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Quick question regarding personality

BarbwireNRoses

BarbwireNRoses

BarbwireNRoses
Lucy is definately developing a personality of her own. She is very mellow, no hissing/striking/musking she hasn't even pooped on me yet. The daily handling has her threading her way through my fingers and she now considers my hands a safe place. (if I have her out and something scares her she crawls back to my fingers) So my question is do snakes tend to keep their personalities as they get older? Do they get cranky? I don't want a 5 foot corn snake with an attitude problem. Anyways...just thinkin out loud. Those of you who have larger corn snakes, do you have handling problems?
 
If anything they get even more mellow with age... most of them anyway.
Sounds like yours is a sweetie :) I am sure she will stay that way.
I have only ever been bitten in feeding response situations when my hand smelled like a mouse. I have one female snow who has always been a tail rattler and doesn't like to be handled but she has never bitten, her babies are always feisty and easy to get started but will strike at anything. I feel disposition/temperament can be hereditary.
 
I've found that with my snakes, if they were mellow as babies, they stay mellow as adults. Skittish ones can mellow out, but some don't. That's why I recommend that if someone can handle the snake they are going to buy first, it will help them pick out the one that's the most easy going.
 
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