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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 364579" data-attributes="member: 12827">My pet Ball Python &quot;Slinky&quot;. She lived for 21 years before finally giving up the ghost. She was about 5' long, which is about as big as they will get in captivity. In all of those years she only bit me once and it was a case of mistaken identity. She was extremely docile.&nbsp; Female Ball Pythons go into semi-hibernation in the winter time, whereas males eat all year long. I am not a herpetologist so I don't know why, She was just coming out of that hibernation and the rat I tossed into her cage was running for its life (who could blame it?). I grabbed it and put it near her. Pythons do not see well, rather relying on their row of heat sensing pits around her mouth (easily seen in the image). Apparently my hand had a bigger heat signature than the rat so she went for my hand. She left some teeth marks in the &quot;V&quot; between my thumb and index figure but no biggie. A little bit of hydrogen peroxide and I was good to go.She eventually chased down the rat and got it!<a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/stm58/media/Slinky.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/stm58/Slinky.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 364579, member: 12827"] My pet Ball Python "Slinky". She lived for 21 years before finally giving up the ghost. She was about 5' long, which is about as big as they will get in captivity. In all of those years she only bit me once and it was a case of mistaken identity. She was extremely docile. Female Ball Pythons go into semi-hibernation in the winter time, whereas males eat all year long. I am not a herpetologist so I don't know why, She was just coming out of that hibernation and the rat I tossed into her cage was running for its life (who could blame it?). I grabbed it and put it near her. Pythons do not see well, rather relying on their row of heat sensing pits around her mouth (easily seen in the image). Apparently my hand had a bigger heat signature than the rat so she went for my hand. She left some teeth marks in the "V" between my thumb and index figure but no biggie. A little bit of hydrogen peroxide and I was good to go.She eventually chased down the rat and got it! [URL="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/stm58/media/Slinky.jpg.html"][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v138/stm58/Slinky.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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