You're right, it did bleed a little bit, which was wierd cuz it was hooked through the lower lip, inside of teeth out. It looks worse in the pics cuz you know how blood is in water, but we waited to check it out and it stopped bleeding pretty quickly, it wasn't bad at all, my finger was worse, it was bleeding too from an impailment from the worm threader into the side of my finger from tying that one up. But that thing was full of vigor and took off just fine, without any more bleeding, no problem.