I've been struck at defensively by my baby lesser pastel and I've been tagged twice by my four and a half foot lemonblast female. Both times were my own fault, she is extremely food motivated and I smelt of rats the first time and the second time I thought I would be safe reaching into her enclosure to check something without letting her know I wasn't food because she'd just eaten the day before, needless to say she thought my hand was a rat and got me good . Even an adult of that size really can't hurt you much though, she is a puppy dog as long as she knows you aren't lunch.