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Old 05-05-2002, 12:40 PM   #1
tschofie
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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Old 05-05-2002, 04:01 PM   #2
Iris
Well that sounds kind of weird...but I do know that some snakes are more "clingy" than others. My friend and I got our snakes at the same time and I've noticed that hers squeezes whatever he's hanging on quite hard (enough for the veins to stick out on my hand) and that mine usually has such a loose grip that he sometimes falls off while hanging from my wrist.
I think it is more of an individual's preference to squeeze as hard as it wants, but this is just my opinion and I could be wrong.
Very cool name choices by the way!
 
Old 05-05-2002, 05:00 PM   #3
Elaphe_Mo
I also think it is just the snake's personality. I have one out of 14 snakes who is incredibly clingy, just grabs on really tight whenever I pick her up. She's not jumpy, she just likes to hang on. I don't think it is anything to worry about.
 
Old 05-05-2002, 05:14 PM   #4
pdrau
Our male normal barely hangs on, while the new female has an incredibly tight grip. Must be a personality thing. Yours may just fear falling or not feel secure. When you put her down, she may just not realize you have put her down. Does she eat normally?

Peter
 
Old 05-05-2002, 08:53 PM   #5
Simon
I would say that it's only a personal characteristic of your little snake. I have 15 snakes right now and I would say that all of them have a different personality. One of the milk snake that I have is really really 'wild' it bites everything in front of it. As long as it thinks that it's in danger it'll bite no matter what it is in front of her!

Some of them are like yours too.......likes to cling on to everything and wouldn't let go.

So I would say it's just normal characteristic of your little snake!

Good Luck and Happy Herping!
 
Old 05-09-2002, 08:23 PM   #6
tschofie
Ha!

In other words, she *is* just neurotic ;) I am glad to hear that clingy-ness is fairly normal. Thank you all very much; I really appreciate your time.

Cheers,
TS
 

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