Where my friend (BcMyori--she's new to the site) and I volunteer we do deal with sick snakes with RIs because we got a lot of them from the Texas seizure http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...Exotics+seized. Would anything happen to us if a snake with an RI would bite either one of us? We were just curious to know this question because we don't want to stress the snakes out when we have them secured by the head in case they were to bite us. We just want to handle them in calm manner without having to grab their head. From being there I've noticed if you handle a snake with respect, your not scared when you handle it, and if you handle it gently it will feel no threat towards you, even if the snake is aggressive.

All the baby albino Burms we got are all aggressive and hissers and have no problem biting if they feel threatend. One of the volunteers handled one of the Burms and it didn't feel threatend enough to turn around and bite or go into a defensive posture.