked him up at recieved him in trade from another pet hobbyist, and that's as far as we can trace him, we don't know who the previous owner was.

He is young, definitely... hopefully I'll be able to get a more recent photo of him up, as I'd also like help identifying what TYPE of bull he is. I know he's an Albino, *possibly* bananna, but not sure ? Pythons are where I've been active until this little guy. LOL

The photo I DO have of him is about two years old, located here : (back when we were trying to identify if he was king or bull as he was sold to us as 'california king' and something about that label just seemed 'off' when I started looking at pictures of kings...anyway I'm digressing again)

http://gallery.kingsnake.com/data/42444Eltar.jpg
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1 Ball Python
1 Rock Python
1 Burmese Python
1 Bullsnake
4 Cats

Love 'em all ...

Replies (1)

jcherry Feb 16, 2005 10:03 AM

from the picture it is indeed an example of a typical albino California King Snake.

John Cherry
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