well if ya have 40 of them you have to kind of expect to get bit sooner or later it was a question more geared towards those of us that only have a few i guess. As for my friends snakes, he's a herpatologist, he's also the one that told me when i first got my snake (i made him go with me to check it before i bought it) not to feed it in it's cage and in the long run it'll be more easier to handle .. maybe that isnt the right phrasing but in general it's what he meant.