I guess some lessons I have to learn the hard way...

[Kinra]

Doing anything different than normal when working with a hungry boa is a bad idea...

I got my first boa bite about 20 minutes ago by making a very stupid mistake. I didn't use hand sanitizer before reaching in as I always do and instead of just lifting the hide as I always do I paused for some reason, which was when she bit me. Yeah, I feel pretty stupid right now.

I feel bad for my thumb. I burnt it yesterday on a soldering iron and now I got a snake bite on top of that.

[Jason Bowden]

If you just reach in there, you're gonna get bit some more!

Maybe get a piece of styro-foam to put in your boa's face to let it know that it's not getting fed. It won't draw blood(LOL) if the snake bites a piece of styro-foam or a roll of paper towels!.

[llovelace]

lol, you poor thing, that's like adding insult to injury.

[Kinra]

I've had her several months now and this the first time she's bit me. I normally don't have a problem just reaching in, but pausing with my finger near her mouth was a dumb idea. I still don't know what made me pause.

She's just a little worm right now, but I am going to be hook training her soon. It's hard to do much with her now because of the hide she is using. She really likes the repti-shelters and you basically have to lift it to get to her, which is what I was doing when I got bit. She'll out grow the opening eventually so it will have to go at some point.

[llovelace]

yeah, when you see her dragging the hide around it'll be time for a new one, I'm warming rats right now, and have 2 1/2 yr old rtb who is notorious for tagging whatever gets near her

[Jason Bowden]

If you just reach in, it won't be your last bite!

[Alexandra V]

I generally tend to just reach in with my boa, and the only time she has ever bitten me was while she was already out of the cage LOL. But I do have a hook so if I see her eyeing my hand when I'm going to get her, I tend to chicken out and use the hook to get her out

[lasweetswan]

lol, you poor thing, that's like adding insult to injury.

I LOL-ed too. Poor thumb.

[aldebono]

Paper towel roll is the best anti bite tool ever.

[xFenrir]

My girl struck at me for the first time yesterday; it was feeding day but instead of opening her tank and then picking up the rat, I was holding the rat when I opened the lid of her tub. She made a grab for the rat and I pulled back, and I guess she thought I was taking it away so she shot out of her tub! Missed my hand luckily. Lesson learned to never open the tub with food in my hand again!