Our Lucy has had similar experiences. I have avoided her strikes easily though. We feed live ( she was not interested in F/T at all). SHe started on tiny pinkies and is now eating halfgrown mice and rat pinkies, once in a while a gerbil or hamster fuzzy, depending on what the pet store has in stock. We bought a small 5 gal. plastic tank and line it with a paper towel. We place our prey in it first, then (after washing off the prey scent from our hands!!-very important!!) we place Lucy in the tank second. THis was she does not associate our hands with food, nor her own cage with food either. She strikes within seconds on the first kill, then up to a few minutes for the 2nd prey (only if the first is very small). Once we had 2 mice huddled together, she bit one behind the head and had BOTH of them wrapped up in her coils. She killed both, but I had to tie a string to the 2nd mouse's tail and wiggle it around before she'd eat it. After She's done we gently take her out and put her back in her tank. She's never regurgitated either.