How bad is a bite from a full grown corn snake?

I know it probably doesn't need to be said to a lot of people, but quite likely there are some that should heed some offered advice. NEVER bring any snake close enough to your face where they could strike and snag a tooth or three in your eyeball. That could take what would normally be a laughing matter and put it directly in the category of SERIOUS INJURY. Even if it is ONLY a corn snake.

So a word to the wise...

Originally Posted by akane

Apparently a few drops of hard alcohol makes them let go immediately. No one listed alcohol on items required for keeping snakes but if you've got a big snake on you that isn't letting go and you can't drag the thing to the sink to hold it under water...

I did have a friend who kept retics and always kept a spray bottle of vodka on hand for emergencies (like people use a hairdresser's spray bottle of water to train a cat). Not sure if he ever had to use it, but it beats rooting through the cocktail cabinet with a 20-foot snake clamped to your hand.... But again, this is overkill in the case of a corn snake, just to add to the general discussion.

Actually, we used alcohol for some adult corns that were being stubborn at releasing a hand or finger that they snagged. But what we did (usually the workers here) was to just dip a Q-tip in alcohol, and just rub it against the edge of the snakes' mouth. That was usually enough to do it.

The guys working for us had a system of putting a little skull and crossbones image on the cages with the snakes with the most ferocious feed response. Just as a reminder for themselves, I guess.

I normally just worked with the baby snakes, and what I found was that I needed to tend to them in two stages. First pass was to clean out their containers and give them fresh water. Then the second pass was to go through and feed them. They soon learned that they weren't going to be fed until the second time they saw me, so that completely killed the feed response on that first time through them. But the second time around, they were READY!

Been bit once, felt like a papercut. Guy I know got his hand scratched up handling a breeding pair though, looked like he fought a cat.

Totally just necro'd this thread, sorry guys.