Well I now have another two Obscurus a male and another female and they are doing wonderfully.

I thought I would do an update as I just received my first ever Garter bite, not from my obscurus but from this girl.DSCN6407.jpg

I don't know why but she really doesn't like me. Feeding her tonight she escaped me while thrashing around my boys came hurtling upstairs and distracted me. Primrose (the snake) took her chance and went for it, she was off. I called hubby to come help me catch her which we managed quite easily as she decided to go behind some draws. As I had a good hold of her, or what I thought was a good hold she managed to just swing her head round enough to latch onto my thumb with half her mouth. I wish I had got hubby to take a photo but he had gone white and was panicking. I thought never mind she'll let go in a sec, I was wrong she held her ground. Ok so maybe a couple of minutes, nope. So I'm now wondering how I get her off. I remember being told to slowly push their head forward so as to disengage them but this didn't work. Again I had heard about submerging their heads in water this too did nothing. Running tap, nothing. I'm sat on the bed with a panicked hubby looking at her as she looks at me. I had no choice but to pull her off. I did it gently and she was free and placed in her feeding tub. I saw to my thumb and went back a few minutes later concerned she would be too stressed to eat. Again I was wrong she had a nice full belly and was looking to get out. She's now in her home hopefully tired from her little adventure.

So what is the best way to release a Garters bite ? She will get me again