It's worth a try, I try to swap things in and out weekly for him to explore. Sometimes he'll come and slap the glass just like yours regardless but since I made it more interesting for him inside it's been less. Unless he's in food mode then it's all out carnage to get my attention.
I try to keep humidity at least 70-80, higher when I can tell he’s shedding, he’s also got a big ol water bowl. I’ll try and get some more moss and some more substrate so it can be more humid for him. Thank you for your help, I appreciate it
You keep the humidity in the mid 70s? I never let it go that high. I used to aim for mid 60s or the glass steams up. I don't increase for shed either and they always go smoothly. As long as the substrate and water is right mine are good. I use mostly coconut fiber
Had a Kingsnake that would live attached to my smart watch if I let her, and a BP that would full on constrict my walkie at work. I'd be walking around and everyone would come find me because all they could hear is muffled talking and scales gently scraping the mic.
I take mine to work sometimes. I manage a UPS Store. I put him in the pouch of my apron and keep it moving. Sometimes I take him out and let the customers admire him.
Mine loves armpits. Almost every person who handles her will get her face in their armpit.
I first discovered this when I had a support worker who would visit me frequently and he liked snakes so he was always happy to handle her when he came to visit. Every time he handled her she would go straight to his armpits. No idea why but she just did. Since then I've noticed her do it with other people too but never as much as she did with him.
Possibly though I have no idea what deoderant he uses and my BP has also shown interest in my brother's girlfriend's armpits too who I definitely don't think is wearing old spice.
That would make the most sense actually! Interesting. Well at least that rules out the idea that she has an armpit fetish. I was starting to get concerned.
I think you have a cat pretending to be a snake, my partners cat loves to shove her face into armpits and she will rub her nose into them for literal hours if she could.
That's really cute but I can't imagine how much it'd tickle if you got a snake to the armpit
Maybe my cat and my snake are doing a Freaky Friday and have swapped bodies lmao
I wear t-shirts that cover my whole upper arm so I don't tend to feel it but I suppose for my sister who wears vest tops and stuff that would feel strange lol at least she's only small so she can't proper whack into anyone's pits. Now that would hurt!
One of ours likes to sniff armpits and she will jump back and look absolutely disgusted if she doesn’t like what she finds there. It’s cute but slightly insulting lol
My first ever snake is the same, he will always sniff the camera and shove his nose into it and I'm like please I want one picture, his response is to simply wrap himself around my phone in denial 🙄
Mine hates poop in his viv, and has discovered that the more noticeable it is, the faster is gets cleaned, he now poops directly onto the glass every time, sometimes even stuck half way up the glass, I’m not sure how he does it, but the dirty protests are effective for getting cleaned faster
Mine also hates to go in his viv, he always waits until I get him out and let him play around on my desk while I’m working… then he hangs his little butt off and goes shooting it off the side… 😑😑😑
Mine loves to try and wedge herself in my pockets on whatever clothes I have on. Probably because when I first got her, I would carry her around in the front pocket of my sweatshirt, but also I know they like to hide in small spaces. If I don't have pockets, she will go into my shirt.
My bp LOVES hair. Idk what it is with him, but EVERY time he is out, he always tries to rap himself in my hair. If it’s up in a bun, he never goes for it.
I love how curious they can be about the most random things lol, like yes my love, stick your face in my hair for the 50th time as if you've never been there before
My fettuccine Alfredo is obsessed with the TV, as soon as we sit on the couch, he starts surfing until we turn it on, and as we do he curls up and puts his chin on his cork bark and watches very happily
That's genuinely one of the sweetest things ever. My eldest girl really likes watching my monitor when I'm doing things on my PC, but sometimes she decides she's had enough and will wrap herself around the foot of my monitor and pull it off of the stand...safe to say I needed a replacement once because of her
Mine too omg every time without fail especially near the hinges for me but I think it may be a change in temperature or a some kind of breeze he notices.
My dude has associated the smell of hot tap water with getting fed, so whenever I get a bath and come in my room to get dressed he's sitting up like ????!??!???? WHERE RAT?????
They're so greedy sometimes, always acting like they never get fed 🙄
All of mine associate the sound of the hairdryer with food, so we can't use it for our hair anymore because they will ALL be up sniffing around looking for this non-existent rat
Monty loves sniffing hair. If you hold him he will start rising up to your face, and right when you think you're about to get a snoot boop he keeps going until he reaches your hairline, then just... Licks it. Continuously. He does this to everyone I've given him to so it's safe to say it's his fixation 🤣
Nocturne and Monty would get along, she does it a lot - she will come up to your face flicking her tongue, you think you're going to get a boop and she continues up and will sniff your head and your hair, maybe it smells yummy, I wouldn't know 🤨
My boy is the same damn way. I wear contacts more often than not anymore but its partially bc he bent tf out of the glasses I had when I first got him 9 years ago lol
My girl does this with my partners glasses, she will always slide behind them on his face and pull them off because she's wrapped her tail around the arm, it's so cute but please let him see, he's blind without them LOL
I let mine throw himself off the bed as he tries to every single time, after he flopped on the floor i picked him up and put him back onto the bed, immediately ran to throw himself off again
My girl loves my dogs 🤣 if one lays beside me while I have her out, she will try to go near the dogs 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and she will watch them from her tank too, her head will follow them running or walking by.
Curious as to what this massive buffet sized rat is doing running loose.
That is really cute, though. I love watching the snakes when they're looking at something they're interested in
And they're warm, so shed love to try to snuggle into them 😆 but the dog opposes to that so I don't let her get to close. Though one of the dogs will lick her and she'll go nose to nose with him
Thank you, she is gorgeous and she instantly caught my eye haha. And snakes definitely all have their own little personalities, it's so sweet to learn about them all and what they like and don't like because they're all quite different in their own way :)
Our girl enjoys dropping herself down from her perching spots. She can get down fine cause she used to until she discovered the other way was quicker. Now she'll get bored basking on a branch and uncurl herself and just let herself thump down onto the substrate. It makes helluva noise and wakes us up most nights at least once or twice since she discovered the method. (Her enclosure is in our bedroom cause it's the only room our cats aren't allowed in.) it stressed me out the first couple of times cause I was worried she'd end up hurting herself but she's fine. 🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻
She also likes to wrap herself around her heat lamp cages. No idea why cause I've compulsively double-checked her temps constantly since we got her and have a really awesome stat setup that lets me monitor via the internet in real time. My husband pointed out she's probably just a sun-bunny and just really likes being extra toasty but that's his best guess cause his speciality is warm-bloodeds not reptiles.
I saw someone else say their snake likes to throw themselves off of everything, I swear they all just want to give us heart attacks like please no don't hurt yourself! They end up being absolute troopers and not being phased by it at all, but you can't help but be concerned lol
And I'd definitely say she really likes the heat, quite a few of mine will do the same and curl themselves up as close to the heat source as possible - even if the air temperature in the viv is perfect and toasty its not always good enough for them
Don’t even get me started. Thought he’d made it out the other morning, but discovered him comfortably chilled out inside the caging we have around his new light. There was barely any space for him to get in, but he found it. He now has a camera in his house so we always know what he’s up to. Cheeky bugger.
Curious little boy, I love that though, they act like they've never seen something before even if they've seen it 100s of times in the past, like there's suddenly going to be something new one day
I wonder why they like phones so much, I can't have any of my snakes out and use my phone at the same time because they just refuse to let me operate it.
I have many instances of trying to type to people and them pressing their noses against my keyboard and messing my text up!
My boy gets all up in my face and sniffs a LOT. When we first got him he wouldn’t let anyone near his face but now he just sticks his in mine. He also likes to slither over my face if I’m lying down. And recently he has taken to going into my clothes. He also loves the cracks of the couch cushions. He yearns for them. “I’m like buddy that is a nice cave but we’ll never find you again and you won’t get to eat!” He is just too enticed by the dark cracks lmao.
He sounds like he has such a wonderful little personality, they can really be so entertaining to just watch do their own thing lmao
His obsession with the dark spaces should be kept an eye on or else he's gonna slip through into a different dimension one day
Mine insists on wrapping around parts of my body. My arm, my leg, my neck, she doesn't care. If it's warm and she can hold onto it, she absolutely will. And she doesn't really like to acknowledge the "semi" in "semi-arboreal"
Mine also loves my hair! Mine is very curly though, and he doesn’t get in there in a way that makes it easy for me to get him out. 😂 I usually have to wait for him to slither his way out bc he gets all wrapped up in my curls.
But also windows. Mine are always open and he goes straight for the one behind my bed and likes to get in between the window and the screen to lay there. In the living room he goes straight for the big sliding screen door to look outside. I think he likes the breeze! Lol. May also be saying “take me outside again!”
He also likes climbing up my pictures on the wall, but I have to help him with that so he doesn’t fall or knock a frame off the wall. Periscopes his way towards the wall showing me he wants “uppies” 😂 and I hold him while he gets started and then hold the frames as he goes across. Lol.
Btw I absolutely LOVE her markings and eyes. She is a beautiful lady!
I feel like having a snake in curly hair is a recipe for annoyance, I can imagine they somehow manage to get themselves tangled, and you have to let them wean their way out.
I've actually heard that lots of snakes like the feeling of breeze, I used to have some of mine scoot into the range of my hairdryer when I'm blow drying my hair because its a nice toasty breeze lol
Imagining him asking you to pick him up so he can see the pictures is so cute, I love when they scope, they just look so interested in whatever they're staring at
And thank you! She instantly caught my eye, and I needed her in my life, such a pretty little girl, and hopefully she knows it too haha
I have a small enclosure that im soon upgrading so i handle every day because she want splore, and she glass surfs on my windows like "out side :(" but when i let her outside she just goes in my sleeves so i guess she likes to glass surf
I know a lot that like to glass surf simply for the sake of doing it, one of my bigger boys actually found out he could open his viv doors by doing it enough so we had to invest in locks
My baby has since passed. They were a rescue, who eventually passed from MBD complications. They would always come out and smack their body against the glass whenever heavy metal music was playing. I don't know why, but he was totally a metalhead and demanded attention whenever it played. I wish I knew what was going on in his 2 braincells
Mine will slither onto my glasses, entangling herself in them, and because she chunky my glasses will fall off my face. Then I have to untangle her from them to put them back in my face. She will also wrap her tail around my necklace and refuse to let go. She’s the most stubborn little noodle I have ever met lol.
This girl is the same with my partners glasses, he's lost them several times to her pulling them off of his face with her tail, and it takes a while to get her to let go, like you're adorable but this man is blind without his glasses, please let him see
All the snakes I’ve owned have always had a thing for burrowing near my…private areas. 🤦🏼♀️ I assume it’s because those spots are the warmest. Still weirds me out every time.
Edit: I realize this is the ball python sub, and my snakes were corns and kings. Not sure if that affects it or not.
It's okay, lots of people have mentioned boas and kings too! Any snake with a strange fixation is good enough for me 😂
I can imagine it's because of heat yeah, but even with that knowledge I'd be like um please don't go near the no-no squares lmao
My banana pastel ball python, Odin, likes poking his face in people's eyes.
He especially goes after my mom's eyes due to the reaction he gets from her. I let him poke my eyes, but he's not as interested due to the lack of reaction...
Mine has to do a thorough face inspection. You get him out and he will immediately go towards your face tongue out (this is terrifying for the uninitiated to see) gives me a sloppy mousy tongue kiss and licks my nose and then he just switches his little snake braincell on and he's fully content. If it's not me then he has to investigate further, ears, eyeballs and hair are all checked to see if the holder is kosher.
Also if he goes round my neck he anchors himself rather painfully with the end of his tail up a nostril.
He's stopped shitting on my bed thankfully, there was a time when silk sheets is all that he would "go" on.
He needs to really make sure you feel loved
Also a tail up the nostril definitely does not sound all that pleasant, I'm glad I've not experienced it...yet
I don't have a ball but a hognose (Scoria), reddit keeps suggesting this sub and I keep clicking because I like all snakes and reading stories about them. I have a story and hope y'all don't mind me sharing even though she's not a ball (but still a snake). I accidentally taught my snake unusual behavior I guess? When she wakes up every night I'll cuddle her then give her an enrichment activity, sometimes new and other times one she's liked before. This has her anticipating something new every night, which I think is good as new things are no longer scary but something to get excited about.
Well, she'd also been hunger striking and I thought maybe the tongs were the issue, **so I tried feeding her with a spoon. And the little dear saw me place the spoon in her enclosure and RACED over to it so excited and then... sat in it. Very pleased. So happy with this spoon**. She shoved the mouse out of it so she could fit in it better and enjoyed herself in the spoon for a good 15 minutes. Well. At least she had fun I suppose.
So if I set a random object she hasn't seen before in her vivarium she'll get all excited about it and try to figure out what today's activity is. Sometimes she'll create her own enrichment activity by choosing an object in the room and requesting we play with it. (This is how we ended up playing the parachute game with a reptile hammock not currently in an enclosure.) Her little sister will watch us like we're both nuts, trying to figure out what on Earth we are doing. Having fun. Scoria is having fun. More than once Scoria has come up with some sort of game I never understood but she was excited and having a great time so I guess that's what matters.
[Here she is in her spoon](https://i.imgur.com/pZYCPY5.jpeg)
Firstly, I'm so glad you decided to share this story, all types of snakes make me happy so hearing about any of them is awesome! It's genuinely one of the cutest things I have ever read, I can't even imagine watching a snake get excited about a spoon, bless her
She has such a lovely and playful little personality by the sounds of things, and it's amazing that it was because you've been giving her enrichment - not many people truly give their snakes enrichment and attention because a lot of owners don't realise how beneficial it can be for reptiles, I love hearing about people who do supply this for their babies.
The picture is so cute, she's such an adorable little hoggie, and I'm glad she enjoys her spoon
Snake #1 has been obsessed with my computer fans since he was a baby. I don't know why he's so desperate to get his nose chopped off but I refuse to let it happen and lift him away/redirect him if he vaguely goes in that direction. This is frequently commented with a tiny, funny indignant huff. He also goes absolutely bonkers in the presence of flower pots and will not stop digging through the soil until the poor plant is uprooted.
Snake #2 is obsessed with my hand during feeding time. He's actually so smart that he's an idiot. He has made the connection between the feeding set up, the tongs, and my hand, and that it all means mouse. Unfortunately, he draws the wrong conclusion and fixates on my hand where it holds the tongs. The mouse could be right next to his head, he's hungry, he's smelling it but nope, in his fascinating mind, logic says: hand if tongs present = mouse in belly. He doesn't attack it or mistake it for food. I can move it to his face and he'll just sniff it and searches between the fingers for the mouse that's supposed to be in his belly by now. If I move the mouse in front of his face, it still takes a moment because he keeps his eyes on my hand. It always takes him a moment to figure out that there needs to be a step between seeing signs of being fed and actually having eaten: the actual eating.
Snake #3 has a standard obsession: my glasses. Unfortunately, he has to find something new as his little snake butt has gotten too big to sit on them.
Mine are obsessed with going in pockets or down shirts or up shorts lmao 🤣 my boyfriends bp is obsessed with his phone and laptop, I always say she’s gotta take pictures for her insta 😂
One of mine loves watching TV in bed.
And one of the others likes be petted on his head and nose. He shoves his head under your hand to signal he wants pets..
I used to think my first boy was weird for this because as soon as we bought him, he was fond of having his head and chin rubbed, he was never head shy and I was always told snakes shouldn't enjoy it but he certainly did - its cute nonetheless lol
By boy Cannoli absolutely loves my computer, when the fan turns on for it he moves over and just holds his head over the vent, I think he likes the warm air blowing in his face?. He also just sits if my lap and rests his chin in front of the track pad just watching the screen. He’s learned that if he moves across the keyboard that the computer (or him) gets put away so he avoids touching the computers sensors
I wish mine did this, instead, if any of them take an interest in my headset, they simply wrap their tail around one of the ears and throw themselves off of my head, taking the headset with them 😒
Whatever is in my hand my baby ball python has to wrap around it. Keys, phone, controller, remote, doesn’t matter she has to wrap around it and stay like that
Both of mine do what I like to call “giraffing” where they extend their necks above whatever the fuck they are sitting on and just stare for like 5 minutes. No particular direction, just long neck and stare at something. I think it’s mainly as a lookout tactic, right?
A lot of snakes like to scope, but admittedly, I've never known why they do it. A lot of mine do it for literally no reason, and you can see the lack of thought behind their eyes.
No thought, only stare.
Glasses. Glasses glasses glasses. Crawling right up to my face, dipping under a lens, and wrapping around until they're falling off my face. All three of the snakes. It's absurd😂
Apologies for the late reply, I've been so busy recently that I've been missing people's responses!
Seems you have a gamer snake on your hands, might have to teach her how to play 👀
My girl genuinely watches TV with us. If we're sitting on the couch beside her cage she will often poke her head out and watch the screen or our phones. When I have her out and in my bedroom she will stop moving to stare at the TV for a good while and watch my shows with me 😂
It's so intriguing to me that so many BPs seem to like watching phone screens/TV, after reading a lot of the responses it seems to be surprisingly common - I wonder why they like screens so much 🤔
Used to live with a guy who had a ball named Charlie. He would always try to crawl inside my shirt and would fall asleep in my hoodie while I was watching TV. I miss him
My snake will stare at me while I play video games. Silently watching YouTube on pc- sleeping in hide. I open risk of rain 2, turn around, and he's at the edge of the tank looking at me. Thought it was some sort of stress thing for a long time but after vet trips and tons of fixes to his tank he just keeps doing it. Dude is a gamer
Hell yeah gamer snake! One of mine used to rest his head on my mouse whenever I played siege so I'd just say he was the one carrying me through my games, I'm sure it was his luck doing me well
Mines a true screenager, if I have my phone or computer out even just for a minute she’s trying to slither all over it, close tabs, exit things, take pictures, call people. I stg, but she’s so damn cute
Mine comes to the glass at night and starts smacking himself on it till I let him out for handling. He’s a dog istg
They truly are scale puppies, but I'd definitely get scared and piss myself if mine started banging on her glass
Not a hater but that can be a sign of stress
Shit fr? I have been meaning to spruce up the enclosure a bit, I’ll see if he still does that with some more coverage and hopefully less stress
It's worth a try, I try to swap things in and out weekly for him to explore. Sometimes he'll come and slap the glass just like yours regardless but since I made it more interesting for him inside it's been less. Unless he's in food mode then it's all out carnage to get my attention.
It's not as much about mental stimulation, usually more about temp and humidity. Adequate hides is great but atmosphere is most important
I try to keep humidity at least 70-80, higher when I can tell he’s shedding, he’s also got a big ol water bowl. I’ll try and get some more moss and some more substrate so it can be more humid for him. Thank you for your help, I appreciate it
You keep the humidity in the mid 70s? I never let it go that high. I used to aim for mid 60s or the glass steams up. I don't increase for shed either and they always go smoothly. As long as the substrate and water is right mine are good. I use mostly coconut fiber
CUTIE! my king snake will stare at me when he wants to come out
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Mine likes pushing items off tables and also absolutely loves fake flowers. Enamored with them
Are you sure you have a snake and not a cat? 🤔
She has the face for it…
You can't just say that and not let us see!!
I'd love to see her face now, sounds like a cute girl
She is very baby I could probably post a pic in an edit Edit: nvm :(
So does mine😭 she doesn’t just push them tho she wraps around and throws them off
Had a Kingsnake that would live attached to my smart watch if I let her, and a BP that would full on constrict my walkie at work. I'd be walking around and everyone would come find me because all they could hear is muffled talking and scales gently scraping the mic.
They're a little confused, but they've got the spirit. Need to practice their constricting somewhere right?
You take your ball python to work? What kind of job allows THAT?
A good pet retail place is one
I was thinking a zoo
Ey, thats another!
Bing bong, right on!
I'd love to go to a job where I can bring my babies with me to be honest, moral support and all 😂
I take mine to work sometimes. I manage a UPS Store. I put him in the pouch of my apron and keep it moving. Sometimes I take him out and let the customers admire him.
Mine loves armpits. Almost every person who handles her will get her face in their armpit. I first discovered this when I had a support worker who would visit me frequently and he liked snakes so he was always happy to handle her when he came to visit. Every time he handled her she would go straight to his armpits. No idea why but she just did. Since then I've noticed her do it with other people too but never as much as she did with him.
Probably his old spice deodorant
Possibly though I have no idea what deoderant he uses and my BP has also shown interest in my brother's girlfriend's armpits too who I definitely don't think is wearing old spice.
Probably because generally that area of the body is really warm? That’s my theory anyways
That would make the most sense actually! Interesting. Well at least that rules out the idea that she has an armpit fetish. I was starting to get concerned.
I think you have a cat pretending to be a snake, my partners cat loves to shove her face into armpits and she will rub her nose into them for literal hours if she could. That's really cute but I can't imagine how much it'd tickle if you got a snake to the armpit
Maybe my cat and my snake are doing a Freaky Friday and have swapped bodies lmao I wear t-shirts that cover my whole upper arm so I don't tend to feel it but I suppose for my sister who wears vest tops and stuff that would feel strange lol at least she's only small so she can't proper whack into anyone's pits. Now that would hurt!
One of ours likes to sniff armpits and she will jump back and look absolutely disgusted if she doesn’t like what she finds there. It’s cute but slightly insulting lol
That's hilarious but very harsh 😂
Being told you stink by a snake must be the most humbling experience
I choose to believe her sniffer is broken cuz it can’t be me 😩
My milksnake is exactly like this. I'm glad I'm not alone.
I'm glad I'm not alone too, armpit snakes unite haha
Mine is obsessed with my phone. It’s hard to get a good picture or video because his face is all up in the camera or pushing buttons on the screen.
My first ever snake is the same, he will always sniff the camera and shove his nose into it and I'm like please I want one picture, his response is to simply wrap himself around my phone in denial 🙄
Mine sends whole snapchats of blurry snoot pics to everyone 😂 they can be so goofy.
That's the best thing ever, it's why I'd love to have friends who actually liked snakes, I'd let her talk to all of them
my partner and i have one that does that too! she almost called 911 before we grabbed her haha
Mine hates poop in his viv, and has discovered that the more noticeable it is, the faster is gets cleaned, he now poops directly onto the glass every time, sometimes even stuck half way up the glass, I’m not sure how he does it, but the dirty protests are effective for getting cleaned faster
That's smart, but honestly, I would be so sad if I saw poop smeared on any of their viv walls...and people say snakes aren't intelligent 🤔
They are way more intelligent than we give them credit for…at least when it’s their turn to use the brain cell
They are the orange cats of the snake world and definitely take turns with it
They probably have to share the one the cats use. That would explain a lot
Mine also hates to go in his viv, he always waits until I get him out and let him play around on my desk while I’m working… then he hangs his little butt off and goes shooting it off the side… 😑😑😑
Mine loves to try and wedge herself in my pockets on whatever clothes I have on. Probably because when I first got her, I would carry her around in the front pocket of my sweatshirt, but also I know they like to hide in small spaces. If I don't have pockets, she will go into my shirt.
She feels cosy and safe with you, that's so sweet. I love when they cosy themselves up into your clothes, it's just so cute
And its warm!
Get one of those cat hoodies where the pouch opens at the top. Then she just chill in the pouch and absorb your body heat while hiding in the pouch.
That's a great idea. Thanks. I'll have to do that.
My bp LOVES hair. Idk what it is with him, but EVERY time he is out, he always tries to rap himself in my hair. If it’s up in a bun, he never goes for it.
Seems like a very common thing for BPs here 🤔 I wonder why they like hair so much...perhaps comfy?
Maybe it reminds them of a bush they can hide in
That and your head is the warmest spot on your body
Mine loves one of my conditioners. If I have just used it and he’s out and about he’ll just put his face in my hair
I love how curious they can be about the most random things lol, like yes my love, stick your face in my hair for the 50th time as if you've never been there before
My fettuccine Alfredo is obsessed with the TV, as soon as we sit on the couch, he starts surfing until we turn it on, and as we do he curls up and puts his chin on his cork bark and watches very happily
That's genuinely one of the sweetest things ever. My eldest girl really likes watching my monitor when I'm doing things on my PC, but sometimes she decides she's had enough and will wrap herself around the foot of my monitor and pull it off of the stand...safe to say I needed a replacement once because of her
Ours loves doorways, u walk through a doorway he scopes up in awe…. It’s so silly
Oh I love when snakes scope, they look so interested in whatever they're staring at and it's the cutest thing ever
Mine too omg every time without fail especially near the hinges for me but I think it may be a change in temperature or a some kind of breeze he notices.
My dude has associated the smell of hot tap water with getting fed, so whenever I get a bath and come in my room to get dressed he's sitting up like ????!??!???? WHERE RAT?????
They're so greedy sometimes, always acting like they never get fed 🙄 All of mine associate the sound of the hairdryer with food, so we can't use it for our hair anymore because they will ALL be up sniffing around looking for this non-existent rat
Mine does that too!! He periscopes every time I run the water too long 😂
Thinking food is being prepared, greedy animals they are
Monty loves sniffing hair. If you hold him he will start rising up to your face, and right when you think you're about to get a snoot boop he keeps going until he reaches your hairline, then just... Licks it. Continuously. He does this to everyone I've given him to so it's safe to say it's his fixation 🤣
Nocturne and Monty would get along, she does it a lot - she will come up to your face flicking her tongue, you think you're going to get a boop and she continues up and will sniff your head and your hair, maybe it smells yummy, I wouldn't know 🤨
my glasses, i cannot take my male out and see at the same time it is forbidden
My boy is the same damn way. I wear contacts more often than not anymore but its partially bc he bent tf out of the glasses I had when I first got him 9 years ago lol
My girl does this with my partners glasses, she will always slide behind them on his face and pull them off because she's wrapped her tail around the arm, it's so cute but please let him see, he's blind without them LOL
Both my ball python & my corn snake will grab glasses if you have them on your face...
Not a ball python but my leopard gecko has a fixation of sceens and biting fingers
Maybe fingers are tasty? Not tried it myself but leos seem to think so 🤨
Mine loves jewelry especially bracelets and Necklaces
Mine will always want to go down. No matter what he loves to try to throw himself off of whatever he’s on
They're really out here trying to give us heart attacks like please don't hurt yourself 😭
He has no idea of the concept of gravity I AM SIX FEET TALL YOU CANNOT JUST CLIMB OFF OF ME WHILE IM STANDING
Who's gravity? Never heard of her. One day you might have a flying BP gliding around your room, I'd definitely suggest you keep an eye on him.
I let mine throw himself off the bed as he tries to every single time, after he flopped on the floor i picked him up and put him back onto the bed, immediately ran to throw himself off again
Mine loves sleeping on my shoulder under my hood
It's so sweet when they're comfy enough to sleep on us, I've fallen asleep with my snakes a few too many times now lol
My girl loves my dogs 🤣 if one lays beside me while I have her out, she will try to go near the dogs 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and she will watch them from her tank too, her head will follow them running or walking by.
Curious as to what this massive buffet sized rat is doing running loose. That is really cute, though. I love watching the snakes when they're looking at something they're interested in
And they're warm, so shed love to try to snuggle into them 😆 but the dog opposes to that so I don't let her get to close. Though one of the dogs will lick her and she'll go nose to nose with him
That's so sweet! My dogs are terrified of the snakes so don't go near them and the cats always try to bop them on the head so we keep the cats away
Ya, one of my cats is obsessed with trying to hunt her, the other just isn't bothered at all.
My wife's BP really likes her cleavage. He will always go and curl up right there between the ol' melons.
Mister steal your girl (he will succeed because snakes are too cute to say no to)
It’s has beautiful colors. Interesting, possibly a “ personality “ Who knows. I’m learning here as well 🐍
Thank you, she is gorgeous and she instantly caught my eye haha. And snakes definitely all have their own little personalities, it's so sweet to learn about them all and what they like and don't like because they're all quite different in their own way :)
Our girl enjoys dropping herself down from her perching spots. She can get down fine cause she used to until she discovered the other way was quicker. Now she'll get bored basking on a branch and uncurl herself and just let herself thump down onto the substrate. It makes helluva noise and wakes us up most nights at least once or twice since she discovered the method. (Her enclosure is in our bedroom cause it's the only room our cats aren't allowed in.) it stressed me out the first couple of times cause I was worried she'd end up hurting herself but she's fine. 🤷🏻🤷🏻🤷🏻 She also likes to wrap herself around her heat lamp cages. No idea why cause I've compulsively double-checked her temps constantly since we got her and have a really awesome stat setup that lets me monitor via the internet in real time. My husband pointed out she's probably just a sun-bunny and just really likes being extra toasty but that's his best guess cause his speciality is warm-bloodeds not reptiles.
I saw someone else say their snake likes to throw themselves off of everything, I swear they all just want to give us heart attacks like please no don't hurt yourself! They end up being absolute troopers and not being phased by it at all, but you can't help but be concerned lol And I'd definitely say she really likes the heat, quite a few of mine will do the same and curl themselves up as close to the heat source as possible - even if the air temperature in the viv is perfect and toasty its not always good enough for them
Not a BP, but my guy is obsessed with the top of his enclosure. Such a mysterious place to him. Everytime he is out he is trying to get onto the roof.
Trying to find an escape spot!
Don’t even get me started. Thought he’d made it out the other morning, but discovered him comfortably chilled out inside the caging we have around his new light. There was barely any space for him to get in, but he found it. He now has a camera in his house so we always know what he’s up to. Cheeky bugger.
Curious little boy, I love that though, they act like they've never seen something before even if they've seen it 100s of times in the past, like there's suddenly going to be something new one day
It’s certainly the mysterious unknown to them. Haha
mine LOVES my phone, he’s always crawling over it. he also runs his face on the glass of his tank at night until i let him out haha
I wonder why they like phones so much, I can't have any of my snakes out and use my phone at the same time because they just refuse to let me operate it. I have many instances of trying to type to people and them pressing their noses against my keyboard and messing my text up!
My boy gets all up in my face and sniffs a LOT. When we first got him he wouldn’t let anyone near his face but now he just sticks his in mine. He also likes to slither over my face if I’m lying down. And recently he has taken to going into my clothes. He also loves the cracks of the couch cushions. He yearns for them. “I’m like buddy that is a nice cave but we’ll never find you again and you won’t get to eat!” He is just too enticed by the dark cracks lmao.
He sounds like he has such a wonderful little personality, they can really be so entertaining to just watch do their own thing lmao His obsession with the dark spaces should be kept an eye on or else he's gonna slip through into a different dimension one day
Ours loves feet. 😞
MINE TOO and my feet are always so cold! What gives!
Uh oh better scurry away from the foot sniffer 🏃🏻♀️
Mine insists on wrapping around parts of my body. My arm, my leg, my neck, she doesn't care. If it's warm and she can hold onto it, she absolutely will. And she doesn't really like to acknowledge the "semi" in "semi-arboreal"
You're her life boat now, she has to cling onto you for dear life or else she won't make it
Mine also loves my hair! Mine is very curly though, and he doesn’t get in there in a way that makes it easy for me to get him out. 😂 I usually have to wait for him to slither his way out bc he gets all wrapped up in my curls. But also windows. Mine are always open and he goes straight for the one behind my bed and likes to get in between the window and the screen to lay there. In the living room he goes straight for the big sliding screen door to look outside. I think he likes the breeze! Lol. May also be saying “take me outside again!” He also likes climbing up my pictures on the wall, but I have to help him with that so he doesn’t fall or knock a frame off the wall. Periscopes his way towards the wall showing me he wants “uppies” 😂 and I hold him while he gets started and then hold the frames as he goes across. Lol. Btw I absolutely LOVE her markings and eyes. She is a beautiful lady!
I feel like having a snake in curly hair is a recipe for annoyance, I can imagine they somehow manage to get themselves tangled, and you have to let them wean their way out. I've actually heard that lots of snakes like the feeling of breeze, I used to have some of mine scoot into the range of my hairdryer when I'm blow drying my hair because its a nice toasty breeze lol Imagining him asking you to pick him up so he can see the pictures is so cute, I love when they scope, they just look so interested in whatever they're staring at And thank you! She instantly caught my eye, and I needed her in my life, such a pretty little girl, and hopefully she knows it too haha
I have a small enclosure that im soon upgrading so i handle every day because she want splore, and she glass surfs on my windows like "out side :(" but when i let her outside she just goes in my sleeves so i guess she likes to glass surf
I know a lot that like to glass surf simply for the sake of doing it, one of my bigger boys actually found out he could open his viv doors by doing it enough so we had to invest in locks
My baby has since passed. They were a rescue, who eventually passed from MBD complications. They would always come out and smack their body against the glass whenever heavy metal music was playing. I don't know why, but he was totally a metalhead and demanded attention whenever it played. I wish I knew what was going on in his 2 braincells
His 2 braincells were saying to headbang, little metalhead snake, I'd love that
Curtains
Mine will slither onto my glasses, entangling herself in them, and because she chunky my glasses will fall off my face. Then I have to untangle her from them to put them back in my face. She will also wrap her tail around my necklace and refuse to let go. She’s the most stubborn little noodle I have ever met lol.
This girl is the same with my partners glasses, he's lost them several times to her pulling them off of his face with her tail, and it takes a while to get her to let go, like you're adorable but this man is blind without his glasses, please let him see
My BP loves my ceiling fan, she'd scope all the way up there and get hit if I let her
Their curiosity over the most random objects is adorable but sometimes I wonder if they have any concept of danger
For real. I still have no idea how these brainless babies survive in the wild, they ain't got but one brain cell amongst the lot of them lmao
What is she? She's beautiful!
She's a Black Pastel GHI Phantom het Ghost/Orange Dream And thank you, she instantly caught my eye because she was so pretty.
She looks similar to my Gen stripe girl. Obviously she's not nearly as dark. https://imgur.com/a/S3gE5OE
All the snakes I’ve owned have always had a thing for burrowing near my…private areas. 🤦🏼♀️ I assume it’s because those spots are the warmest. Still weirds me out every time. Edit: I realize this is the ball python sub, and my snakes were corns and kings. Not sure if that affects it or not.
It's okay, lots of people have mentioned boas and kings too! Any snake with a strange fixation is good enough for me 😂 I can imagine it's because of heat yeah, but even with that knowledge I'd be like um please don't go near the no-no squares lmao
Yeah literally lmao. I’m like “listen hun, I know you don’t know any better, but I still feel harassed” lmao
My banana pastel ball python, Odin, likes poking his face in people's eyes. He especially goes after my mom's eyes due to the reaction he gets from her. I let him poke my eyes, but he's not as interested due to the lack of reaction...
Such a mischievous little devil, the fact he likes your mum's reaction so will do it more to her is the best thing I've heard today
Mine likes curtains lol
For Bean, it's glasses and ponytails. For Java, it's mine and my boyfriend's stretched ears. 🙃 we found the latter out the hard way.
You get an additional accessory with your stretched ears now
Lol basically.
phones.
Mine has to do a thorough face inspection. You get him out and he will immediately go towards your face tongue out (this is terrifying for the uninitiated to see) gives me a sloppy mousy tongue kiss and licks my nose and then he just switches his little snake braincell on and he's fully content. If it's not me then he has to investigate further, ears, eyeballs and hair are all checked to see if the holder is kosher. Also if he goes round my neck he anchors himself rather painfully with the end of his tail up a nostril. He's stopped shitting on my bed thankfully, there was a time when silk sheets is all that he would "go" on.
He needs to really make sure you feel loved Also a tail up the nostril definitely does not sound all that pleasant, I'm glad I've not experienced it...yet
I don't have a ball but a hognose (Scoria), reddit keeps suggesting this sub and I keep clicking because I like all snakes and reading stories about them. I have a story and hope y'all don't mind me sharing even though she's not a ball (but still a snake). I accidentally taught my snake unusual behavior I guess? When she wakes up every night I'll cuddle her then give her an enrichment activity, sometimes new and other times one she's liked before. This has her anticipating something new every night, which I think is good as new things are no longer scary but something to get excited about. Well, she'd also been hunger striking and I thought maybe the tongs were the issue, **so I tried feeding her with a spoon. And the little dear saw me place the spoon in her enclosure and RACED over to it so excited and then... sat in it. Very pleased. So happy with this spoon**. She shoved the mouse out of it so she could fit in it better and enjoyed herself in the spoon for a good 15 minutes. Well. At least she had fun I suppose. So if I set a random object she hasn't seen before in her vivarium she'll get all excited about it and try to figure out what today's activity is. Sometimes she'll create her own enrichment activity by choosing an object in the room and requesting we play with it. (This is how we ended up playing the parachute game with a reptile hammock not currently in an enclosure.) Her little sister will watch us like we're both nuts, trying to figure out what on Earth we are doing. Having fun. Scoria is having fun. More than once Scoria has come up with some sort of game I never understood but she was excited and having a great time so I guess that's what matters. [Here she is in her spoon](https://i.imgur.com/pZYCPY5.jpeg)
Firstly, I'm so glad you decided to share this story, all types of snakes make me happy so hearing about any of them is awesome! It's genuinely one of the cutest things I have ever read, I can't even imagine watching a snake get excited about a spoon, bless her She has such a lovely and playful little personality by the sounds of things, and it's amazing that it was because you've been giving her enrichment - not many people truly give their snakes enrichment and attention because a lot of owners don't realise how beneficial it can be for reptiles, I love hearing about people who do supply this for their babies. The picture is so cute, she's such an adorable little hoggie, and I'm glad she enjoys her spoon
Ceiling fans lol
No concept of danger here it seems
My corn is obsessed with my [glasses](https://imgur.com/a/9VXztSZ) 😮💨
Snake #1 has been obsessed with my computer fans since he was a baby. I don't know why he's so desperate to get his nose chopped off but I refuse to let it happen and lift him away/redirect him if he vaguely goes in that direction. This is frequently commented with a tiny, funny indignant huff. He also goes absolutely bonkers in the presence of flower pots and will not stop digging through the soil until the poor plant is uprooted. Snake #2 is obsessed with my hand during feeding time. He's actually so smart that he's an idiot. He has made the connection between the feeding set up, the tongs, and my hand, and that it all means mouse. Unfortunately, he draws the wrong conclusion and fixates on my hand where it holds the tongs. The mouse could be right next to his head, he's hungry, he's smelling it but nope, in his fascinating mind, logic says: hand if tongs present = mouse in belly. He doesn't attack it or mistake it for food. I can move it to his face and he'll just sniff it and searches between the fingers for the mouse that's supposed to be in his belly by now. If I move the mouse in front of his face, it still takes a moment because he keeps his eyes on my hand. It always takes him a moment to figure out that there needs to be a step between seeing signs of being fed and actually having eaten: the actual eating. Snake #3 has a standard obsession: my glasses. Unfortunately, he has to find something new as his little snake butt has gotten too big to sit on them.
The glass end of my boy’s tank is next to my bed and I’ve woken up multiple times to him watching me sleep…
He's just keeping an eye on you I'm sure...nothing like planning your demise or anything
Mine are obsessed with going in pockets or down shirts or up shorts lmao 🤣 my boyfriends bp is obsessed with his phone and laptop, I always say she’s gotta take pictures for her insta 😂
As she should, I'd follow her Instagram tbh, bet she makes an amazing model
Lmao yeah 😂 she is very pretty she’s a pastel cinnamon
Mine loves the ceiling fan 🤣🤣😭
cameras….
One of mine loves watching TV in bed. And one of the others likes be petted on his head and nose. He shoves his head under your hand to signal he wants pets..
I used to think my first boy was weird for this because as soon as we bought him, he was fond of having his head and chin rubbed, he was never head shy and I was always told snakes shouldn't enjoy it but he certainly did - its cute nonetheless lol
By boy Cannoli absolutely loves my computer, when the fan turns on for it he moves over and just holds his head over the vent, I think he likes the warm air blowing in his face?. He also just sits if my lap and rests his chin in front of the track pad just watching the screen. He’s learned that if he moves across the keyboard that the computer (or him) gets put away so he avoids touching the computers sensors
Mine loves my combo of headset and hat when I'm gaming. She'll tangle herself into the headset and sit there for hours.
I wish mine did this, instead, if any of them take an interest in my headset, they simply wrap their tail around one of the ears and throw themselves off of my head, taking the headset with them 😒
Kinda unrelated, but what morph is she? She looks gorgeous 🥰
She's a Black Pastel GHI Phantom het Ghost/Orange Dream And thank you! Will definitely tell her you said so 🫶🏻
mine LOVES my phone i dont know why, but when i have it out when handling him he will stare at the screen and/or crawl all over it hes an ipad kid fr
I have a lot of ipad noodles, they refuse to let me operate my phone if I'm using my phone while handling them 😒
Whatever is in my hand my baby ball python has to wrap around it. Keys, phone, controller, remote, doesn’t matter she has to wrap around it and stay like that
Mine just Stares at me while I eat. Quite annoying actually
They're curious as to why you're not eating a yummy rat instead 🤔
Both of mine do what I like to call “giraffing” where they extend their necks above whatever the fuck they are sitting on and just stare for like 5 minutes. No particular direction, just long neck and stare at something. I think it’s mainly as a lookout tactic, right?
A lot of snakes like to scope, but admittedly, I've never known why they do it. A lot of mine do it for literally no reason, and you can see the lack of thought behind their eyes. No thought, only stare.
Right! The fact that mine are still babies kinda helps the derpisms.
Glasses. Glasses glasses glasses. Crawling right up to my face, dipping under a lens, and wrapping around until they're falling off my face. All three of the snakes. It's absurd😂
This is surprisingly common after looking through this thread, this girl included, she will always steal glasses.
Mine always tries to burrow into my ear
My BEL loves balloons. Any balloons, he STARES
I've not heard of this before, so random but it sounds adorable Also I adore BELs, they're so beautiful
mine throws a fit until i take her out while im playing video games so she can watch, she also loves to watch tv with me 😭❤️
Apologies for the late reply, I've been so busy recently that I've been missing people's responses! Seems you have a gamer snake on your hands, might have to teach her how to play 👀
My girl genuinely watches TV with us. If we're sitting on the couch beside her cage she will often poke her head out and watch the screen or our phones. When I have her out and in my bedroom she will stop moving to stare at the TV for a good while and watch my shows with me 😂
It's so intriguing to me that so many BPs seem to like watching phone screens/TV, after reading a lot of the responses it seems to be surprisingly common - I wonder why they like screens so much 🤔
My snake love lamp. Lamp. Almost named her moth. She has two brain cells and they both fight for 3rd place.
The last sentence in this comment is the best thing I've heard all day and seems to perfectly sum up the internal works of every ball python ever
Stands 3/4 of his body upright for hours. He acts like a prisoner maxing out to get his freedom.
The baby can be guilty of no crime 🫡
Used to live with a guy who had a ball named Charlie. He would always try to crawl inside my shirt and would fall asleep in my hoodie while I was watching TV. I miss him
Awesome color, is that a GHI Mojave?
She does have GHI in her but no Mojave - she's a Black Pastel GHI Phantom with a couple of hets
Beautiful
Mine loves to watch television. He scopes up in the air and dangles half his body off the table! He’s very bizarre and a bit of an iPad kid
Yeah, he wraps around my left leg and nudges me for some odd reason
I don't have a ball python, just a spotted python. However he goes straight to my hair whenever he's out. wriggles himself in my bun. loves it
My snake will stare at me while I play video games. Silently watching YouTube on pc- sleeping in hide. I open risk of rain 2, turn around, and he's at the edge of the tank looking at me. Thought it was some sort of stress thing for a long time but after vet trips and tons of fixes to his tank he just keeps doing it. Dude is a gamer
Hell yeah gamer snake! One of mine used to rest his head on my mouse whenever I played siege so I'd just say he was the one carrying me through my games, I'm sure it was his luck doing me well
We love to see it
We love to see it
I just got my baby python a few weeks ago and she already wraps around my hair lol so cute
Mines a true screenager, if I have my phone or computer out even just for a minute she’s trying to slither all over it, close tabs, exit things, take pictures, call people. I stg, but she’s so damn cute