I just got bit taking my first bp, and first pet snake, out of his shipping packaging XD. In his defense his delivery got delayed by around seven hours so I'm sure he was pretty stressed. He's only a 2015, probably still afraid of getting eaten too. Plus I was all anxious, couldn't sleep last night because I was afraid I would sleep through he door bell, and then I was stressing about when he was going to arrive. He actually let me stroke him a bit. But when I went to pick him up to weigh him he struck me. It didn't hurt at all, startled me pretty bad. I think it might just be instinctual to fear the bite, or a culture thing. Like about the cats, we're pretty used to getting bit by cats and its not really scary when it actually hurts a lot more than a snake bite. Personally, this being my first snake, it'll probably just take time to get desensitized to it. I'm not at all afraid of snakes, but a lot of people around us are and I think that influences us more than we realize.
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