A couple of pics...

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah...if I go to Selena's cage and she is sleeping under her bedding...if I call to her, she pops her head out at me. Perhaps she can't hear...maybe it's just the vibrations...but she does look at me when I talk to her. My father talks to our dog and our cats all the time...so whatever.

They can hear you. Their hearing isn't very acute since they don't have an outer ear, but they do have an inner ear beneath their skull. Any sound that is intense enough to make it through the skin and into the skull bone, is heard. Don't expect them to come running when you call their name, and don't expect them to even know their name though. Unlike a dog or a cat, I don't believe that snakes desire to please their owners. It just happens by accident.

[EasternGirl]

She does pop her head out of wherever she is hiding if I call to her. Maybe she is not truly responding to me, per se, but she is responding.

[kibakiba]

Snap and Ember sometimes do that, it usually happens if I haven't fed them in a day or two, but they climb onto the tree and do that and fall from a bit higher. After falling they usually sit there like "whoa... what just happened?"

[EasternGirl]

Chantel...I went to Petsmart today. What a huge store! They had everything. I got the 20 gallon critter cage, the carefresh...(in purple, my fav color!), some plants, and some wood. Selena has an awesome enclosure now...I posted a new thread with pics. Thanks so much for your help!

Richard...thank you too for your help with all of the the enclosure info! Hopefully, I will get the lighting set up next. Your video helped me a lot in setting up Selena's enclosure.

Thanks to everyone!

[ConcinusMan]

Make sure everything is secure and stable. Wouldn't want her to knock something over and get pinned. I can get away with stacking that chunk of wood on top of the caves only because it's mopani wood. It's the heaviest, densest wood known to man, and the snakes are too little to knock it over or push it. Be careful how you place heavy objects in her enclosure.(if you do at all)

I wouldn't stack it like that if the snakes were much bigger than they are. They're still very small and too weak to push or knock it over. Don't underestimate their strength.

[EasternGirl]

Thanks. Yes, I am very careful about arranging things so that she can't get stuck behind them or under them...and not putting anything in that I feel she could knock down. I'm a big worrier so I am probably even more careful than I should be. Over-protective mother type!

[erinlovessnakes]

Since everyone else is doing it...

Here are a couple of pics of Selena enjoying some worms and a pic of her home...

If she ever lets me...I'll get some better pics of her.

i like the snake eating a piece of a worm

[EasternGirl]

Thanks! I love to watch her eat...it fascinates me. Unfortunately, she likes to eat very privately. She will hide, wait for me to leave the room, snatch a bunch of worms or pinkies quickly like a little pigsnake, and then go back to hide. I haven't been able to watch her eat more that a couple of times...and the fact that I could get pics is a miracle.

[ConcinusMan]

Stop doing that. You're sending the message that the snake is in charge and doesn't need you to get what she needs. Wait she's good and hungry, and in time, she'll come to you and eat from your fingers! (or tongs)

If you keep feeding her from a dish, when you're not there, she won't have to learn to trust you.

[EasternGirl]

But she hides all of the time and if I put tweezers with food in her enclosure, she gets freaked out and hides and won't come out. So how am I supposed to do that?