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What are some cute things your corn does?

Awwwwwwwwwwwww! ^^^^^^^thems up there, they's so cute! Especially the one undressing in her hide! ;) Super-cute face there.

Ember's cute trick is: If he can get is head and one or two small coils into something (he's 4.5 feet), he's pretty sure he's invisible. :crazy02: His latest attempt: Hubby's eyeglass case. He just seems to forget there's another 3.5 feet of snake hanging out there. ;) Because if you touch what's hanging out, he jumps so high we practically have to peel him off the ceiling.

He also definitely prefers that I hold him (if he HAS to be held). If I give him to someone else he immediately turns around and tries to stretch his neck or do whatever acrobatics he can do to get back to me.

He also WILL NOT exit his hides if there is any light or TV or motion in the room. And then when he does, he gets a drink or poops, and then runs for his hide again. I see evidence of moving around/drinking (aspen drug into the water bowl), but never ever see him out of his hides except very rare occasions. No wonder he was a Children's Museum drop-out. He's a terrible display snake. I know he only comes out when we're alseep and the room is dark. And he never uses his warm hide. I could put him in a 10 gallon tank with a water bowl and his cool hide and he'd be happier than a pig in slop. I was going to get him a 33g long (another 12 inches long) but he uses like 8 square inches of his tank, plus the water bowl. And even in his hide, he's in the back 1/3 of it, all the time, every time! He's so funny. He'd probably be happy in a shoe box.
 
My little hypo lavender girl thinks she's a big tough mean snake. If she's in her cage and you peek at her when she's under her hide, she'll open her mouth at you. Terrifying little pink pencil snake! :rolleyes:

My granite male is extremely calm. I was expecting him to be active/curious like the girls, but he's quite content to settle down and fall asleep against my arm or in my hand. He'll start out stretched out, and then sloooooooooowly keep winding himself in until he's wound up in a ball, sound asleep. I'll sit there til my arm falls asleep because he's so cute and I don't want to disturb him. Guess we know who owns whom!
 
I just read this entire thread and loved all of it!

I am a new corn snake owner so I don't have a lot of hands-on experiences, but when my RO did this, I was in shock. I'm used to them going from hand to hand, slowly trying to find a way off my hands. This guy was very jumpy at first, but then balled up and hid from me in my hand! After I took this picture, he balled up even more. Later, he poked his head out and just stared at me. This same one also constricted my wrist like he was sizing it up, wondering if he could choke it to death. None of the others have done that.

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Wadjet will climb up and dangle over the thermometer and humidity meter on her Viv. It's cute when little hatchlings at Petco do it, and when an almost 4 foor long adult does it it's kind of like watching a teenager or a parent on a kiddy swing :). She has a branch to climb, but she seems to be a gymnast and like balancing on the smallest points.
 
I have photographic evidence of Targan (granite male) curling up and falling asleep on my hand! It's more adorable in person, but the picture gives a pretty good sense of it.

Also, when he's not dozing off on you, he enjoys moonlighting as a hair ornament.

Finally, little Nirah (hypo lavender) is trying to show how tall she is.
 

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So once again I was handling my baby today, and decided to dangle her over her water bowl and see what she would do. She hung down and actually started to drink! I felt bad because it was so hard to keep my hand steady, she would peel back a little from the water and then go at it again, sticking the tip of her nose in. She did it about 4 times, almost died of cuteness overload. Hoping that's a sign that she is getting comfortable with me.
 
Wallace!!!

He said "Look ma! Thanks for the new hide! I love it so much... this is how you use it, right?"
 

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We currently have Rapunzel's viv in a Jurassic Park theme. The other night I caught her curled up on her brontosaurus like she was riding it throughout her enclosure.
 
Clickslither said:
So once again I was handling my baby today, and decided to dangle her over her water bowl and see what she would do. She hung down and actually started to drink! I felt bad because it was so hard to keep my hand steady, she would peel back a little from the water and then go at it again, sticking the tip of her nose in. She did it about 4 times, almost died of cuteness overload. Hoping that's a sign that she is getting comfortable with me.
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lol. I remember once I was trying to move Snake into a different tub for feeding, left the mouse in there because I'm a moron.

Snake dropped her head down, grabbed the mouse and then tried to pull it back up onto my hand to eat. Had to wriggle them off my fingers before they started to chow down. Like hell i'm having my hand used as a plate... That and my fingers would probably stink of mouse after.
 
*Ember has a nightly routine I like to call "The Watering Hole". His viv is on my dresser, in front of the mirror. His hides are turned around to the back of the viv, and I can see the holes and some ways into the hides in the mirror's reflection. Every night about midnight he sticks his head out of his cold side viv (where he spends 99% of his time, even while digesting). About an inch, for 10 minutes. If he's convinced he's not being watched (he is being watched - LOL) he slowly slithers, out, slowly approaches his water bowl, takes a nice long drink and then slowly meanders to his warm hide, and slowly curls all the way inside, turns around and then sticks his head out of his warm hide, again about an inch. He sits there for about 10-15 minutes until he's convinced (again) that he's not being watched (he is!), and then he slowly slithers back to his cool hide. And I mean SLOW. Like snail slow. If at any point in time someone happens to walk by his viv and disturbs this process, he hauls tail for his cool viv, and the process has to start over again an hour or so later. Unless of course he's already on his way back to his cool viv and then he just hauls tail into his cool viv until the next night. I swear he goes so slow as to not make noise and not attract attention. He's SUCH a scaredy snake! Also, if I have him out of his viv, and I put him down on the bed or the ground, he does not want to explore or wander like Flame or Trinket. He turns and tries to climb me immediately. And if I hand him off to Hubby or one of the children - or heaven forbid a STRANGER - you've never seen such snake acrobatics as Ember trying to get back to me. He's definitely a one-woman snake! I think it's cute. When I was in California for 2 weeks, the rest of the family found it highly annoying. ;) He did not want anyone to hold him. Ember is also a hair seeker, and will happily get tangled up in my hair tie/pony tail and ride around on my head for an hour or two while I am doing things around the house. Once he was so tangled Hubby just had to cut the pony tail holder out of my hair to get Ember out. HEHE

*Trinket - 7 month old Snow - simply refuses to explore his viv in search of water. Every day we have to clean out his water bowl and physically dip his addled brain into the water, at which point he drinks and drinks because he is so thirsty. His bowl is not high or hard to reach, and he climbs his stupid coconut and goes in the top little holes instead of the DOOR, so I know he is capable of reaching/finding the water, but he refuses to. Not sure if that's cute or annoying, either!!!!!!!!!

*Flame's only trick is as soon as he's done digesting, he lies around out in the open hoping for a mouse to run by. He'd eat every day of the week and twice on Sunday if we let him. He'd be as round as he is long if he was in the wild, I swear! ;) Trinket and Ember are hidey snakes but Flame lets it all hang out! Ember would turn to a skeleton before he'd lower himself to come out and look for food! Not sure about Trinket yet since he's so young and on a steady 7 day diet!

These slithery things do capture your heart PDQ! We've only had snakes for 5 months today, and it's hard to remember life without them!
 
Also, I forgot to say...............Ember thinks if he can get his head and one coil inside something, he's completely invisible! :D Snake magic!
 
You didn't take a pic of the snake riding the dinosaur? I wanna see that! Or at least the Jurrasic Park viv!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D Sounds totally legit!
 
I have a picture of the vivarium up in my Rapunzel's progression thread in the photo gallery Ember. It's not really much of a Jurrasic Park theme besides the one dinosaur in there but she does crawl over him quite a bit. He's got semi rough grooves on his back so I'm thinking he may become a new shedding rub.
 
When Pinky's doing something he's not supposed to, I always say, "No, Pinky!" and he responds to it by stopping whatever he wasn't supposed to do. I feel like he can understand me; it's amazing! I tell him to do things and he listens, like when I tell him to follow me, he follows. When he's lying still, I tell him to wiggle and he moves around. It's so cute.
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And as for Peppermint, she's always doing silly things, like posing for me on her branch or watching me prepare the pinkie mice for a feeding. So adorable!
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I don't know if you'd call it cute... but when I'm hanging out with Rufus and he he decides he has to poop he will try his best to get away from me to do his business. Afterwards he's happy to climb on me some more.
 
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