Ginafish
Erotic Bagle
Yesterday I attended the annual Wasatch Reptile Expo down in Salt Lake City, and I gravitated toward LLL Reptiles' booth, which I must say had a lovely variety of reptiles, whereupon I spotted a two-year-old male coastal rosy boa. Now, being interested in rosies for quite a while now, I had been considering purchasing one and was hoping to possibly find one at the show, so I asked if I could hold the little fella.
The gentleman working the table obliged, handing me the tupperware with the rosy in it, but mentioned he was a bit skittish and could be aggressive. For some reason, this did not deter me from wanting to hold the squishy little snake, and so I opened up the container and lifted him out. He was constricting my hand for a short minute but calmed down thereafter, and I asked a few questions about his feeding schedule, the size of mice he was on, about his sheds, etc. and finally went to set him back into his container when he coiled around my one hand tightly yet again, and as I went to uncoil him starting with his tail, he turned around and tagged my right hand!
At first it didn't feel like much, seeing as how rosies have such small teeth, but when he really got a good bite in mostly all I felt was an immense pressure, which was shocking coming from such a small creature. Anyway, he was latched on fairly tight and I noticed my hand starting to bleed a little, and calmly asked if the gentleman would help unlatch the rosy; he put one hand on the snake's head, said, "This might hurt for a second." and proceeded to simply pull the snake's head backward from my hand, whereupon the teeth (being recurved, haha) tore skin and made the bleeding worse.
Finally, we set the little rosy back in his container and I stared at him a bit longer, laughing to myself about the bite and how a few people were freaking out about it. Though I'm sure some might like a challenging snake like that one, I myself was in the market for a more mellow fellow, and so thanked them and was on my way to another booth. Regardless, I probably should've heeded the warning about this rosy when the guy told me, but sometimes I'm just silly like that.
Here are some shots of my first ever snake bite!
The gentleman working the table obliged, handing me the tupperware with the rosy in it, but mentioned he was a bit skittish and could be aggressive. For some reason, this did not deter me from wanting to hold the squishy little snake, and so I opened up the container and lifted him out. He was constricting my hand for a short minute but calmed down thereafter, and I asked a few questions about his feeding schedule, the size of mice he was on, about his sheds, etc. and finally went to set him back into his container when he coiled around my one hand tightly yet again, and as I went to uncoil him starting with his tail, he turned around and tagged my right hand!
At first it didn't feel like much, seeing as how rosies have such small teeth, but when he really got a good bite in mostly all I felt was an immense pressure, which was shocking coming from such a small creature. Anyway, he was latched on fairly tight and I noticed my hand starting to bleed a little, and calmly asked if the gentleman would help unlatch the rosy; he put one hand on the snake's head, said, "This might hurt for a second." and proceeded to simply pull the snake's head backward from my hand, whereupon the teeth (being recurved, haha) tore skin and made the bleeding worse.
Finally, we set the little rosy back in his container and I stared at him a bit longer, laughing to myself about the bite and how a few people were freaking out about it. Though I'm sure some might like a challenging snake like that one, I myself was in the market for a more mellow fellow, and so thanked them and was on my way to another booth. Regardless, I probably should've heeded the warning about this rosy when the guy told me, but sometimes I'm just silly like that.
Here are some shots of my first ever snake bite!
