I've been bitten by every species I've ever owned... but the worse bite was from a grumpy adult imported Buton Retic....... He bit me on the Arm. in the antecubital area
The top jaws sunk into the top... and lower jaws hit my elbow.... he wrapped me up and continued to squeeze very hard..... it took me about 10 minutes to get him off....... I tried using alcohol(which burned me like hell.) waterhose...
everytime we tried uncoiling him he would walk his teeth up and down my arm slicing me up even more....... his top teeth severed the Medial Cubital and Caphalic veins and there was blood everywhere.....
We finally pryed his mouth off using a butterknife and wooden dowel(we opened his mouth and placed a wooden dowel in... he bit on it and I got my arm free.....
I has to apply a tourniquet and get rushed to the ER.... where they eventually had to call a surgeon in to perform microsurgery to reconnect the damage to the bloodvessels...... I had 36 superficial stitches and countless internal ones..... I have some pics that were taken at the ER I will try to find......
I had to take 2 courses of IV Cipro because I started running a fever that night.... and they were concerned I would go into septic shock..... they had my friend go to my house to collect a swab from the inside of the snakes mouth so they could run a sensitivity on it...... The reports showed several possible pathogens in the mouth flora..... Retics have this group of teeth in the top of their mouths.... middle row front that are very long and super sharp.....these did the worst damage....... and the other teeth just sliced up my arm........
Anyway...... I was probably a little complacent at the time... and let my guard down....... you forget sometimes how dangerous these snakes can be..... especially retics...... It wasnt long after that when I realized that retics probably arent the best animals to keep as pets and I stopped working with them all together.... If he wouldve tagged me in the neck, it couldve killed me.......
I love my boas..... even the biggest one probably wont send me to the ER...LOL