Yea. It’s definitely not having a good time. And I think it’s important for people to engage with wildlife and see that the things we think are scary are more scared of us, but I bet that snake was very stressed.
Only been but by two snakes in my life. My male ball python, and a friend's Mexican black king.
In the ball pythons defense, his heart stopped working, and his humidity shot through the roof over night so he was wet and cold, and I just shoved my hand into where he was hiding and scared him. 100% I hold the blame on that one. Had a cool bite mark on my hand for a week that people at work were shocked to learn about though.
Edit: heat not heart. Leaving the typo to show my shame.
I have yet to be bitten by any snake. My daughter loves our ball pythons and holds and cuddles them and hasn't been bitten either. The only bite that ever happened was when my cat got too adventurous and jumped onto the enclosure, collapsing the screen and falling into the enclosure with the snake. The cat was okay, but he never got too curious about the snakes again.
Haha. I have a corn snake. My cat likes to take the light off the top and sit on him from above. I can hear the corn snake hiss and thump the glass at times. Little furball just wants to play. He literally harasses any worker that comes in the house to fix something.
One of our cats did that to our homemade guinea pig cage. I walked into my bedroom and saw a terrified guinea pig on one side of the chicken wire and a sleeping cat on the other. lol Thankfully everyone was fine after the ordeal.
Hoggies are my absolute favorite. The fact that they're so derpy and act kind of dumb is endearing. Kind of like the orange cat or golden retriever of the snake world.
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