Hi all,
I've posted in this forum on and off over the years without getting a lot of love but I'm getting pretty desperate.
I have a 5 year old female Bredli Python, that I've had since 9 months of age.
Long story short she's always been a bit skittish but has had periods (months to a year) of being reasonably tame and easy to handle. Admittedly she's also had 2 periods of 6 months without being handled at all (2011 and 2013) when I had an accident, and then was overseas.
Over the past 3-4 months she has been completely skittish and psycho crazy. The last time I got her out, she was seemingly quite active in her enclosure (a very large "2 room" job) and so I got her out and she immediately kept trying to get away - the front half of her body arcing out all over the place and she snapped around to bite me and I dropped her. In the process she dislocated her bottom jaw and ended up taking off up the stairs, where I my partner and I had to catch her and wrestle her back into the enclosure. Ever since then I haven't been able to get her out without her snapping at us, and we just tried now by removing the basket she sits in and letting her move around the lounge a bit before attempting to pick her up. Once again she was completely jumpy and snappy and it was impossible to hold her and no length of time seemed to calm her down.
I don't know what to do! Any tips welcome,
Cheers,
Emily
I've posted in this forum on and off over the years without getting a lot of love but I'm getting pretty desperate.
I have a 5 year old female Bredli Python, that I've had since 9 months of age.
Long story short she's always been a bit skittish but has had periods (months to a year) of being reasonably tame and easy to handle. Admittedly she's also had 2 periods of 6 months without being handled at all (2011 and 2013) when I had an accident, and then was overseas.
Over the past 3-4 months she has been completely skittish and psycho crazy. The last time I got her out, she was seemingly quite active in her enclosure (a very large "2 room" job) and so I got her out and she immediately kept trying to get away - the front half of her body arcing out all over the place and she snapped around to bite me and I dropped her. In the process she dislocated her bottom jaw and ended up taking off up the stairs, where I my partner and I had to catch her and wrestle her back into the enclosure. Ever since then I haven't been able to get her out without her snapping at us, and we just tried now by removing the basket she sits in and letting her move around the lounge a bit before attempting to pick her up. Once again she was completely jumpy and snappy and it was impossible to hold her and no length of time seemed to calm her down.
I don't know what to do! Any tips welcome,
Cheers,
Emily