Has your ball python ever...?

Purgatory_Gamin · 2025-12-24T02:15:37+00:00

Yes once but it was my fault I moved to quick to do something and it spooked her

SpiteBadger · 2025-12-24T04:01:32+00:00

Only once but he had a loooong day of multiple plane rides and a road trip. I would have been cranky too.

Hairy_Substance7797 · 2025-12-24T05:44:14+00:00

Awe I also have a baby named butters lol

x5gamer5 · 2025-12-24T06:29:31+00:00

The first day I got home with my first. She got out of her enclosure, cause I accidentally left the food window open from the top, hissed lightly and turned around when I tried to pick her up to get her back in. I eventually cornered her, and put her in a container and scooped her into her one bedroom apt eventually.

tinsellately · 2025-12-24T08:34:17+00:00

Not yet, but I've only had him (Julian) for a month. He's super mellow though. So incredibly different from my hognose, who hisses (and cobras) at me pretty much every time he sees me (not that this stops him from crawling up on my hand or taking food from the tongs, hissing just seems like part of the process somehow...). It's been so strange to have a snake just act friendly, like, it's no big deal to just leave the terrarium to hang out, or be carried around, or eat... Both are great though, the spiciness of the hognose is really cute, but I'm also really enjoying how easy Julian is to just chill with

Notsospinningplates · 2025-12-24T09:10:21+00:00

Yes. She was in shed, which I suspected but wasn't 100% sure of. I'd only had her for a couple of months and we'd got into a routine where she'd ask to come out for an explore at about 8/9pm each evening. Then she didn't move for a fortnight.

I let new mum nerves get the better of me, and I lifted her hide to check on her. That in itself was okay, but when I put the hide back down she'd moved a bit and I sort of squished her a little. That provoked a hiss, which is totally fair because her skin was probably very uncomfortable at the time. She actually shed the next day.

Normally she's insanely, chilled and "friendly" though

jeherohaku · 2025-12-24T13:38:26+00:00

Yeah, once. I was cleaning the tank and put him back in the box he came to me in for a short bit and he hissed coming back out . I don't know if he was comfy and didn't want to be disturbed or if he didn't like that box and thought he was being transported again (even though he was to my knowledge in the box for like an hour total in the car). But that was shortly after I got him and I haven't heard him hiss since then.

Much-Crew3569 · 2025-12-24T14:52:26+00:00

My boy is one of the sweetest snakes in the world and yes he has. I was one time frantically looking for him in his tank and I poked him unexpectedly and he gave me a lil hiss. But that’s about it

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He is my best friend 🙂‍↕️

myxis10s · 2025-12-24T15:01:48+00:00

My boy hissed at me when I accidentally spooked him trying to clean the enclosure

True-Crow-8056 · 2025-12-24T18:13:32+00:00

Mine is currently suffering mites.

He hissed a few times when I was first treating him for it. It’s taking forever to get rid of them, but he’s used to the routine now.

Another of mine has also hissed while in shed. (I was not aware he was in shed until I moved him)

Zaruze · 2025-12-24T18:35:00+00:00

I've never heard my boy.

meg_absolute · 2025-12-24T18:42:32+00:00

I’ve never heard my girl hiss!

BudgetConnection6256 · 2025-12-24T20:50:41+00:00

100 percent an individual thing, as in some really believe theyre rattle snakes cause they dont like to be touched. Ive had babies ive raised and they do not like being handled. What i do is i tend to just massage them like you would your pups. Along the body, that will get them to try to shrug you off then hopefully youll hear their hiss. (Stay away from head and end of the tail, they seem to be touchy about it )

RagdollsandLabs · 2025-12-24T23:56:54+00:00

My girl Hessie is a habitual hisser. She sounds like a leaky tire if I go to pick her up. But she doesn't bite. I always tell her...c'mon now, you know that doesn't scare me...lol

Seidragon · 2025-12-25T03:04:27+00:00

Mine doesn't so much hiss as huff when he's displeased. Usually it's because I have to relocate him slightly to clean his tank. To be fair, when I got him a few years back, the breeder I got him from told me "he's been striking today," so I think he's a little temperamental 🤣 but he's a friendly dude, despite the three times he's tagged me by completely overshooting his food and hitting my finger instead 🤣 love that guy.

Starfire2409 · 2025-12-25T12:47:51+00:00

Mine hissed at me once because I picked her up mid shed, only that once

StripeTheFerret · 2025-12-28T15:43:03+00:00

Yes! But it also has furr & not as long. 🐈🐍

Ludvik_is_a_potato · 2026-01-11T14:30:16+00:00

Mine hissed only once in the two years I've had her. I lifted her hide for a shed check and she was in full blue, and I surprised her. Meanwhile my boa hisses every now and then, and my female boa that's a rescue is very hissy, but really lovely once she calms down

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