Ha ha...I found out why Bella escaped speaking of your last post, Emily...she gets up on the rim of the container lid and basically...lies in wait. Cheeky little bugger! In other news...got my first blood-drawing snake bites last night...from...you guessed it...Sadie. How she knows it's feeding time before she should even be able to smell any food is beyond me...but all I can guess is that this biting is a feeding frenzy kind of thing. Could it be that garters are actually so smart that she knows when she sees me moving snakes around that it is feeding time? She was the last to be fed...I had not even opened her enclosure except to remove Cee Cee...I made sure to wash my hands before reaching in for her...and she started attacking me and biting the crap out of me...she had two fingers bleeding and I said...okay, look..."I am not in the mood for getting bit a thousand times"...and had to put a glove on...which she continued to bite...and then hold her up to her feeding dish again and let her eat her worms. Very bizarre. Sammy also attempted to bite me several times. Steve...are you punking me or something? Lol...did you take my scent and train these garters to "always bite Marnie"...before sending them? Lol...Just kidding...I know it was a feeding thing. Both calmed down after dinner time. And yep...garter bites do not hurt very much. No worse than cutting yourself on something. Although...that doesn't mean I was going to let Sadie continue to bite me. I have to think on this and figure out a new feeding plan for her. Of course...I have no camera so I couldn't get bite pics!