I think it's funny that you're suggesting I use "super-long & well padded fireplace gloves" with a snake that has a head smaller than the tip of my pinkie. It just goes to show how ferocious Antaresia can be, but a least he's not a retic. With apologies to all the retic lovers out there, but every time Wiggles bites me I think, "Thank God he's not a retic."