Snake dancing
Well I think it depends on the snake really. The bull snake rates pretty low on social ability, but mine was always really nice. It had been handled a lot by boy scouts/educational groups before I got it.
Some of the exotics I looked at were very heavy....like 50-100 pounds or more. LoLo only weighed about 5-10 pounds at the most. The requirement for that job was a 4-5 foot long snake, according to the boss 'width was not important." tee hee! Anyway lewd jokes aside...I would do a search of breed temperament on the internet.
Heres a quick excerpt from a vet site:
Certain snake species almost always retain a gentle, docile nature when they are raised from infancy(boa constrictors). If fact, a healthy young boa constrictor makes the most suitable pet among the tropical snake species available. Other species (the larger pythons) are unpredictable and tend to be quite pugnacious as they mature, whether or not they are handled frequently. Reticulated and Burmese pythons are especially unpredictable when they are anticipating being fed. Snakes of these types, especially those handled infrequently, become conditioned to associating feeding with human contact and often cannot distinguish the difference between these 2 situations. The small Ball python has the most predictable and even temperament of all of the python species.
- Some species (anacondas) rarely develop temperaments suitable for captivity. Wild-caught adults of all species generally make unsuitable pets because they resist taming. One notable exception to this is the California Rosy boa. Even when obtained as an adult, they usually have a very shy, docile nature.
So there you have it.
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