On Wednesday a girl I know through work gave me her 6 year old normal female that she'd grown bored with. She said it had a shedding problem, but when I saw the tank I wasn't worried...open screen, heat lamps, single half-log hide, no temp/humidity gauges. This snake is between 3 and 4 feet long and only weighs 1,056g....she's been feeding it one small-small rat every 3-4 weeks. I'm confident that in better conditions and with regular feeding, she'll put on weight just fine.

So today I opened the tub to show her to my bf, and when I reached down to pull the newspaper away, she latched onto my wrist. I have two neat horseshoes of punctures, but the best one was at the apex of the maxillary impression, where she punctured a vein. I have a blue hematoma 3/8" wide! I just stood there for what seemed like ages waiting for her to let go, but eventually it started to throb, so I carried her into the bathroom and ran cold water on her. That didn't work either though, so finally I had my bf fetch the brandy and splash a little on her head, whereupon she immediately let go and made "yuck" faces.

Obligatory pictures, taken with lousy but readily available webcam.

The bitten:



The biter: