I just read through all 10 pages of this thread (Yay being laid off... -_-) and you've said how you're not afraid of being bitten and what not, how you have a hook... But I've read that if you just let the snake bite you and don't react to it, it'll realize that biting does no good. So do you have gloves/arm guards? Maybe if you show him that biting does not get rid of you, he'll calm down. Just what I've observed