How to tame an aggressive burmese python?
Dude, I know exactly how you feel! I just bought a 6ft albino burm and she’s lovely but she hisses at me everytime I go to get her out. The answers are all very good that I have read. I have a couple of suggestions that might me useful: 1. U cannot show you are afraid of her! Right now when you leave her in her cage when she behaves this way she is learning that is she hisses/bites then she gets to stay in her cage. Although snakes arent like dogs, they CAN learn cause and effect! 2. Its very scary to think about being bitten, but the less you hold her the more this becomes a risk (not to mention these snakes get BIG). Get a pair of welding gloves if you need to and protect your skin (long sleeves/a hoodie, keep her away from your face, etc). I feel like if you do this at first you can get more comfortable with her (and her with you) and you can determine which of these things you should use regularly (if at all). Hope this helped! Hang in there, I know its dissapointing to buy something and it be aggressive, but I really do think she’ll calm down. I literally get mine out as much as possible and although she’s still hissy, she’s becoming more comfortable and Im able to read her body language better so we can avoid a mishap:) Good luck!
She could be “cage aggressive” (a surprising number of reptiles are) and is defending her teritory, telling you to stay out of her space, whatever. If she calms down nicely upon being removed from her enclosure and it’s just the whole getting her out thing that is the issue you should look into getting a snake hook ~ remove her from the enclosure with the hook and then handle her once she’s free of her environment. My burm is a big baby, she’s never struck at anyone or acted aggressive. I do feed all my reptiles in their enclosures (I don’t buy into the feeder cage line of thinking) and don’t have agression issues with any of them due to that. Once you get her used to being handled regularly she should do just fine, but may continue to be aggressive when you remove her from her space. Watch that you move slowly and calmy around her, quick movements could earn you a reflexive strike.
