r/ballpython • u/julesc_4 • Dec 02 '25

Question What's she doing?

New baby girl... is she sizing me up?

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u/cchocolateLarge Dec 03 '25

Absolutely not sizing you up

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u/I_am_that_guy_10 Dec 03 '25

That’s not really a thing that they do.

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u/QBee187 Dec 03 '25

Mine does it to her rats after she kills them to figure out which end to start with

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u/GLC-YEAR Dec 04 '25

Should stop live feeding

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u/LornaSmores Dec 03 '25

She's like "damn this rat doesn't smell like rat, but it's warm like rat."

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u/muelo24 Dec 03 '25

Mine does the same... but she bites me lol

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u/gecko_sticky Dec 03 '25

Tactical bracelet

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u/CosmicKyloRen Dec 03 '25

She doesn't understand what you are. You aren't a threat or a mate or food so she's confused.

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u/Vedagi_ Dec 03 '25

I dont understand, how can she be confused?

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u/CosmicKyloRen Dec 03 '25

In nature, everything to a ball python is a potential threat, potential food, or a potential mate. That's it. They don't understand being our pets. It doesn't fit into their instincts. She'll eventually accept that you're none of those three things, but she'll never actually understand the arrangement. Most ball pythons think their owner is a threat at first. Yours has clearly taken a different route.

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u/jkjwysa Dec 03 '25

Kinda looks like she's trying to burrow into your skin, lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '25

My Kingsnake used to do that before biting/attempting to eat me

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u/Hello_pet_my_kitty Dec 03 '25

I remember reading/hearing a long time ago that the wrist is a good area to use for quick cooling down, bc your pulse is right there in a major artery, and there’s a buncha other blood vessels in that area.

I wonder if maybe she can feel your heart beat, or sense the heat coming off you, and is just poking and prodding to make sure you’re you and not a tasty rat prime for picking! Lol. 😋

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u/singsofsaturn Dec 03 '25

Every time my snake noses up to me, he's going to bite me. Dude always thinks I'm trying to feed him lol

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u/Even-Smell7867 Dec 03 '25

My snakes do this when they are about to bite me. Usually when its close to feeding time. Be careful and stay calm when it happens.

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u/Corvidae5Creation5 Dec 03 '25

Maybe you put your elbow in something?

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u/MouseOk1815 Dec 03 '25

I have one that does this to my legs. Im like "I am much to big of a food'

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u/Cumbiscuit69420 Dec 03 '25

My ball always does this to his rat, nudges at it exactly like that and then strikes. Dudes probably just abit confused with the warmth maybe

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u/CrowTalons Dec 03 '25

Smells kinda like food...is warm...should I nibble or not nibble?

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u/aarocka Dec 03 '25

Being a derp

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u/allyendamn Dec 03 '25

Era meu sonho...

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u/MeatYourNeedz Dec 03 '25

She's just checking this weirdly warm tree She's on

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u/Wrong_Weekend2470 Dec 03 '25

they sometimes do this when they are trying to shed

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u/sukaslav69 Dec 03 '25

Snakes don’t “size up” humans.

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