A couple radixes.

[guidofatherof5]

Here are a couple of my radixes. This is Brownie, she's C/B and lives with the rest of her siblings. She's the only one with this color.



This is Big Girl, daughter of the late great BigBig. She always comes out and greets me whether I'm feeding or not. She likes getting out and hanging around with me. She doesn't like my daughter Gabby and will bite at her if she touches her. The photos don't do her justice. On her sides she has this beautiful yellow/green color that glows. Brownie is her sister.

[Jack Neary]

Here are a couple of my radixes. This is Brownie, she's C/B and lives with the rest of her siblings. She's the only one with this color.



This is Big Girl, daughter of the late great BigBig. She always comes out and greets me whether I'm feeding or not. She likes getting out and hanging around with me. She doesn't like my daughter Gabby and will bite at her if she touches her. The photos don't do her justice. On her sides she has this beautiful yellow/green color that glows. Brownie is her sister.

Steve,
Love your all your Radix's!!!
Why do you think she trys to bite your daughter? Do you think our snakes get to know and trust us vs. maybe one of our kids?
Love to hear everyone's thoughts on this subject...
Regards,
Jack

[guidofatherof5]

I'm not sure why this occurs. Gabby is my partner in the T.radix Ranch and spend a lot of time with them also. If I have my hand in the enclosure and I'm touching Big Girl and Gabby reaches in she'll spin around and bite at her. While I've been touching Big Girl I'll have Gabby touch the same spot and I'll take my hand away in the hopes she'll be fooled and not know it's Gabby. This never works.
Gabby has never mistreated any snakes and loves them more than I do. This reaction is very strange as Big Girl won't take being touched by Gabby. If I'm holding her she will let me pass her off to Gabby but gets very active and only calms down if I take her back or she gets put away.
Very strange indeed.

[adamanteus]

There's no doubt that they recognise our individual scent. But it's strange that they can prefer one person over another.... and they do appear to.

[gregmonsta]

It's quite something ... I do know that they can shy away from some people for no apparent reason. I took Penelope to college last week to show the students ... some she would explore straight away and others would be refused and she would pull back to me.

[guidofatherof5]

There's no doubt that they recognise our individual scent. But it's strange that they can prefer one person over another.... and they do appear to.

I've got a few radixes here, maybe I smell like one. I can't imagine that, since I shower a couple times a month whether I need it or not and that's not counting getting rained on while catching worms.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

My snakes are rarely handled by anyone but me. I touch them all the time... even the meanest of my snakes calm down very quickly when being handled by me. But with most of them, if I pass one of them off to my brother, mom, or dad, or boyfriend... they will often become rather anxious and a boa even bit my mom once! Once i had Ra the king rat out in the yard and my brother was helping me manuever him. Upon getting a good whiff of my brother Ra was not having any part of him. My brother got hissed at, tail whipped, and struck at! I think it is a combination of possibly they are not as entirely comfortable and relaxed when handling them, and their strange scent may throw the snakes off a bit. They have been handled enough by me to know that I am not going to harm them. When I handle a snake, I just naturally know which areas of the body to support/touch and can quickly adjust that as the snake moves... and that takes expierience and time to learn how to do. I can see how maybe the awkwardness of being handled gently, but still in a manner the snake is not used to, combined with a strange scent, would make some of them rather uneasy.

[prattypus]

I haven't seen this behavior in mine. I wonder if I squish pinkie juice all over my hands, I will finally get bit.

[guidofatherof5]

I haven't seen this behavior in mine. I wonder if I squish pinkie juice all over my hands, I will finally get bit.

Swing on down to the T.radixes Ranch sometime. I'll put you in the ring with our girl Speckle. She'll hit you with some authority.
I'm thinking about training her. I'll take her out on patrol with me.
If someone runs I'll yell "stop or I'll turn my radix loose"
If I had a choice between A tazer or Speckle.......... I'll take the tazer

I got tazed once and liked it. They won't let me volunteer anymore at the trainings. They say I like it too much.

[gregmonsta]

Lol ... you're a freak of nature ... mind you ... I'd probably rather get tazed than be smacked by a police truncheon .... my dad still uses his when we go fishing ... ouch!!!