Thanks a lot Lynn, they do seem to have gloves.

It also just occurred to me that as a boa, she could be an IBD carrier. I've read up intensively on it in balls, but not so much boas. I know some of them can carry it asymptomatically for some time...(forever?). Is there ever a point at which you can definitively say "this snake has been asymptomatic for X months/years and therefore is not a carrier"?

She would be in a different room from the balls, and obviously would be handled last, normal quarantine protocol, etc, but still....is it a potential risk? As much as I'd like to help this girl out, I'm not willing to risk my existing kids for it, and IBD sounds like a horribly devastating thing to experience.