Squeezing?
I'm afraid this might be a really stupid question, but... I have a female corn snake who has been acting very oddly for as long as I've had her, and wondered if anyone knew what's going on. Her name is Enthalpy, and she's maybe eight or ten months old, perhaps two feet long, and quite slender, though she eats well. She may also be rather less than sane.
She squeezes and clings to everything. When held, she wraps herself up in knots around my fingers so tightly she can't move (and then looks at me like it's *my* fault.) Even if I pry her off me and set her down, she stays all stuck in a big knot for a while. Once she's got my fingers tied up, if she can still move, she keeps trying to go for my face, where her major interests seem to involve getting into my hair and/or cramming her tail up my nose, all the while knotted around my fingers in a way that makes my spine ache just looking at it. And she prods stuff too -- like she's trying to stab me with her head.
What gives? Is this normal? Entropy doesn't act like that -- he tries to escape, unless Enthalpy is clinging to him too. Is this a musular disorder, or is she just neurotic? Could she be deficient in something that affects muscle contractions? Am I doing something to seriously stress her out? Can she squeeze hard enough to hurt herself?
I just don't know what to do with her -- I'm not even sure if I should be worried or not. Thanks in advance for your help.
--TS
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Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
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