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Originally Posted by Lefitte
I loove her dark eyes in that bright head. So pretty! I bet she's spectacular in person.
As for bitey, that's their reputation but after being in groups for snakes I have to say that I see a whole lot more talk about kings biting and doing damage than I do BRBs [especially when you're talking adults, seems like all baby snakes are bitey haha]. I've had my BRB for around 9 months and today was only the third time he's tried to strike me and he's only tagged me once [which was so small that I could barely find the holes and wasn't entirely sure what even happened at first]. First time was during the first two weeks and he was very hungry, he went for my face. Not fun. Both the second and third time involved him being released and 'recaptured' which seems to be a pretty common time for BRB bites. Apparently his father is still the same way when it comes to being recaptured haha. Otherwise, my boy is sweet as a puppy. I can boop his nose, pet the top of his head, underside of his chin, walk around and gesture in conversation with him wrapped around my arm. I've taken him out in public and allowed people to touch him [mostly coworkers and snake-loving people] and he was cool with that too. I think it depends a lot on their attitudes and how much they're worked with. I was looking for a more docile baby in the hopes that with regular gentle handling that he would stay like that and it's worked out so far.
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She is! The lighting was quite good for her colors that day, so these are almost identical to her real-life appearance.
Yeah, my oldest BRB (who will be 2 in August), has never been bitey. He's only bitten me once, when I unboxed him. Maybe twice, but I'm not sure the second time was a bite. I had his head to check his mouth a few weeks after my heater failed and the room was 54F for a good 8 hours, to check for signs of RI, and he started whipping around and turned his head and scraped his teeth against my finger. It didn't seem like a bite, but maybe it was just a really clumsy bite.
Homura has yet to bite me, but she's struck out in surprise twice. She's very docile, but has a really really sensitive head. Even just crawling over my hand and accidentally brushing her own head against one of my fingers causes her to violently recoil multiple times.
I've yet to be bitten by Homura or Nymeria, but Nymeria is the only one who hasn't so much as struck at me. All the others have bitten me at least once. haha (Draco I'm not too sure about, I don't remember him biting me but he probably has.)
Morzan is the only snake I've had that strikes out in defense rather than just utter surprise or irritation. I try to handle him less than the others because of his sensitive stomach, but I'm hoping to take him out again soon to work with him. The last handling session went quite well, so we'll see how it goes next time.
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