My friend had a rescued Python that was burnt all over it's body because of a heating pad. If they knew when to get off of the heat, it wouldn't have gotten burnt. It as supposedly at the temperature it was supposed to be for that snake, but it fell asleep and got burnt. Unfortunately for my friend the snake had died a couple months after she had rescued it. But I also don't have much knowledge of snakes. Especially non-garter snakes.