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View Poll Results: What best describes your personal experience??
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Never been bitten. I tend to keep more placid species IE Cornsnakes.
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Have been nipped at a few times from my baby Python or Boa.
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I get hit every freaking day by something, whether I'm cleaning cages or just free handling for 'special time'.
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I've been hit hundreds of times from just about everything!! Kings, Milks, Pythons, Boas, but nothing too severe.
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I was at the wrong end (the recipient) of an extremely painful bite from a very large constrictor.
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I use extreme caution when handling any of my reptiles, and have not been bit by anything other than my neighbors dog, my house cat, or my neighbor. What's all this nonsense about Reptile bites???
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03-26-2009, 08:50 PM
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Ok, I KNOW that one had to hurt worse than mine. I also know, from experience, that shoot yeah they have that much bite force! Equate it, on a much smaller level, of the force behind a gator's jaw--same theory.
I feel for ya, Richard. That's gonna be a little sore for a while.
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03-29-2009, 01:31 PM
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Silly little corn snake....
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03-29-2009, 01:38 PM
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hahaha David! He's determined!
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03-30-2009, 01:36 AM
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I guess I'm lucky in that I've never been nailed by my snakes even when by all rights I should've been (IE holding mice then my kingsnake or my RT boa.) I was nailed numerous times by my Colombian Gold and Black Tegu during taming and he'll still nail me if I move too fast. I got more scars that week then the rest of my life combined  . Also my box turtle is very protective of his food. Worst bite hands down I hate to say came from my Chilean Rose haired Tarantula. I had her out and she was her usual calm self. So slowly that I wasn't even sure what she was doing her fangs came out. Then she scraped them across my hand a couple times until they caught on a wrinkle. And then she dug in... Imagine very carefully trying to pry a spider with a six in diameter leg span's fangs out of your hand with a pencil while saying, very calmly "Sweetheart, Its not nice to bite." Also trying not to hurt the spider. Also not a dry bite.
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03-30-2009, 02:18 AM
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oh also I thought I should add for most painful bite came from Sammy, my cousin's 5 ft American Alligator. Sammy was just cranky that day. 
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03-30-2009, 03:53 PM
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#326
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TattooLost
He jumped up and aimed for my thumb instead of the petal, latching on.
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Woah, now that looks like it *hurt*! I'll take a boa bite over that any day. ouch! (and that video was great! Robbie sure is a handfull)
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03-30-2009, 08:06 PM
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#327
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IMHO
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Originally Posted by DAND
Silly little corn snake....
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That pic is just ADORABLE!
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04-08-2009, 09:46 PM
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I've been bit plenty of times. Mostly a feeding response by Ball pythons. Once a Columbian Tegu thought I was in her house and I got a frightening scrape as I dodged that one. I have a couple horny male Western Hognose, beleive it or not, that get crazy sometimes and lunge it's kinda funny really. But I've taken bites from my Blood pythons that are noteworthy. When my Borneo, Cain, was a juvy he was like a machine gun, just bite after bite of pure tenacity. My wife has better scars than me.
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04-19-2009, 02:59 AM
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Bitten by almost everything
Everything except venomous has gotten me.
Most painful bites were from Green Anacondas, holding and grinding and chewing.
Most annoying bites are from anything small that refuses to stop striking.
Scariest, 18' overweight Burmese Python on the ankle (with boots) not knowing how far it would go to finish the job.
Most fun, probably small gators, 3-4 feet. Doesn't hurt too bad, and they are so determined.
Second most painful, 4' Nile Monitor jumping and grabbing my thumb and rolling like a Croc while hanging.
Most recent, baby House Snakes.
Most recent that hurt and bled, a very unhappy adult WC Dotted House Snake.
Bites I feared most and avoided at all costs were of course venomous, and Alligator Snapping turtles.
Not a reptile, but adult Lynx bites HURT.
I'd love to make a full list of every species I can remember biting me, but it would take hours. All that said, I can honestly say that the animal I have been bitten by the most, more than any other and with more aggression... The one who has caused the most bleeding and smallest reaction from witnesses...Without a doubt...
COCKER SPANIELS. Shelter work had its ups and downs.
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04-19-2009, 03:20 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lamprophis
Everything except venomous has gotten me.
Most painful bites were from Green Anacondas, holding and grinding and chewing.
Most annoying bites are from anything small that refuses to stop striking.
Scariest, 18' overweight Burmese Python on the ankle (with boots) not knowing how far it would go to finish the job.
Most fun, probably small gators, 3-4 feet. Doesn't hurt too bad, and they are so determined.
Second most painful, 4' Nile Monitor jumping and grabbing my thumb and rolling like a Croc while hanging.
Most recent, baby House Snakes.
Most recent that hurt and bled, a very unhappy adult WC Dotted House Snake.
Bites I feared most and avoided at all costs were of course venomous, and Alligator Snapping turtles.
Not a reptile, but adult Lynx bites HURT.
I'd love to make a full list of every species I can remember biting me, but it would take hours. All that said, I can honestly say that the animal I have been bitten by the most, more than any other and with more aggression... The one who has caused the most bleeding and smallest reaction from witnesses...Without a doubt...
COCKER SPANIELS. Shelter work had its ups and downs.
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 Finally! Someone I can sympathize with!
I have to agree on the Cocker Spaniel part. But I also have to add Shih Tsu and Chihuahua. Those little suckers may not be very big, but man are they ever persistent... sort of like that baby corn... 
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