Snakes bite for 2 reasons and only 2 reasons. Reason 1 is to eat, reason 2 is in defense. If you can rule out the feeding response then it would have to be #2. It is hard to say what would have set him off, it could have been anything. My thought is that you put him on the floor, then he saw this huge giant reach down and grab him and just bit in defense.

It is nice to hear that you didn't think it hurt too much. Just don't let this keep you from handling him and keeping his cage clean. I have a few snakes that I got for free due to the owner becoming scared of their snake. I have a female BP that I got because it was getting big, and it hissed once.

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• Boa bit me today - bigd2832, Fri Sep 29 11:40:09 2006
• suck it up lol n/p - FRoberts, Fri Sep 29 13:08:15 2006
• RE: suck it up lol n/p - bigd2832, Fri Sep 29 13:12:16 2006
• RE: suck it up lol n/p - begunwithaletter, Fri Sep 29 13:42:28 2006
• RE: suck it up lol n/p - bigd2832, Fri Sep 29 13:48:20 2006
• RE: Boa bit me today - tcdrover, Fri Sep 29 13:58:07 2006
• RE: Boa bit me today - bigd2832, Fri Sep 29 14:01:47 2006
• RE: Boa bit me today - garweft, Fri Sep 29 17:17:28 2006
• RE: Boa bit me today - metachrosis, Fri Sep 29 20:51:26 2006
• RE: Boa bit me today - Djinn, Fri Sep 29 16:38:28 2006
• MAYBE, you woke it up. - dmac, Fri Sep 29 20:28:50 2006
• RE: MAYBE, you woke it up. - bigd2832, Fri Sep 29 20:31:01 2006
• RE: MAYBE, you woke it up. - dmac, Fri Sep 29 20:47:31 2006
• Just because the snake ate recently . . - slithering_serpents, Fri Sep 29 21:58:33 2006
• RE: Boa bit me today - toothybugs, Mon Oct 2 09:38:18 2006