Vicki Montgomery asked: ... so how badly have YOU been bitten... Very badly..by my 2 abused pet shop rescues, Dracula and Vampira...(Dracula has since been renamed Smudge, although he is still a world class biter.) Their biting was so severe I had to go the "under the water route" to make them let go, too. I finally turned to our "biting expert" TLE who said the first thing to do was protect myself. So, since I could not walk around the house with them loose without being bitten half to death, I donned boots (snow boots-the only thing I had as I live in NY) and heavy winter gloves. Now it was summer, and a hot summer at that, so there I was, wearing snow boots, heavy gloves and nothing else, walking around the house while the little biters did their best to get to me. It was not a pretty sight ;-). It is now 3 years later and both have almost outgrown the biting. Now they are just biters of opportunity :-). Francine Prager [Posted in FML issue 5015]