Emily was only 5 years old.
“After she got bit, she didn’t cry or anything,” said proud father Heath Sobel. “She comes out and she sees me and says ‘Dad, my snake bit me,’ and then she started crying.
“I said what did you do? Did you drop the snake? She said no, ‘I put it around my neck. I didn’t want to hurt the snake. It didn’t bite me on purpose.’”
Emily explained to her visitor, “He bit me because there were rats.” The biting was two years ago, in Emily’s first show, at the annual Pet Pageant in Coney Island. “My friend had pet rats. So my snake bit me right over the vein.”
