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2000 Okeetee- Horrible Personality

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CornsnakeKeeper

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This little okeetee lives up to her name, for sure. I named her Sassy before I even got to know her...I've raised her up from a 2000 hatchling. She is 2 this summer. She is pretty small compared to my other year 2000 babies, though. While taking these pictures...she repeatedly struck at my camera and me. While putting the screen lid back on, she even got a nip at my finger. Kind of saddens me that my only little girl is a pure old "witch", to put it nicely. LOL Does anyone else have a mean one like this? What are the cures? Frequent handling isn't the answer...she always was a nippy baby and I hold her as much as all of my others, but she is not very nice. Now, what would make me even want to hold her? Even when I go near the cage, she will bang her head off the glass trying to strike at me. Opinions on her are welcomed... She's a fairly attractive snake too!
 

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She is pretty and I like her name. I think with some they just never calm down. I have an 01 Hypo Okeetee named Pistol and she is a brat. She is always looking for a fight...LOL. As soon as you open her house up she pokes her head out and rattles her tail. She strikes as soon as your hand reaches in and her aim is always true.:D When your holding her she rattles her tail and strikes at anyone who comes near. Like your Sassy, we take Pistol out and handle her all the time. It hasn't seemed to make a diff. I wish I had the magic solution, because it's not going to be cute when she is bigger. We love her anyway
:D
 
Wow, what a good-looking little corn!! How big is she? She looks quite small for a two-year-old.
 
She is quite thing for a two year old, but she is around 3 feet. Yes, my other two year olds are bigger, but I guess this one has a faster metabolism. I can't stand her temper...I'm thinking of selling her. How much would an oketee like her sell for? She is capable of breeding.
 
What a shame she's so nasty! She's so pretty...
Luckily I haven't run into any nasty corns yet :)
 
LOL....
I have one of those too. I got 1.2 Milk Snake Phase from Rich and one fo the females.....wow......is she ever a bitter. Don't even have to put my hand in there and she bites instantly. I put my hand around the tub (her home) she bites the tub.....everything she sees is her enemy. She things that everything in the world is a harm to her. All the others bit at first but then calmed down very soon after. I too handle her a lot but she never stops. Even until today (had her since April) she is still doing that. I handle her every day (except after meals) and she is still like that....stupid little snake....but yet.....very very pretty. I like her no matter what.
 
Mine used to be the same(my family called her "Hitler")

I handled her and she became way better.

Now I will only buy hatchlings. (So they get used to you)
 
nasty female okeetees

My experience with formidable female snakes is that they obviously choose to act this way despite your best efforts to cull them of their most undesireable traits. What can you do? Well, first you must, as an owner come to the realization that your work in trying to pacify, and rectify any rift that might be between you and said snake, while not entirely without merit, has been undermined. The best you can possibly hope to accomplish is to become the beta personality type in the relationship. It is quite obvious she is not going to bend, or cower to your demands, so I suggest that after a proper feeding each week, you give her an ample amount of money and let her go shopping at her favorite mall. Have fun.:D
 
Vedica, great one..! You've got me laughing out loud! So I need to get my female Okeetee her own discover card, eh?

^CB
 
Re: nasty female okeetees

Vedica said:
My experience with formidable female snakes is that they obviously choose to act this way despite your best efforts to cull them of their most undesireable traits. What can you do? Well, first you must, as an owner come to the realization that your work in trying to pacify, and rectify any rift that might be between you and said snake, while not entirely without merit, has been undermined. The best you can possibly hope to accomplish is to become the beta personality type in the relationship. It is quite obvious she is not going to bend, or cower to your demands, so I suggest that after a proper feeding each week, you give her an ample amount of money and let her go shopping at her favorite mall. Have fun.:D
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LOL........that will be a problem in this family as I'm the one doing the shopping!!! Guess I'll just have to live at odds with Pistol;)
 
I have an Amel yearling who is sort of the same. Whenever I try to get him
out of the cage he trys striking at me but as soon as I have him in my hands
he becomes soooo calm. But I love the little guy anyway!! :)
 
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