Boas are such awesome pets. My Guyana boa was hissy when I first unboxed him. 3 years later he is so chill and loves hanging out outside of his enclosure.
Well done Stephen. I been keeping boas and other herps and pets for about 30 years now. Your video was on point and earned you a new subscriber :) New reptile keepers can't help but have that fear response when a snake bites (or bluffs). Having taken enough bites, i can say that honestly most nonvenomous snakebites are nothing. they pale in comparison to the lovebites and playful claw marks my 3 cats leave on me nearly daily. Cats are playful and i won't declaw, what can i say. The best advice i can add is train yourselves to take a bite, as well as to read snake body language and learn how to handle them. Most tame down very easily. Even my male ATB tamed down a lot with size and gentle handling. i will free handle him, but i tend to wear 1 leather glove when getting his female future wife out , who is endlessly defensive, also with my false water cobra, whom is defensive until shes fully removed from her enclosure (then she is puppy dog tame).
Love Boa's, fantastic snakes. I always found the hissy ones where the ones that had a known pure bred legacy. The only other one that was hissy was a kind of rescue one. She was smaller than expected and missing an eye. When you walked passed the enclosure, there was always hissing and the odd strike. She was a superb mother and produced a lot of young, who weren't hissy at all.
Perfect timing for the video, I've got a ball python, she's about 6/7 months old she's never struck at me or nothing, however I got an 8 week old brizillian rainbow boa 2 weeks ago, I a took my first snake bite, it didn't hurt but was shocked with the speed, an didn't expect it so I pulled my hand back and she fall on to the poof, she was fine but only had her out once for 5 minutes since, she's fine when she's on your hand, where I think I went wrong was the fact I was letting her slither around on the bed, I was grabbing her from the behind to stop her going off the bed, so I think thats what was scaring here. But hey we live and learn, thanks for the video
@travisahling8749 Boas are awesome and are definitely one of my favorites but Australia has many amazing species I’d love to work with to that we don’t have here. Thanks for commenting!
as stephen explained accurately....aggression means attacking just to be mean. snakes dont do this. any strike or bite from any snake is done because the snake is scared of us. imagine if there was giants on earth 1000 times the size of humans. it would scare me if such a giant tried to pick me up, maybe even after i determined their intentions. defensiveness is the nature of many living creatures. without it, us and many creatures would die at faster rates. the key is learning how to be less intimidating, and more clever and thoughtful, so that we might teach defensive pets that they are perfectly safe :)
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Little tan man did NOT want to play lol!
Boas are such awesome pets. My Guyana boa was hissy when I first unboxed him. 3 years later he is so chill and loves hanging out outside of his enclosure.
Well done Stephen. I been keeping boas and other herps and pets for about 30 years now. Your video was on point and earned you a new subscriber :)
New reptile keepers can't help but have that fear response when a snake bites (or bluffs). Having taken enough bites, i can say that honestly most nonvenomous snakebites are nothing. they pale in comparison to the lovebites and playful claw marks my 3 cats leave on me nearly daily. Cats are playful and i won't declaw, what can i say. The best advice i can add is train yourselves to take a bite, as well as to read snake body language and learn how to handle them. Most tame down very easily. Even my male ATB tamed down a lot with size and gentle handling. i will free handle him, but i tend to wear 1 leather glove when getting his female future wife out , who is endlessly defensive, also with my false water cobra, whom is defensive until shes fully removed from her enclosure (then she is puppy dog tame).
Thank you and well said!!
Extremely helpful video thank you😊❤
Glad it was helpful!
Love Boa's, fantastic snakes. I always found the hissy ones where the ones that had a known pure bred legacy. The only other one that was hissy was a kind of rescue one. She was smaller than expected and missing an eye. When you walked passed the enclosure, there was always hissing and the odd strike. She was a superb mother and produced a lot of young, who weren't hissy at all.
Great information bro and awesome boas
Thank You!!
Perfect timing for the video, I've got a ball python, she's about 6/7 months old she's never struck at me or nothing, however I got an 8 week old brizillian rainbow boa 2 weeks ago, I a took my first snake bite, it didn't hurt but was shocked with the speed, an didn't expect it so I pulled my hand back and she fall on to the poof, she was fine but only had her out once for 5 minutes since, she's fine when she's on your hand, where I think I went wrong was the fact I was letting her slither around on the bed, I was grabbing her from the behind to stop her going off the bed, so I think thats what was scaring here. But hey we live and learn, thanks for the video
Glad it was helpful! Good luck with your BRB.
@@Stephens_reptiles Just subscribe to your channel, thanks for the reply mate
Large breeders don't have time to condition so many snakes. All 5 that I've gotten through mail and a show are angels. Wonderful pets. No regrets here
That’s awesome man
Thank You!
I'd love to have a Boa. Unfortunately here in Australia we can only have native species.
just get you a gtp, it will pass for an emerald tree boa haha....yeah nah u got many lovely constrictors there, id be taming down a scrubbie i reckon
@mewho7903 I want a GTP but reptile licencing here means I have to waist 2 years to upgrade licence class to get one
@travisahling8749 Boas are awesome and are definitely one of my favorites but Australia has many amazing species I’d love to work with to that we don’t have here. Thanks for commenting!
Don’t worry boas get days like that I new to boa keeping I just leave it a day then it’s carm they get moody days just like we do
Mine gets like that when she in feed mode
maybe dont get an agressive snake
as stephen explained accurately....aggression means attacking just to be mean. snakes dont do this. any strike or bite from any snake is done because the snake is scared of us. imagine if there was giants on earth 1000 times the size of humans. it would scare me if such a giant tried to pick me up, maybe even after i determined their intentions. defensiveness is the nature of many living creatures. without it, us and many creatures would die at faster rates. the key is learning how to be less intimidating, and more clever and thoughtful, so that we might teach defensive pets that they are perfectly safe :)
@yssfbll thanks for sharing.
@mewho7903 Absolutely right!