If you don't wash the bite immediately it will burn like fire. Besides the occasional bite, reptile ownership presents two additional challenges. The first is a big public relations problem. All of which can make the snake owner a bit of a social outcast. In fact, we almost never have company.
Snakes eat rats.
Which is kind of disgusting. It's also expensive. Cheaper than Fancy Feast maybe. But a whole lot more than dog chow. And those babies are beginning to have babies of their own.