Quote Originally Posted by loonunit View Post
This happens a lot with red tails, I gather, they bite and suddenly the owner is afraid of the pet.

I got chewed on a lot by my first baby ball python. Not a great first snake in some ways, but when I finally got my first good good latch-and-wrap bite from a friend's adult ball python, it didn't really phase me. But my poor friend! Her snake didn't even bite her, and you could tell she was still pretty freaked out a month or two later.

Was this a latch-and-wrap? Or just a painful feeding-type strike, but the snake let go immediately?
From the way she described what happened it sounds like a mistaken identity strike the snake felt something warm and went for it.
That is my thought because she let go immediately.
It just seems some people have a hard time the only snake bites that got my attention where my Burmese I had one that got me that required 3 stitches still didn't give up on her.
But I did finally get tired of the having to have 2 people to deal with them so I found them better homes.