I've got a two year old male who was/is aggressive for that very reason. Over the last couple of weeks I've been picking him up for a few mintues at a time gradually increasing the time in each session.

OK you are going to get bitten, but it doesn't hurt anymore than a paper cut, and as soon as she realises biting has no effect she start curling up in a ball as her next plan. Then its just a case of holding her until she feels comfortable enought to move.

At first she will constantly try to escape to the nearest and darkest corner and she move really quick, but over time she will want to investigate you and calm down.

Once she stops panicing and starts being nosey while held, you've cracked it!

Depends on whether you take a quick defensive strike or a feeding bite there, Akuma.

Defensive strikes might be more like a papercut... but a full-blown feeding bite is not. Expect blood and bruising. I was bruised from fingertips to wrist and couldn't move my finger properly for a week after a bite from a five-foot Colombian rainbow boa who tried to kill my hand.

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thats the thing, she doesnt just bite in a quick defensive strike, its a full blown assult. ha ha. thankfully i havent been bitten yet, simply cos i havent picked her up without gloves and long sleeves, but she has bit one of my friends and that was nasty. lots of blood and brusing. I do feel guilty though as i didnt warn her first, she assumed she was like my others and just went to pick her up. big mistake!!

Nice, I've been tagged 3 or 4 times by my royals, all of them defnesive bites while trying to tame them so they are handable.

Lucky enough for me, none of them see me for food so I dont recon I'll get a feeding bite off any of them, but the the OP's snake just sounds scared as it hasn't been handled ever.

(just read the above after posting, seems like big gloves and lots of attention is in order if you wnat to tame her, they more contact you have the less neverous she'll be, its a question of are you willing to invest the time?)

Constriction has always bothered me more than bites, rather have ten bites than one half decent constriction.

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Remember we are talking royals here.

OK, some of the bigger snakes are alot more dangerous, but I'd be really surpirsed if a royal could do any lasting damage to an adult human with constriction.

I know of someone who has been bitten loads of times by loads of different snakes and he says that the bite from a adult female royal he once had was definately the most painful. As someone else said I think it depends on whether its a 'piss off and leave me alone' bite or a 'yum that looks like my dinners ready' bite.

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A sub adult (800g) male royal broke my little finger with constriction

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Ouch! your not filling me with confidence guys, i think i'll just leave this one as a breeder. or get the missus to tame her, ha ha.

To be fair, I had just been feeding other snakes and got him out without thinking, he latched onto my hand and tried to eat my finger after he had 'killed' it, just let him get on with it because he was skittish and didn't want to stress him out.

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