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Harters
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 20/12/2011 : 12:36:35
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Hi guys,
About 6 days ago I took my recently purchased 7 month old Sinaloan milk snake home from uni. It was a 2 hour car ride and she seemed fine then I fed her that evening and it was all groovy. I went away for about 4 nights, come back and she's being riduclously aggresive. I've tried to handle her but she just freaks out and shoots for cover. I tried to feed her last night and she showed little interest then tried to engulf the mouse side on a few times and gave up.
Just tried to have another little play with her and she was striking at me. Not entirely sure what to do here as I'm a new snake owner but any of your wisdom would be warmly received.
Cheers,
Dan. |
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Gmac
TKS Grumpy Scots Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20/12/2011 : 13:06:05
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snake is in a new environment and it will know this by the smells. Let it settle for a few days no handling etc just change water when needs be.
Is typical milk behaviour being skittish like that, maybe have a check see if this one is due a shed. But just persevere make sure temps are all ok and let it settle into its new surroundings. |
9.6 Corns, 1.0 Bci, 2.1 Royals, 1.1 king snakes, 0.0.1 milksnake, 1.1 black rat snakes, 1.2 Beardies, 1.0 shovelface
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Harters
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24/12/2011 : 00:42:22
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Back to normal now and planning on an Christmas day feed.
Thanks for the advice! |
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Constrictor
Snake Mite
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Posted - 06/01/2012 : 12:01:12
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Glad to hear that she's back now Harters, just in time for Christmas, it's was a Christmas miracle! ;)
So it turns out that snakes aren't exactly dromomaniacs then... (sorry that was just too good an opportunity for my word of the day! - http://www.thesouthendnews.com/dromomania-psychology-of-travel). That's quite a cute, healthy reaction though, being protective and a bit scared in her new environment.
I always find it interesting to see and hear about the same innate behaviour in humans as in animals: http://www.ehow.com/about_5335650_causes-aggression-dementia-patients.html
Sorry for the random rambling...that does tend to happen, particularly on a Friday!
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Odd behaviour?
