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hehe, this is my new reticulated python! Isn't she cute! ^^
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Call her "citer", following your reverse-letter naming theme for characters ;p
I used to have a pair of retics... when the big girl got to 4 meters, I found her a new home, since she didn't like to be handled much, and was making waste by the liter. She'd go through a bunny a week!
http://www.yiffing.org/jpeg_images/.....supermeal2.jpg
I used to have a pair of retics... when the big girl got to 4 meters, I found her a new home, since she didn't like to be handled much, and was making waste by the liter. She'd go through a bunny a week!
http://www.yiffing.org/jpeg_images/.....supermeal2.jpg
Indeed, that's my main reason for preferring Burmese pythons (tiger pythons). They get HUGE, but also enjoy/tolerate a LOT of handling. A true gentle giant. Retics *can* be amazing, but about 4 in 5 have some personality issues that make handling alone unsafe, and so far in my life, I have yet to live with anyone who really enjoys reptiles as much as I do. Burmese, no problem - unless you've been drinking too much and do something stupid. But otherwise, an expert Burmese handler can do everything solo with very little risk.
Matilda, the retic in that photo, was not ever "scary" (most tiger retics are not), however, she'd be stone still, then half an hour in to a relaxing sit on the sofa, she'd empty her bowels, and make a break for it, 10x speed. I like pythons I can handle and not have to worry about a huge mess. Scared shitless is no fun ;)
Matilda, the retic in that photo, was not ever "scary" (most tiger retics are not), however, she'd be stone still, then half an hour in to a relaxing sit on the sofa, she'd empty her bowels, and make a break for it, 10x speed. I like pythons I can handle and not have to worry about a huge mess. Scared shitless is no fun ;)
ah, you see, we don't have wild Burmese pythons here in the Philippines, but we do have wild retics that usually wander off to our home, and I usually keep them since we have a large forested area in our land. Local government also releases exotic creatures in our home but I haven't seen a retic being reported yet. The little one is just fine, already responding to different stimulus I repeatedly incorporate with my presence such as two taps on the head. When I do that, she knows and will act considerably different when I just directly handle her without those two taps. However, Kaa, the larger one, wasn't trained like that when he was small
fascinating, I did not realize your pythons were all wild caught! Kudos - that is far more challenging, since much of their formative behavior is developed when they are hatchlings. Behavior which is useful as they attempt to survive the first few fragile months of their lives, makes them more likely to be defensive and/or aggressive as adults, than captive bred specimens who did not experience those difficulties.
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