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said hi everyone now today I want to
just talk to you guys about Boas a
little bit so starting from babies you
look at this little guy over here a
little girl she's so cute and I find
that when you I'm mostly probably
compared to ball pythons because
people's first pets are usually a corn
snake the ball python or a boa and I
keep mostly boas and when I compare them
to ball pythons you see the way that
this snake does not really seem afraid
she's just looking around and exploring
and she's not scared and this is one of
the things that I like about boas right
from the beginning they seem to have a
lot more confidence
her name's Naomi and she's hanging out
here with my uncle David he's visiting
from the States is his first time
holding a snake and as you can see she's
a couple months old three months old
probably and she's super sweet I can
reach in and touch her and go near her
and she's not really scared she's not
aggressive or anything and I attribute
this to basically from the time they're
born I take them and rinse there's like
embryonic sac off
and play with them and hold them I
usually set a timer for 15 minutes and
hold the babies every few days 15
minutes each and that just tames them
nicely so that they behave like Niomi
does here out of the last batch at 17
there was only one aggressive one and if
you just click the little box I'll show
you how to tame an aggressive baby right
from its early stages and now
introducing Sophie Sophie is the first
albino boa that I bought about 6 years
ago and I raised her from a baby
and as you can see she's quite calm as
almost all of my Boas are I'd say every
boa that I've raised will behave like
this as it gets older so you can see
she's even calmer than the baby was so a
big misconception that people have with
Boas is that oh they get big and then
they're gonna bite you or they get scary
or whatever but the truth is that the
way that the snake behaves as a child
will be the same way that it will behave
as an adult if it's not strikey and
nasty or scared then it's gonna grow
into an adult that is not strike you're
scared either I spend a lot of time
doing stuff like this where I play with
their face and I pet them like that and
I do that from the time they're a baby
till they get used to it
so my belief is that if you can get them
used to you rubbing their face then
they're gonna be fine with anything else
so because I've spent so much time
desensitizing them or like see at first
I think it is desensitizing like you're
you're making them not really react to
it not really be afraid of it and over
time I think they enjoy it and I could
be wrong about that
I could just be frustrating her right
now but if that's what I was doing she
would show me she'd like shove off or
like pushed me away or strike at mirrors
thing but she's relaxed she's flicking
her tongue she seems like she's having a
pretty good time the reason that boys
will get a bit of a bad rap is mostly
because they're bit bigger than ball
pythons so if you were to think about a
big dog and a small dog let's say a
chihuahua and a German Shepherd if you
were to get bit by a chihuahua it's not
gonna be that bad whereas if you got bit
pretty bad by a German Shepherd it could
do some damage you could really hurt you
so a Chihuahua bite won't end up into
newspaper a German Shepherd bite will
when it comes to snakes I think that's
why boas and ball pythons Boas will get
a bit of a worse threat but to me it's
not really a boa or ball python it's
more that the owner if an owner of a
back to the dog example if an owner of a
German German Shepherd didn't take care
of their animal properly and neglected
it and you know didn't feed it
eventually that animal would not be that
happy with them and it might be more
aggressive and biting now same thing
with the Chihuahua but the consequences
are not as high with the Chihuahua
because it's a little dog compared to a
small one so in the same way with boas
and ball pythons boas are a bit bigger
and I was scared myself of Boas I
thought if I got bit by one it'd be
pretty bad when I did get bit by about a
six foot boa did what he did is it made
me a lot less afraid of them because
their bites are not bad at all they
really like I can't even see a boa doing
much damage now we're talking about BCI
Boas and they don't usually get much
bigger than eight feet lots of the time
it's around six to eight feet and all my
Boas behave like this like I would have
a hard time to get Sophie to bite
and I wouldn't want Sophia to bite me
to me the more that I handle my animals
and spend time with them and have them
end up like this that to me is success
I'm not here to come online and show you
videos of snakes biting me or me scaring
snakes or intimidating them if a snake
does bite me and I get it on video it's
to show you like basically a snake
that's a little scared or a snake that's
a little defensive and yeah I post
videos of snakes eating sometimes but
some people want to know what it's like
for a snake to eat something and I'm not
ever showing live feeding videos where
animals are killing other animals just
eating and if that's entertaining to
some of you why not quick sidenote
snakes have a brill or oculis kale that
covers their eye so they have vertical
eyelids underneath that scale that open
up when it's dark and closed when it's
bright isn't that cool another thing
that I'd like to talk about is how
wonderful snakes really are when it
comes to having to feed and how much
they cost really like snakes are
villainized so much for all they kill
creatures and they eat them but when you
really think about it if you have a cat
or a dog you're feeding that cat or dog
daily and they're eating meat when you
think about yourself most of us are
eating meat and we're eating a lot of
meat now you compare that to one of
these adult snakes and I'll tell you
almost all my adult snakes eat once
every two to every three weeks so think
about that for sustainability imagine
like what other animal eats that little
you compare them to us you compare them
to cats and dogs and they win they don't
waste they don't eat as much as we do or
any of our other pets do so they're
actually like the
most sustainable pet you could have to
feed a snake like this like a boa will
end up costing you about fifty to a
hundred dollars a year to feed and what
are they eating they're eating rodents
they're eating in the wild things that
would overrun and so they're helping
control rodent population and more good
things about them like they are made out
of keratin so everyone that thinks that
snakes are slimy or goopy or whatever
you're wrong if you look at your nails
and you touch your nails your snakes are
basically made out of the same material
as your nails so they're very clean and
when you touch them they're not putting
anything on you exactly the opposite is
happening your oils are spreading on to
the snake so weird the dirty one
okay back to boas being wonderful pets
so if you're not a little child and
you're looking for your first snake
personally I believe that Boas are the
best first snake because lots of people
will start off with the ball python I
did myself but when you move up to boas
you get a little bit more intelligence
you get a little bit more confidence and
there's something really special about
that is it's really special to have a
creature like this that so many people
view as aggressive scary and to just see
it behaves so sweet now on its little
that's it's okay but when it gets like
this size it just it makes me so happy
and it's just it feels more like you
have a substantial pet now they're not
even close to as intelligent as dogs are
they're never really gonna love you but
they do definitely like and dislike
things I like to say they're just not
capable of complex emotions but they
definitely do over time learn to like
you or if they don't like you they'll
they'll make
get known me a snake that hasn't been
handled much and has just been kept kind
of like a display animal and just you
fed it cleaned it and haven't really
spent much time interacting with it
those snakes probably won't behave like
this and if you get bit by one of those
sometimes like it really is your own
fault for not putting that time in
there's people that say basically snakes
just want to be left alone they don't
get anything from doing stuff like this
but that's absolute nonsense like and if
you really feel that way to me you
shouldn't have a pet snake you shouldn't
you might as well just leave them in the
wild and not have one because if all
you're gonna do is have it in a tank
like a fish and to me any and the funny
thing about that is they'll look at it
like oh I'm really respecting the animal
and giving it what it needs okay so to
me get a fish I think that one of the
greatest things about snakes is that you
can take them out and you can
respectfully play with them into I take
mine out to the park I let them explore
and I'll let lots of other people touch
them too and help them get over their
fears to me that's a good thing for the
Hobby and I'll continue doing that
anytime you get bit by any snake it's
always gonna be your fault a snake is
never just gonna bite you because it's
not your fault you either scared it or
the most common time that anyone gets
bit is when they're feeding it or after
they fed it so it's called stupid
feeding errors because people have made
dumb mistakes right now this behavior me
petting it playing with it to me there's
zero risk in that and people can say oh
you know it's just a matter of time
until it bites you or whatever and you
know I've had two snake for six years I
don't think she's ever bit me so I'm
willing to risk that because even if she
was to bite me it wouldn't really do
much it would barely even hurt this
snake
can't kill me it can't kill my daughter
it can't really even almost hurt anyone
if you are afraid of this snake like you
have more reason to be afraid of a
household cat or dog anyways I was just
hanging out today with Sophie and she
was sitting here so lovely and I just
figured I'd do a little video to
hopefully teach you a little bit more
about snakes but was and if you were
wondering if you should get a bow for
sure I'd say start off with the baby
though it's always better to buy a baby
so that you can see its personality and
know that it's nice and if it's not you
can end up taming it and growing it into
a lovely snake like Sophie here if you
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