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I breed Albino Burmese.As anyone who has ever bred them or had the pleasure of trying to handle one (until after several feedings and a few weeks working with an individual) knows,they are holy terrors...biting machines.

One of my good friends breeds every Burmese morph known to man,with the same mean,biting machines...with one exception:his granites.They,(and the hets for granite) are as gentle as baby Boas right off the bat.You can have twenty of them in a container and reach in to pick up a couple and not the first strike.They durn near smile at you when you take them out.What logical explanation could there be for this? They are that way from the get-go.

Well, all granites are necessarily very closely related, maybe the founder snake just happpened to have an inborn docile personality. I think that to a point snakes are born with their temperments, although it can certainly be modified with experience.