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General Herp Talk Can't figure out where to post down in the other discussion forums? Too many options and too complicated? Well post your herp related messages here and to heck with it. |
05-14-2018, 03:30 PM
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#211
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Really an earth snake
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05-23-2018, 09:19 PM
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#212
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a garter snake in the back yard.
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05-23-2018, 10:45 PM
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Gosh, is this a memory test or what? I've known hundreds of snakes, I guess, in about 33 years of keeping & breeding some; most nips are avoidable, while those that aren't are mostly not memorable. The silliest ones are when hatchling corn snakes try to bite, but their teeth aren't long enough for me to even feel. It's like being pecked by sunflower seeds, lol. By the time I can feel their teeth, they have no desire to bite.
Rat snakes get a little more notice, but not much...
In a reptile shop many years ago, the owner proceeded to show me a young adult albino cal king (a potential mate for my female), but as he opened the shoebox it was in, it sprang out & bit the bridge of my nose, which then bled profusely as there isn't any "padding" there. It made for great customer relations, me walking around the store with a bloody kleenex held to my nose & joking about being the "future owner of the place" (an empty threat of lawsuit- joking!). I didn't actually hold it against the snake either, he went home with me, calmed down (in suitably-sized cage) and made nice hatchlings with my female. (A snake that size did NOT belong in a shoebox, & he was obviously hoping it was dinner time...and maybe it was, but I was a big let-down.)
I've kept mostly snakes, but also some lizards: never had any bites from lizards, not even the tokay geckos, several of which I could hold, nor the male bearded dragon I took in, who displayed fiercely at his own image in a mirror, but liked to snuggle on my shoulder.
Took in an unwanted yearling BCI many years ago, after she kept being re-homed for biting everyone. She even scared off a vet tech who kept snakes-? When she wanted to bite me (at first, in fear & self-defense) I didn't give her a chance, & after I worked with her for a month or two, she never once tried to bite me, not in all the 12 years she was my snake.
I think in some way most of us have earned the bites we get...by rushing a shy snake, by confusing them at feeding time, etc...silly & preventable things. Some of us are more trainable than others, lol.
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05-23-2018, 10:56 PM
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#214
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I noticed in reading over this thread that many haven't stuck to the topic of only what herps have bitten us, so I'll add that my worse bite was from a male mouse that was trying to kill his rival & I unwisely tried to break up the fight. Got a really nice throbbing infection, a bit scary but turned out ok finally. I'll take snake bites any day.
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08-04-2018, 04:31 PM
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I have been bitten by Texas Rat snake males, Pacific Aliigator lizards (females chomp down once, males chomp down again and again, that how you tell their sex), Albigularis monitor and Water monitor. That is the worst. Their teeth are like tigers and they bite and shake.
Oh, and bitten by a Texas Coral snake once. It was not a dry bite either. My arm felt like it was in a fire for 24 hours but obviously, I did not die. Didn't go to the ER. Thats because I am a nurse and I didn't want the staff to know what an idiot I am.
It was in my front yard. I do not kill venomous snakes, I capture and relocate. I have relocated many Copperheards and a couple of Timber Rattlers (highly neurotoxic, thats exciting). But here was this 2' coral and it might have bitten my dog. It was rapidly disappearing into the pine needles so I tailed it. Stupid I know. I had never tailed a snake, I hold their heads down with a stick and pick them up behind the jaws.
Didn't have time to get a stick so I tailed it. That little bugger climbed right up his own body and tagged me on the thumb. My veterinarian friend was visiting that day so I asked him Do you know CPR? He said yea for dogs. So I figured I would just stay home from the ER. If I went into respiratory arrest he would have called 911.
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08-04-2018, 04:40 PM
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Oh I forgot the Cuban Anoles. I worked at a pet shop for a while in Woodland Hills California. We had Cuban Anoles - those are biting little SOBs. So the other girl and I would hold them up so they would bite our ear lobes. Then we wore them like ear rings, they hang on for hours. This was before piercings and tatoos. Reptile people are such fun.
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08-04-2018, 04:51 PM
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#217
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OK there was the Texas Spiney lizard that fell out of the sky.
I was out in West Texas by a spring fed lake (yes there are such things there). A pair of Zone Tailed hawks where up flying up high with their young of the year. The big female dropped a lizard she had in her claws to the hawklet down below so it could practice getting food. The hawklet flipped over in the air to grab the lizard but missed. I saw the lizard fall from the sky into the lake with a splash. I saw it appear to sink and then surface, struggling. So I dove in and swam out to it, put it on my chest and backstroked to the shore. The lizard was cold and exhausted, not hurt too bad though, so I put it in a picnic basket in the sun. A while later I reached in to see how it was doing. That bugger bit my hand and hung on. I let it go in some prickly pear cactus.
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08-04-2018, 05:07 PM
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#218
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Uh.... the Tiger Salamander I helped cross the road....
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08-19-2018, 10:47 AM
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#219
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So far not many.
Ball python
Corn
Garter
Boa
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08-23-2018, 05:07 AM
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#220
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8 ft American alligator
Yearling Morlet Croc
Spiny tail Iguana (probably the worst bite lol after a year I still have no feeling in my thumb)
Argentine B&W Tegu
Tokay Gecko
Cuban Knight Anole
Green Anaconda
Yellow Anaconda
Retic
Burm
Ball Pythons
Cali king
Florida King
Yellow Rat
Red Rat
Black Racer
Mata Mata (not really bit but sucked in lol)
Soft shell turtle
I'm sure there are more but that's all I can think of for now..
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