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Bite Club

What best describes your personal experience??

  • Never been bitten. I tend to keep more placid species IE Cornsnakes.

    Votes: 52 9.5%

  • Have been nipped at a few times from my baby Python or Boa.

    Votes: 212 38.8%

  • I get hit every freaking day by something, whether I'm cleaning cages or just free handling for 'spe

    Votes: 33 6.0%

  • I've been hit hundreds of times from just about everything!! Kings, Milks, Pythons, Boas, but nothin

    Votes: 100 18.3%

  • I was at the wrong end (the recipient) of an extremely painful bite from a very large constrictor.

    Votes: 91 16.6%

  • I use extreme caution when handling any of my reptiles, and have not been bit by anything other than

    Votes: 59 10.8%
  • Total voters
    547
OK, the visual is just too funny--and I don't even know what you look like! I will tell you that HOT WATER only makes them tighten their grip...so, yeah, I'm thinking of biting the "b" back next time.
Ooh, did I say 'next time?' Dang, I must be a glutton for punishment!
 
Don't use rubbing alcohol! haha use the vodka on the snake to get her to release, then a couple shots for yourself afterwards to help calm down. lol
 
Photos of the aftermath

Gee, it doesn't look nearly as bad once ya clean it up...but she managed to get a bit of the fleshy part.

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she clamped down on the knuckle

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I think what hurts most is the bones in the middle & ring fingers that she coiled up on!

...the BAD GIRL herself (she's the bigger one in the photo)!

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Troi, Her name is "Bad Girl" after all, what'd you expect a snake named that to do kiss ya??? lol
 
Tiger Lilly said:
I will tell you that HOT WATER only makes them tighten their grip...so, yeah, I'm thinking of biting the "b" back next time.
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I have never had that happen. It has always worked well for me to use hot water. Even back when I was dealing with burms and I had two lock up on each other.

I have heard of using alcohol but I don't drink and don't condone reptiles that do. ;)
 
oh no...

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Troi, Her name is "Bad Girl" after all, what'd you expect a snake named that to do kiss ya??? lol
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BAD GIRL is her name NOW--BEFORE the bite it was Jungle Jane. I try to name them according to something that "fits." Guess she didn't like that one!
You're such a funny guy! :rofl:
 
Tiger Lilly said:
BAD GIRL is her name NOW--BEFORE the bite it was Jungle Jane. I try to name them according to something that "fits." Guess she didn't like that one!
You're such a funny guy! :rofl:
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Yeah, Like a box of rocks eh?




I don't drink and don't condone reptiles that do.
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Dave, I don't drink either but I don't mind if any of my animals do as long as if "they're driving and they don't drink or they're drinking and they don't drive..."
 
Ha!

ForkedTung said:
Yeah, Like a box of rocks eh?


I laugh at rocks...is that so wrong?


Dave, I don't drink either but I don't mind if any of my animals do as long as if "they're driving and they don't drink or they're drinking and they don't drive..."
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So how do you feel about underage reptile drinking? It's not a huge problem here, but I live in a podunk county!
 
I've stopped counting antsy hatchling bites. My worst strike was while I was rehabbing a ball. He'd been fed aggressively by his former owner (in his enclosure, with live food, and sometimes left for days at a time with his dinner still running around). Not sure what happened that day as his feeding schedule hadn't deviated, but something tripped his feed trigger and he got my whole ring finger in his mouth. I didn't get anything worse than a tiny tooth scar and some blood loss, but I thought my boyfriend was going to pass out.
 
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Silly guy...you know I meant the boyfriend passing out!
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He tries his best to deal with it all, and he does well considering he had never even held a snake prior to meeting me...but it's clear who the herper is around here. :) We had our first pairing of the year tonight with the sunglow motleys, and he was squicked out by the "honeymoon present" the male left. (I'm a former zoo intern, I've been pooped/peed/marked/etc. on so many times it no longer bothers me.) He's got a looong way to go yet still.
 
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