just to understand like the reactiveness calypso so it's just like if if i open up this door
she'll come like shooting out at me it's not that she's nasty or anything she's calypso there's this
food drive and it and it's not like that with all of them like some of them aren't like that maybe
nintendo isn't like that even though he was like that when i put him in calypso's home for a while
they they're thinking you're gonna feed them or something you have to be ready to turn that off
and if if you're not and you're not willing to do that and you're not like confident with that
then you're just gonna end up scaring them or you're gonna end up getting bit or you're gonna
end up having problems see this is when i have the biggest like this is when they could end up biting
each other the most because they get excited they're not nasty at all i can handle them they're
totally fine but when i'm here they think they're going to be fed or something they get excited
and even though this snake is a manageable size where he could he's not that big of a snake
that he's going to be a bad pet if he behaved the way a boa did you'd be able to go in and grab him
and not have a problem but like when you have an animal that kind of like comes and looks at you
like that it's smart it knows what's going on but it just doesn't realize that you're not going to
feed it so as soon as it realizes you're not going to feed it it calms down but until then it's got
it's on that like hair string of nervousness i'm trying to kind of help people understand
if you're willing to do this then yes a super dwarf can be a perfect pet when you're coming
there there's like there's an excitement there's a kind of little freakiness and whatever
as soon as they realize that you're not gonna feed them then just like with the little one right
so here we go now now that we got past that stage hercules is fine i can hold him we can have a nice
time and not have to worry about anything and he's calm as ever he's a calm animal he's not strikey
he's not gonna strike at me but that kind of encounter that that thing that you have to
go through when you first take them out that's something that even if the snake is calm even if
it's a calm super dwarf that you think would never do that there'll always be that day where like
it's a little bit hungry or you're a little bit off and then mistakes happen if you're ready
and willing to do that if you're ready and you understand that that's gonna be part of keeping
these then this can be a great snake for you with other snakes like let's say boas yeah you
probably should have a snake hook too i've never i've never felt that i have to be on the ball
as much as with the retakes and they're special animals they're beautiful animals
they probably are my favorite for like how how they feel they feel amazing
they're really intelligent but at the same time because of that it's just i feel they
kind of deserve a lot more like it to me these aren't the type of animals that you should have
in a tub like i should have bigger homes for them anyone that keeps them should keep
them in a bigger home but then at the same time when you put these in bigger homes lots of time
you'll end up getting more cage defensiveness i find it really funny that you take one of these
you put in a little home and you get a lot less defensive snakes you put them in a bigger home
and it's almost like i have all this territory it's mine go away
and that ends up happening i've never really seen as much as with these guys how much change
happens with them depending on their conditions and like just something as simple as having more
hides or cooling it down a little bit or having them in a white home versus a black home like i'm
starting to think now maybe like calypso being in a white home changes her mood or like i don't know
i don't like there there's so much when dealing with snakes that you that you're always learning
i believe he's an adult size and he's probably like seven feet so and he he's he's a 75 percent
but still even though he's not that big it's still something to deal with and something
that you have to be ready for that little one was striking at his owner and even ivy i got before
was bit her previous owner ivy's never bit me but i'm really good at kind of reading these snakes
and seeing what's going on and kind of being on the ball i can almost look at any snake and know
what's going on i can tell if they're kind of nervous if they're curious um and all the
things that are going on and that's something that when you spend so much time around so many animals
you get kind of this intuition of what's happening you can't have that
if you haven't kind of had the amount of time and stuff with the animals you can't understand them
the same way because you just don't have that experience you have been you haven't seen it
you have to kind of go through experiences to be able to understand things and i know
each and every single one of their personalities how they react and what they do and everything as
much as i love these snakes i really don't think that they're the best first pet so they're great
animals they're perfect pets for the right people they're not they're not perfect pets for everyone
about five years ago i used to see pure super dwarfs at all the shows and everywhere and people
bought them and then they disappeared like i don't know what happened to them i haven't really
seen them anywhere so i don't know if people are like hiding them i just really think that in five
to ten years we're gonna have a lot of people with super dwarfs that are a lot bigger than
they thought that they would be and it's gonna cause a problem just saying this is i believe a 68
super dwarf jasmine and she's she's my favorite she's just got the best personality she's the
sweetest snake she's calm she she's not she's not the type that just doesn't stop
like i i fully trust her and she'll just relax
and once i take her out she'll kind of calm down and she'll let me pet her and it's
now queen's looking queen's looking she's like hey you're gonna take me out it's so
funny she's actually like staring at me and like see that is what's so special
about the super dwarfs they're just they're so intelligent like they think and you can like
see them thinking uh and it was funny because i didn't think about the eyeball thing for a while
but because none of none of my retics really have orange eyes but that baby has like orange eyes and
uh the orange eyes really kind of show when they look around like they just they look at everything
and their eyes they just they move lots of snake eyes they kind of just open and close
but you don't see their eye go like back and forth and with these guys like you can see
you probably can't see but like their eyes like their eyes will move around and stuff just kind of
like how our eyes do and they they see everything and they're very aware they're really really
special animals and they feel they feel unlike anything you've ever felt i remember i remember
so the first time i felt the super dwarf was from chuck i went to the show i saw him selling
super dwarfs for like a thousand dollars fourteen hundred dollars for an albino and i i touched it
i held it and i was just like oh my goodness i would never spend that much on a snake and
oh now i have six of them and i've just been slowly raising them and taking my time
i really want to get the babies that i can make from these snakes for myself
and i have that desire a lot more than to even really like sell them
because i don't think that most people should really have them
see how beautiful snake is
i'm back and i got to hold some more pythons you decided to go with the boa the boy yep yep
the boy seems to be less interested in killing me than the retake so i like him for that and
yeah he's a super chill snake and probably more of my speed than a retic from holding all of
them like how would you just for somebody that's never held snakes before uh how would you describe
describe the differences like how you felt kind of maybe from the sd how it behaved
how the bull behaved how the ball python it just for a beginner because it's like
i've been holding them all for so long but just to give people more of like a beginner's perspective
how would you describe the way they behave yeah well the boa feels comfortable in my hands
like it seems like it's comfortable the sd not so much it's a little flighty a little bit like
moving around that looks a little a little pissed but this this snake is very chilled out and then
the ball python was it was pretty good but um not as active and not as sort of engaging as the ball
so so it was basically kind of like the the bow is not as interactive the the ball python's not
as interactive and curious and stuff exactly and then the the bow is pretty good like it has that
curiosity it's paying attention to what's going on and everything yeah but it does it in a very
calm way yeah exactly whereas the retake does the same thing not that it's like attacking you or
anything but it's just it's it's more hyper it's ready to kind of like run away from you if it can
and it's it's a little like hyperactive you know it's a live wire it's a live wear for sure yeah
a little reactive and pretty good once you get it into your hands but uh a lot a lot more reactive
yeah and you know boas get a bad rep too sometimes is just being like a little bit more nippy or
whatever than ball pythons and stuff but to me the the big the two big differences is that you'll
have an animal that's a little bit more aware of things yeah and you'll have an animal that
gets a bit bigger yeah and the ball python kind of took about two or three minutes to come out
it just sort of balled off i didn't know where the head was you know
you know yeah nice snake but i let him hold the ball python it was just bald for a while
but a nice a nice snake to hold like if you don't have experience a nice
nice league back and when you first held this one it wasn't really doing much
either it was kind of just chilling and then now you've spent a decent amount of
time holding it seeing you know if it's for you and whatever and you see now it
it has that confidence it is moving around it's not really scared of you yeah it's not a flighty
animal yeah the the retic when you touch the head and it was not liking it right leave me alone yeah
exactly yeah yeah he's great i'm really happy with them thanks for taking the retaking off my hands
that's great no problem okay no problem it ends up working for everyone right yeah yeah because
yeah not really a great first snake i found yeah for some people maybe it would work but so he he
he never had any snakes before he brought the sd and he just asked if he could just give it to me
and i like you know it kind of sucks if you get your first animal and you want to give it away
and so i just said you know what i'll give i'll give you a snake so i gave him a boa now and
now he's gonna get to have like your first experience all over again yeah and i think this
this is this will be a better match and i think for most people the boa is just the perfect snake
and that's that's why i like them so much yeah yeah i can't believe how mellow your snakes are
when i went in to just get a couple of the bows he's like you don't use a snake hook or anything
i was just like nope my my fingers are the snake i'll just let them know
hey i'm not going to be um feeding you and and they just they chill right out they're
they're pretty good i i find them to be very just calm majestic creatures i think you're
gonna have a good time yeah yeah they don't uh they're very uh confident slow move movements
they're not sort of jerky like like the retic and maybe even like the ball pythons seem to be like
these have very assured movements well yes if you want to learn more about super dwarf articulated
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