So I'm over at a friends house this weekend, and she has a pet gerbil. I joke with her saying my pet would win a fight with her pet....then mine would eat hers to boot. I then proceeded to attempt to handle the gerbil and found out why it would be incredibly stupid for anyone to attempt to feed a live gerbil to their bp.
I put my hand in the cage. The gerbil came up to my finger, and starts biting it. I retracted my hand, and the thing came after me. It then bit my wrist, and drew a little bit of blood.
Appearantly they just walk up to things, and bite them just to check them out. I could imagine it doing that to my snake's back or neck.
Just giving a heads up, and be careful if you ever are forced to offer a gerbil to a stubborn eater.
