does anyone have any tips on calming down an extremely agressive royal prior to handling?

I recently aquired an adult female royal and she is nasty. The guy i got her from got her as a CF Baby and has kept her for breeding purposes in a rack with no interaction at all apart from feeding times. as a result she is a total nut case when people go near.

I'd leave it personally, an aggressive royal is usually a great feeder, calming down or excessive handling might limit that.

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Its okay if he wants her for just breeding, but im sure he wants to handle her. Thats the best bit :p

Our royals are sooo dosile, you can do anything to them, even touch them on the nose & they just sit there lol

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Why would he want to handle it?

There is no need to handle something like a royal, they aren't fast enough or have a bad enough bite etc to give the 'in case I ever need to get it out for the vets etc' excuse.

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i have one who was/still can be very aggressive, and unpredictable. it took months of working around her slowly but surely, and not allowing her to see her behaviour was affecting me in any way, to get her to the stage of now asking to be allowedout. she is still very unpredictable, and prob always will be. fine one minute and trying to take your face off the next. yg is right about feeding response though, hers is awesome.
depends if you want to put in the time and effort, and are willing to take a few bites. tbh mine flew at you, but i really think it was head butts she was aiming for and not bites, although, because its always your face she goes for she was/can still be very intimidating if you dont know her. only once did teeth ever connect.

My female can be like that, so I used to get her out wearing motorbike gloves, so if she did bite it didn't matter and after a while she calmed down quite a bit. She can be an arsey mare at times but I now know when she likely to be like that, so leave her alone then. She was a CF so don't know if that's anything to do with it, I doubt it.

My young male is the most dopiest thing ever, you can do anything to him and he doesn't mind.

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in case you haven't noticed - some like to handle their snakes dear

anyhoo - with the problem, it's a hard one, as handling her a lot could help her to calm down, but then again, could stress her out and stop her eating, which is a more important issue. I'm lucky in that my girl is a docile lovely little thing, apart from at feeding time - which the holes in my right middle finger prove.

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I don't see the point in it, apart from getting large snakes or snakes that are too fast/flighty used to you enough to when the need arose if ever to handle.

Especially with royals, definitely with one like this, that will have been used to no interaction at all for however long and will be feeding fine and totally used to being left alone, you start handling her and she won't know whats goin on, she will either react by being more aggressive, stressing out, calming down or stopping feeding, I personally wouldn't be takin the risk.

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Buy the best, forget the rest.

tis what I was trying to put across. At this stage, her feeding is way more important then having handling sessions. And if the OP really wants to ''tame'' her down then it will be a long, hard and risky process.



P.S we still needs to chats about them 'bino hoggies and royals

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actually once mines is out she loves it. still have to watch your face though, as i said she is unpredictable. but i dont see the point in keeping snakes if you cant handle them, and what if it has a bad shed or something, its going to need handled to get that off.