diff --git a/treq/response.py b/treq/response.py
index cf32999..5f3b05b 100644
--- a/treq/response.py
+++ b/treq/response.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ class Response(object):
         self.headers = CaseInsensitiveDict((
             (header, ', '.join(values)) for header, values in
             response.headers.getAllRawHeaders()))
-        self.encoding = get_encoding_from_headers(self.headers)
+        self.encoding = get_encoding_from_headers(self.headers) or "latin-1"
 
     @property
     def content(self):
diff --git a/treq/test/test_treq_integration.py b/treq/test/test_treq_integration.py
index c9dbfbc..6bdef27 100644
--- a/treq/test/test_treq_integration.py
+++ b/treq/test/test_treq_integration.py
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ def print_response(response):
         print
         print '---'
         print response.status_code
-        text = yield response.text
-        print text
+        if response._method == "GET":
+            text = yield response.text
+            print text
         print '---'