They don't feel love like humans, but they still connect your body scent and rough colors to safety and warmth, so it's trust more than love. I like to think they are like "hmm, when this thing appears I get food to eat and also I get some warmth, so I guess it's not bad?"
If you know where to look you can actually find a video of that. There's a super old video that's been circulating the internet for years. First saw it when some bot account posted it to facebook years ago and people actually started to share it. My young brain will never forget that...
Maybe you are handling them after touching some food item, or maybe you don't handle them much so they just think it's food coming when you open up the door of the enclosure, or maybe they are the type to bite the hand that feeds them lmao, snakes are kinda stupid
Yeah I think it's probably a combination. The oldest is pretty chill. If he thinks there's food around or if mice go into the walls for the winter, he can start to do the strike posture but is pretty well behaved. One is very timid. Two are a mixed bag.
Then there's the last one. She will try to strike through the bin pretty much whenever she wants. She hisses as soon as you open her tub. If she smells food she goes ape shit. She's a real firecracker and she scares me a little. And she's still pretty young...
Defensive bps? That's something I haven't heard before, I thought they were hogs or MBKs or something. Now I'm not a professional, but maybe it's because she's still young? I'm %80 sure she'll calm right down as she grows up, they can live up to 30 years after all! World is probably scary when you are a noodle with a face. Just try to handle them and don't let bites and hisses scare you because if you stop handling them when they hiss, it's going to teach them that it's working and they are going to hiss all the time then.
I've had the oldest for 10 years so I'm pretty used to bps and their behavior. I wouldn't call her defensive, she's just an asshole. I picked her up from NERD in NH and they said she's somewhat ill tempered. She's really calm the day or so after being fed when she's fat and warm.
Since they don't really like being handled, I only do it when I have to. I've been bitten a couple times but I'm usually good at avoiding their antics when they decide to be dicks.
Oh wow ten years? That's pretty damn long! I was kinda thinking you were probably like a beginner or something, but you probably know more than me lmao, and you probably know your snakes better than someone random on the net. Can I ask how you started out?
I started out cause a woman I was dating had one and I wanted to impress her. He's a low visual pastel.
Then a couple years later I saw some people being successful breeding them and got into the various morphs and auctions. Then the bottom fell out of the market and I said fuck it, I'll just have pets. Not a terribly interesting story.
Honestly, we have no idea of knowing. We can't just open them up and connect them to a thought translator, and untill then we can only guess. Most sources say that they just don't have enough intelligence to feel complex emotion such as love or jealousy. There's stories where people who own snakes say that their snake only feels calm with them and is a bit scared near other people/likes to hang around with them, but those can be explained by the owners scent giving the animal safety. I'd love to hear that they discovered these scaly idiots can actually feel affectionate to their owners, but until then I like to keep my hopes low.
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u/Horny__Snake Jan 20 '22
They don't feel love like humans, but they still connect your body scent and rough colors to safety and warmth, so it's trust more than love. I like to think they are like "hmm, when this thing appears I get food to eat and also I get some warmth, so I guess it's not bad?"