Hey all, Following on in the spirit of the thread started by longgi "
Can you train snakes" ( by the way longgi that was an exceptional thread, as were the responses) what is the learned opinion or the actual experience from our members in relation to the capacity of snakes having a long term memory, not just feed reponses or location of things like basking shelves or hides, i was blown away by some of the responses that were given in the spirit of longgi's thread so i am hoping we can have the same sort of discusion on this matter. I bring this subject up not just for the hell of it but due to an experience i have recently witnessed, About 6 years ago my older nephew (for Rob's sake) had to get rid of his 6 year old
Diamond/Coastal intergrade as he was committed to working away and did not think it fair on the snake to just languish in it's enclosure for a week at a time so he sold it to a guy in Wellington NSW. So just recently he got a phone call from the guy he sold it too asking could my nephew again take ownership of the snake as the guy and his wife were about to have a baby and could not afford to have such a vicious snake around the baby, this confused my nephew as from a Hatchy this intergrade had been placid and well behaved, my nephew asked how long this behaviour had been going on and apparently it had been like it ever since he received it, it was not just vicious with him it was the same with everyone that went near it, so my nephew took it back no probs and from the moment he got it out of the shipping box it was almost like a little puppy wagging it's tail and bursting out of it's skin to be picked up by my nephew, he was a little reticent to start with because of what the guy had said and the intergrade now being nearlly 9ft he did not want to get tagged, but there was no tagging no hissing or sssing, it climbed around on him like a long lost friend and did all but lick his hand, this was not the only interesting thing about the situation ie when he had the snake for the first 6 years
it had a green marble water bowl but my nephew had it packed away somewhere so he was using a brand new stainless steel pet bowl the problem was it would not go anywhere near it, my nephew tried about 6 other bowls he had on hand but to no avail, finally he spent the next 3 hours going through all the stuff he had packed away and found the original marble water bowl and gave it a good clean, as soon as he put it in the enclosure the snake went straight to it and started drinking before my nephew had a chance to finish putting it in the enclosure, he rang the guy and asked had he seen Odin drinking from a bowl and the reply was she was in an aviary with a hollow in the cement floor for the water and the snake used to lay in it,