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Yep, nonvenomous snake bites are likely to happen under pretty much the same circumstances, except that people tend to be a lot more casual with nonvenomous species. So we can get a lot of insight from working with nonvenomous snakes or talking to people who work with them.
I'd prefer if the poll be answered only by people who are handling their snakes in the way that venomous are normally handled, eg, taking significant precautions against not being bitten. Otherwise the results are going to be skewed. So if you have a horrible Amazon tree boa that you always handle with hooks and gloves, and you're bitten because you used a hook that was too short, that would be good data because a tree viper could have done the same thing under the same circumstances. If you have your ball python in your lap and it bites you, that isn't a circumstance that a venomous keeper is likely to be in so it's not relevant to us.
This is the venomous discussion forum and the poll is to benefit venomous keepers. I think we can get some good data from nasty non-vens, but only if the handling protocols being used are the same as for venomous.
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