Thumb is friend, not food...

[cantthinkofone]

Just received a warning nip from a snake I least expected. I recieved the bite from my 4 ft female RTB named rose. I was feeding her like normal when I dropped the mouse. Trying to be nice I was using the forceps to clean off the rat when she snuck up and nipped my thumb. It bled for two seconds then stopped itself. She ate by the way just in case you were wondering

 

[Malhavoc's]

Just received a warning nip from a snake I least expected. I recieved the bite from my 4 ft female RTB named rose. I was feeding her like normal when I dropped the mouse. Trying to be nice I was using the forceps to clean off the rat when she snuck up and nipped my thumb. It bled for two seconds then stopped itself. She ate by the way just in case you were wondering

she ate it? the thumb or the mouse?

 

[cantthinkofone]

The mouse lol. She was hungry and about to shed so she was less then pleased with the "sky gods" hand in her cage

 

[Galapoheros]

I had one of those before I could drive back in the late 1970's, it bit me on the back of the arm, a lot of blood. I said to my mom, "I don't want this anymore, can we take it back?" I got half my money back for the snake I had made from a summer job. I just never cared to get another boa after that, cool snakes though, just turned out not to be my thing ...boas that is. Have you had that snake very long?

 

[cantthinkofone]

Yeah since it was like 4-5 weeks old (might have been even younger) its like 3-4 feet now :O they grow quick. Sorry you had that experience mines just a little darling and I've never seen this behavior but like I said it was probably the wrong time of the month to put my hand it their

 

[Galapoheros]

You've had it longer than I guessed. I thought mine was mello also, I picked it up often, maybe too often..so goes the bite I guess. I couldn't see any warning sign a strike was about to occur. It was the unpredictability of that boa that made me decide to sell it back to the store, just lost interest after that. Yeah, prob just a bad experience that stuck in my head. After that I've stuck to king-snakes and milksnakes.., but still interested in the rosy and rubber boas. I don't have any snakes atm though.