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And a shoutout to all the nonbelievers out there! lol


Yes, she is the same boa as in my profile pic. :D

What a cute snake!!!!! :D

Yeah. She's my smallest at the moment, which is ironic considering she's supposed to grow into my biggest in a few years, and she can grow twice the size of my newest one. She's got probably the best personality though, and is super calm. (provided she's being held right)

Rigby is a poof.

You really have beautiful animals

Lovely animals you've got there! Really like the photos you take of them as well! May I ask what camera you use?

Aw so cuteeeeeee

I wish I could get a snake but I cant feed a snake live food ;-;

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Another shot.


And, moments after...

Spoiler

My fault. Boa constrictors have a fear of falling, so you have to be careful to support their weight and make them feel comfortable. That, I wasn't particularly doing, and was more focused on getting her unlatched from the fake plant I was using as a prop. This happened one second after I said "I'm going to get bit." Haha, called it!

omg i just looked at the snake picture and wore 3d glasses and it was 3d :O

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Aw so cuteeeeeee

I wish I could get a snake but I cant feed a snake live food ;-;

I don't feed live food. You don't have to as most snakes (especially boa constrictors, corn snakes, and king snakes) will take pre-killed food gluttonously, even eating rodents that you can buy frozen and keep in your freezer until feeding day, which you'll then thaw it out with warm water. Only a few snakes are very picky to the point of which they may need live prey. This includes the ever popular ball python, which is what I pretty much only keep aside from that one boa constrictor. Even then, only one of my three ball pythons will only eat live, and that's only live mice. Once I get her appetite going with that, she'll eat a dead rat.

My newest pics!

Julias:








Nylah, AKA my best model:



























Kaa, who wouldn't hold still to save his life:

I initially overlooked this picture.


Also, got good pics of Kaa, finally:

I like their colors and looks, but for some reason I'm really scared of them.
I mean I know yours are harmless and inoffensive, but I couldn't touch a snake even if I wanted to. I have a strange fear that I could get bitten any momeny, doesn't matter if poisonous or not, I can't stand bites. And I heard a lot of stuff about boa constrictors and how they can squeeze people to death.
Don't call me a hater pls, I don't mean to be rude, it's just my personality, I was born a scared chicken o.x

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I like their colors and looks, but for some reason I'm really scared of them.
I mean I know yours are harmless and inoffensive, but I couldn't touch a snake even if I wanted to. I have a strange fear that I could get bitten any momeny, doesn't matter if poisonous or not, I can't stand bites. And I heard a lot of stuff about boa constrictors and how they can squeeze people to death.
Don't call me a hater pls, I don't mean to be rude, it's just my personality, I was born a scared chicken o.x

I perfectly understand, and I feel that way about tarantulas too. However, I can understand the snakes' language, so to speak. Specifically, I can read their body language very well, and because of that, I know how they feel, if they're about to bite, if they're comfortable, etc. which in essence makes them very predictable. In addition, I'm familiar with their personality. Boots is an utter cuddlebug and you'd have to be hard pressed to piss her off. She's never bit out of anger - ever. Kaa, on the other hand, is as good as feral and he hates everything. He doesn't try to bite though, and I haven't been bit (yet?) by him, but he does try to flee often, which he does by side-winding which is cool I suppose. When he's not uncomfortable though, he'll inspect things and he actually cocks his head. He also likes to climb more when free-roaming.
Julias has bit me before, and before she strikes, she'll actually twitch her jaw in a quivering manner. She'll also get a more tense look on her face while she aims her snout upward towards my hand/arm/object/etc. Every time she's bitten me or struck at me though, it was completely provoked by me.
It's super easy to tell when Nylah's upset - if she's uncomfortable with how you're handling her, she'll flail like she's batshit insane while she tries to get away. If you're restraining her even after that, she'll whip around at you and bite. That said, the general rule of thumb when holding her is to never grab her - let her hold onto you.
If you want a short, general piece of advice for snake handling, think of it as "being the tree." Never grab them; just let they lie in your hands, let them hold onto you, crawl on you, etc and when picking them up, scoop them up from the bottom and refrain from waving your hand in their face. This method works on even the grumpiest of snakes, provided they don't just whip around and flee first. (hence the problem with that method is that it has no restraint on them, allowing them to escape. This method, though, means it removes any reason for them to try to bite you)

A general rule is that snakes never want to pick a fight with anything they cannot eat, which includes humans. This would be a bad survival method as it is a waste of energy, and is very dangerous should they engage combat with an animal that could easily kill them (such as humans) and predators that want to eat them. As such, they have evolved to avoid conflict. Thus, if one bites you, it is either because you are restraining it/cornering it in a manner it feels its life is in danger and it cannot immediately escape or because you have rabbit/rat blood/pee on your skin and you therefor smell like food.
I'm not familiar with tarantula body language entirely though, and their legs/fangs give me the heebie-jeebies, which is odd because they fascinate me at the same time.


As for killer boa constrictors, that is mostly a myth. I don't know why boa constrictors got that reputation, when they are neither actual giants, nor do they ever kill people. The constricting snakes that the reputation belongs to, if anything, are the true giants who have killed people at least several times, such as Burmese pythons, rock pythons and reticulated pythons. They don't do it for no reason either - certainly even the largest snake cannot eat an adult human - and every case of a giant pet snake that killed a human, which I've personally analyzed, the scenario was easily avoidable and a human was ultimately the one at fault, as deaths are attributed to incorrect handling or unsafe feeding procedure. (when snakes smell food, they go in a predatory mode kind of like the shark from Nemo, and anything that is warm and moves while a prey item is being smelled nearby could be a target. This can turn out bad if someone is recklessly hand-feeding the snake like an idiot, and the snake misses when it strike.)

But in a typical and safe handling/interaction scenario, no nonvenomous snake is dangerous, regardless of size. A big snake bite can hurt - again, they'll bite for the reasons previously mentioned in the beginning of the post - but they won't attempt to kill you out of nowhere.


On another note, I've also figured out recently that bathing snakes with no-tear baby shampoo can make them feel very silky and oh so soft. I literally had one lady comment on how soft they felt the last time she was over. lol

My pictures were also featured on a reptile media page, which is why I edited the source lately to add a copyright so no one will steal them, since now they're so popular.

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Aw so cuteeeeeee

I wish I could get a snake but I cant feed a snake live food ;-;

I don't feed live food. You don't have to as most snakes (especially boa constrictors, corn snakes, and king snakes) will take pre-killed food gluttonously, even eating rodents that you can buy frozen and keep in your freezer until feeding day, which you'll then thaw it out with warm water. Only a few snakes are very picky to the point of which they may need live prey. This includes the ever popular ball python, which is what I pretty much only keep aside from that one boa constrictor. Even then, only one of my three ball pythons will only eat live, and that's only live mice. Once I get her appetite going with that, she'll eat a dead rat.

don't you have to kill it though
can you make a snake vegetarian