It doesn't seem to now. It did at first, though. She was very irritable. She's a timid snake in general--the wimpiest strikes at food you've ever seen, and she just tail rattles when she's annoyed and nothing else. She's always tail rattled a lot when gravid, but the time she got the spinal injuries from being gravid, she tail rattled a lot afterward, too. I've always been really gentle with her since then, and she's ok, now, but at first it did seem that she wasn't feeling well. I've kept her very thin this winter in the hopes that she will not lay a clutch of slugs this year. I just don't want her laying, no matter what.
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