hello! i just joined these forums today i've fostered some snakes for a little over a year now and started collecting a few of my own aswell recently. i've been bit by one of my angrier adults a few times and a couple babies.. it's really not bad. mice and rat bites on the other hand DO hurt. your fear of rodents is not unfounded! haha. i own a ton of rats and they're all nice. but my mommy rats bite HARD. i rather take eggs from a snake than babies from a rat... that's my 12 cents... sorry hehe