Lost confident around my Spider Ball Python

[rayray92]

Hey everyone

My 3 year old spider ball python Nagini, is the most docile snake that i have ever kept, she used to just hang round my dads neck and was very curious and would explore everywhere, and i was holding her today an she start rubbing her nose on my fingers and i thought nothing of it, so i carried on watching tv, then i felt a sharp pain on the tip of my middle finger and she had clamped down on it and wouldn't let go, and it hurt quite abit so i went out in the kitchen and submerged her in water and slowly prided her off my finger and my dad put her back in the viv.

So we fed her after, thinking she may have been hungry and she took the food , so obviously she must have been hungry and mistook my finger for food.

Now i'm gonna be a little nervous about holding her as its the first time i've been bitten by a snake and they have held on.

Any tips? or do i just have to keep holding her and slowly get used to her again?

thanks everyone