Well i had my first crisis with Caesar today. Last night after dinner, he seemed to have somehow gotten his upper lip caught between the rat and his tooth. He bit down right through his upper lip. I gave it the night to correct itself but no way it was going to, It was stuck pretty darn good, I tried using my finger to slide his lip down off his tooth but all i did was catch my fingers on a couple teeth and bleed alittle lol. I then broke the end off a q-tip and used that go up to gum line and then slide his lip down off the tooth. Caesar was pissed and afterwards, he just sat there breathing like he ran a marathon. Then he went in his hide. Thank god i got it but i got a couple nice teeth punctures in my finger from it. They got big teeth. The problems with retics lol. Never had it ever happen with a boa.