First retic bite in almost 10 years!

So this morning I'm going through rats to see who'll live to breed, or die to feed. Like any breeder I've got my favorites. So I'm letting two small rats run on my shoulder. One rat as always is sitting on my shoulder cleaning my goatee. Then I put them away, and without thinking about it go to the snake room sanitize my hands and put my juvie retic around my neck while I mist his cage. He sniffs under my chin where my rat was cleaning. Then I feel him tense up for a second, and boom! I guess he though he'd get a snack out of my goatee! It didn't take him long to let go, nor did it hurt much, but boy did I feel stupid. I haven't been bit by a retic, or burmese for almost 10 years! Now I feel like I have to get one of those "Days without an accident at work" signs.

Sabotage rat!

Ain't life grand just when you stop thinking? I got tagged on the chin the other day by STUPIDLY letting someone feed me a taste of roast beef while handling my boa......how could I even THINK she wouldn't smell it?

lol, that's funny. Like you said though "when you stop thinking". That's when all the good stuff happens.

I feel your pain brother.

woah! something like that might make a less confident man shave off his ratty goatee, haha!

Glad none of those teeth nicked a Carotid or you'd have had a rough day!

lol, It'll take more than a bite from "biggie" ( the retic ) to make me shave my goat.