I remember doing a show, and one of the corns I brought along (I don't remember the cultivar, unfortunately), copped an attitude at the thought that I wanted to sell him. He just became EXTREMELY anti-social, and was striking at everything that came near the display case on the table. I had to pull him out, and of course, he bit the heck out of me in the process. What really was unusual was that he was biting me right through the bag whenever my hand touched against him. Never saw a corn snake do that before. But obviously he wanted to draw blood, and literally jumped at the chance if offered.
Anyway, not sure how the conversation turned to it, but I mentioned to a guy in front of the tables about this feisty creature I had bagged up in back, and he expressed interest. I told him I was considering just tossing him out the door of the vehicle on the way home up route 75. Maybe even slowing down a little before the toss. (Kidding..... well, maybe not
) He asked to take a look at him, and of course the monster was biting everything he could get in front of his nose. These were not little nibbles, but full out BITES, really putting his heart into it! The guy said he liked animals with "spunk" to them, so I just gave him the thing and good riddance. I just hope that corn snake didn't wind up killing the guy. I'd feel pretty bad about that. But I do hope he never bred that thing. I would hate to think offspring with that temperament are out there somewhere.
And speaking of sort of attitude, I remember the first year I was successful produce gray banded king babies. I had something like 40 of them hatch out, and I was ecstatic! Gorgeous little living gem animals! That wouldn't eat pinky mice to save their lives. Or my sanity. None of them. So I had to buy house geckos and tried to rustle up some local
Sceloporus to keep them alive until eventually some went over to pinky mice via the scenting route. WAY labor intensive! Tell you what, that burned me out of my interest in gray banded kings in a hurry. And I have had corn snakes the same way. The original line of Bloodred corns used to be like that. They were terribly difficult to get feeding.
Some animals are just not going to play by the rules that you want them to play by. Expect losses, and expect some aggravation and disappointments. They will be inevitable, so you might as well just accept it and plan on dealing with it beforehand.