one time to me. I'm holding the snake and then I laid it down on the bed. While it was on the bed I see the tail lifting in the air a lil, and I could just feel it like I knew he was about to let it go. I got him right to his water bowl and just let him go in that, then cleaned everything out. If I hadn't have caught that tho, I would've had a nasty bed with a very unhappy wife.