Question for long time python keepers.
Yesterday my Spotted python bit me;nothing new about snake bites but this was weird!
I was handling her and for some reason she slowly opened her mouth and deliberately bit me.
This wasn't a feeding bite and it wasn't a defensive bite,it wasn't feed day and she wasn't in shed.She is a bit weird in that sometimes while handling she randomly snaps at open air,never at me.I have had her about 1 year and never been bitten before.I also have had a couple of pygmy banded pythons for a couple of years with no dramas.
The only time I have seen this behaviour before was when 1 of my son's (male)stimmies did the same thing to another stimmie (who we thought was female but wasn't)
Any thoughts on this?
Yesterday my Spotted python bit me;nothing new about snake bites but this was weird!
I was handling her and for some reason she slowly opened her mouth and deliberately bit me.
This wasn't a feeding bite and it wasn't a defensive bite,it wasn't feed day and she wasn't in shed.She is a bit weird in that sometimes while handling she randomly snaps at open air,never at me.I have had her about 1 year and never been bitten before.I also have had a couple of pygmy banded pythons for a couple of years with no dramas.
The only time I have seen this behaviour before was when 1 of my son's (male)stimmies did the same thing to another stimmie (who we thought was female but wasn't)
Any thoughts on this?