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Striking a pose
- Thread starter Alicia
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Kat
I'm talkin' to YOU.
Hehe, I've only ever seen one nice sunkissed, Alicia (and it's not either of mine). The two I own are snippy and high-strung. That having been said, I think I'm beginning to convince the male that I'm not a threat. So long as he doesn't see me pick him up (which means I have to cover his eyes with something as I do so) and I don't make fast movements, he's ok with being handled. He's definitely got some muscle mass to him, too... very solid. I wonder if other people have experienced the same physiology with their sunkisseds?
Now all I need to do is make friends with the female sunkissed... and she's far more high strung than he was at that age...
-Kat
Now all I need to do is make friends with the female sunkissed... and she's far more high strung than he was at that age...
-Kat
VinnyJ
Red Chin Eastern Indigo
Striking and hissing
I have a pair or Anerythristic (type A) corns that were not handled much in thier first year and a half. Both of them are very jumpy the female more than the male. The female has struck and hissed at me 4 times but I have yet to be bit. The more I handle them the more they calm down. I too have learned to pick them up without them seeing my hand coming and to stay out of the stike zone. Lol. I'm wondering though... if I did get bit what would it feel like. Can they break your skin? They're both about 3 ft long and average size. Anyone have experience getting bit by a corn snake this size?
I have a pair or Anerythristic (type A) corns that were not handled much in thier first year and a half. Both of them are very jumpy the female more than the male. The female has struck and hissed at me 4 times but I have yet to be bit. The more I handle them the more they calm down. I too have learned to pick them up without them seeing my hand coming and to stay out of the stike zone. Lol. I'm wondering though... if I did get bit what would it feel like. Can they break your skin? They're both about 3 ft long and average size. Anyone have experience getting bit by a corn snake this size?
Ronda
New member
I have raised three sunkist Okeetees to adulthood, and all three have quite an attitude. Interestingly, the parents of these three are regular Okeetees (het hypo) that have a normal corn snake temperament. Something about being homozygous for that hypo gene.... I find the nasty behavior kind of cute in hatchlings, but it gets less cute as they get bigger. Do yours musk? Mine do occasionally. Blech!
Taceas
USW = UB313
It always seems to be the prettiest ones..
..that are meaner than a striped-ass snake, sorry couldn't resist the pun. =P
Yes, they can break the skin. However it only feels like a mild cat scratch, it's the striking at you that scares you more than getting bit. I still manage to flinch, even though I've been bit multiple times.
Anyway, my Charcoal Ghost is ever so slowly calming down. I finally had to get Playtex dishwashing gloves in order to handle him initially. He doesn't seem to mind those. Big yellow hands are less threatening than my hands, I have yet to understand that. Maybe latex doesn't smell like a predator, who knows.
I've gotten to the point I'm treating him like a misbehaving dog. When he rattles his tail or tries to bite me on feeding day, as I take him from his viv to his feeding box, right back in the viv he goes and he gets skipped for feeding that week (not that it matters as he's a chubby snake). If he's good on the walk over, he gets a pinkie as dessert along with his hopper meal. Maybe it's just me, but I do think he somewhat understands. He doesn't rattle his tail or hiss at me nearly as much anymore. Every now and then if I move quickly, but he's starting to calm down.
Maybe it has something to do with the hypo gene. Most hypo corns (and hypo combinations) I've handled are cantankerous little buggers.
Here's a couple pics of him:
And yes, this is his usual posture =P
..that are meaner than a striped-ass snake, sorry couldn't resist the pun. =P
Yes, they can break the skin. However it only feels like a mild cat scratch, it's the striking at you that scares you more than getting bit. I still manage to flinch, even though I've been bit multiple times.
Anyway, my Charcoal Ghost is ever so slowly calming down. I finally had to get Playtex dishwashing gloves in order to handle him initially. He doesn't seem to mind those. Big yellow hands are less threatening than my hands, I have yet to understand that. Maybe latex doesn't smell like a predator, who knows.
I've gotten to the point I'm treating him like a misbehaving dog. When he rattles his tail or tries to bite me on feeding day, as I take him from his viv to his feeding box, right back in the viv he goes and he gets skipped for feeding that week (not that it matters as he's a chubby snake). If he's good on the walk over, he gets a pinkie as dessert along with his hopper meal. Maybe it's just me, but I do think he somewhat understands. He doesn't rattle his tail or hiss at me nearly as much anymore. Every now and then if I move quickly, but he's starting to calm down.
Maybe it has something to do with the hypo gene. Most hypo corns (and hypo combinations) I've handled are cantankerous little buggers.
Here's a couple pics of him:
And yes, this is his usual posture =P
Kat
I'm talkin' to YOU.
Well... if it's just a strike and release, it's like a bunch of pinpricks, bleeding included. It heals over quickly, though, and once the blood as stopped flowing, the bite marks are hard to spot. Got bit trying to give a recently purchased (at the time) rosy rat a soak to help him shed, and he did NOT appreciate it.
If they choose to hang on and gnaw a bit... well... someone else'll have to answer that half.
The only time I've been gnawed on by an adult was while wearing a glove, so I remained unscathed. (It was my male sunkissed that did this, of course...)
Hatchlings can draw blood too, but mostly if they catch you on the knuckles or someplace where the bloodvessels are close to the surface of the skin.
-Kat
If they choose to hang on and gnaw a bit... well... someone else'll have to answer that half.
The only time I've been gnawed on by an adult was while wearing a glove, so I remained unscathed. (It was my male sunkissed that did this, of course...)Hatchlings can draw blood too, but mostly if they catch you on the knuckles or someplace where the bloodvessels are close to the surface of the skin.
-Kat
CrazyCorn
D'oh
Well i have been gnawed on a couple times by adults but mostly hatchling around feeding time and man once thay get their teeth down in you it can hurt but not bad and yes you will bleed but what really hurts are BOIDS i own also too my corn colection a nasty little Kenyan sand boa and man can they hurt if the get ya good and then i have a 6ft BCI and i have been bitten 4 times once on the head and 3 times on the arm now THAT hurts! LOL it is too dangerous around feeding time!
cdp13075
New member
I had an amel female that I bought when she was about 4 feet. She never got handle before I got her and she was a pissy one. After biting me too many times and eating my candy cane that was in the same cage, I sold her.
My other snakes especially my male snow corn, have never gotten ill. Glacier, my snow, will wrap tighter around my arm everytime I try to put him up.
My ex's dad had a 9ft Boa that nailed me once. He didn't take good care of her. He gave her to some idiot who put her outside in the winter and she got really sick, So they bought her back and I took her away from him.
After treating her, she really hated me. As soon as I got close to her cage, she would hiss and make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
I found a good home for her b/c I don't do snakes that big.
My other snakes especially my male snow corn, have never gotten ill. Glacier, my snow, will wrap tighter around my arm everytime I try to put him up.
My ex's dad had a 9ft Boa that nailed me once. He didn't take good care of her. He gave her to some idiot who put her outside in the winter and she got really sick, So they bought her back and I took her away from him.
After treating her, she really hated me. As soon as I got close to her cage, she would hiss and make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
I found a good home for her b/c I don't do snakes that big.