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PiedPeddler
at Thu Jul 10 19:40:25 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PiedPeddler ]
You must have seen my post below. Though she's an awesome feeder, I don't think it's a feeding response, as I said she's hit me twice, left a wet spot, no teeth, seems defensive. About 15 yrs ago, I got nailed by my 8 ft. Burmese in a feeding response...in 2 seconds, I had at least 80 1/4" teeth deep in my hand and 3 coils of determined snake constricting my arm, confident it had siezed prey with blood pooring into it's mouth. I had to grab her neck and push my hand into her mouth to release the backward curved teeth, then wrestle her off my arm and throw her back into the cage. As in most of these cases, it was completely my fault...I did not open the cage and let her crawl out partially before attemting to handle her (the normal routine). That time when I opened the cage her head and my hand were in the vicinity of where the rabbits usually were presented. She responded instinctively, I soaked my hand in peroxide and spent a few hours trying to get all the blood stains out of the carpet. Lesson learned...And...Now I keep Balls, not Burms!!!
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RE: may i ask...& a story about a Burmese - PiedPeddler, Thu Jul 10 19:40:25 2003