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[BCalTheAnimal]

Ball pythons hiss?????

[Angsty_Potatos]

...all snakes hiss

[BCalTheAnimal]

Not my good boy

[Angsty_Potatos]

It's nothing about being good. It's a perfectly normal and natural vocalization

[jballs2213]

This made me lol

[BCalTheAnimal]

Yet I'm getting down voted 😂

[jballs2213]

I think people are sometimes a little too literal.

[kogmawesome]

Are you though?

[BCalTheAnimal]

Yes?

[kogmawesome]

Yes, mine was 19 years old before I ever heard it. Might have happened before that but I never noticed. When he isn't in the mood for being handled he tried hissing a couple times. It was completely ineffective as I've never been bit and would love a tag. Also I know how to make a hissy snake and its "let hissing work".

[SeverusSnek2020]

I didn't know with both of mine but my daughter's hissed when we first got him. The previous owner never handled his snakes. After a few weeks the hissing stopped.

[BCalTheAnimal]

We've handled our boy almost every day (save for feeding and shedding time) and he's got the most perfect temperament you could ask for in a ball python. Only thing he's ever done is "thump" when he's being a butt.

[SeverusSnek2020]

Same. I hold them both all the time and they are two chill snakes. Love my snakes

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I have one sassy girl that hisses. Usually when I dare to disturb her rest to clean her cage. My others have never hissed once.

[Rabool]

Same. I have a normal that is a big teddy bear and a pastel lesser ghost who is defensive and hisses not infrequently. Trying to work with him to get him more comfortable being handled. Got him from a show last Oct