When a snake locks on, it means it's hungry. If aggressive, they strike & release. She'd rescued it the day before so it cldve been v hungry
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If it had locked on anywhere else , the solution would have been simple - hold that bit of your body under water till it lets go.
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Have hold of it behind the head whilst doing this so you can keep it from locking on again. Put in tank. Feed it.
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It doesn't hurt much when they lock on even when it's a boa - very fine, sharp teeth like needles. But on her face? What could they do?

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And it's nonsense to say it was strangling her. It was 1.7 meters so a male or juvenile female - couldn't strangle a rabbit.
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But they're difficult to unlock when locked on coz their teeth slant backwards. Had this problem with a Black Mexican King snake.
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I didn't realise how much it needed to eat so it locked onto me 3 times - my fingers disappearing into it. Had to hold it in sink.
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Very thin so cld only have baby mice but I didn't realise he needed 3 at a time. Well, he taught me. His name was Anarchy.
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Yes. If only she'd fed it at once, it would probably have been fine when she'd next picked it up.
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It probably didn't suffer tho.Their sensing of pain is much delayed. If they cut off its head fairly quickly it would have been dead b4 pain
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That's why feeding them live prey can be cruel to them as well as to prey. If not hungry,a boa can let a rat eat part of it coz pain delayed
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Yup. We always had prey-eating reptiles growing up. Was taught to remove feeder critters from tank if not eaten within an hour or two.
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I couldn't feed live prey anyway. Unnecessary suffering. I 'walk' the rat past my boa's nose to get his pouncing instincts going.
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