Bite Club

I've been bitten way to many times to count and in fact I even take one old cranky Prairie King with me to school programs to show children in a very dramatic way why they should leave wild snakes alone.
He is always my last demonstration after the kids have seen a many King, Corns, Milks and Boas being handled without a problem.
He, of course, never really does any damage because I do not pull away but he always strikes when handled and leaves the neat little mouth shaped needle sticks for the kids to see.

I have several young chain kings, as well as gray bands. The gray bands are not that bad. But the chains are fiesty still.

Another one got me today, a Rosie Boa of all things.

I have gotten tagged enough to know how to see them coming... Now it is much less frequent, although I am lucky to have very docile creatures in my care.

Hey, can I join?

I've been bitten by cats, dogs, birds, hamsters, rabbits, guinea pigs, ball pythons, corn snakes, fish, tortoise, iguana's, Leo's and Bearded Dragons.

I get bit the most often by baby corns and balls. Doesn't hurt at all. I do have a couple snakes that will bite me any chance they get. I have not been bitten by my Tegu yet and that one I am very careful with.

Got cat scratch fever once.

Never bitten in the face though. OUCH!! I bow to the masters.....

I have been lucky enough that I have not yet been tagged by one of my short tail pythons. I except that one to hurt merely by getting hit that with that much force.

The most amusing bites have to be from my thayeri kingsnakes. The snake is smaller than my pinky (and i have really small hands) and has just ferociously attacked my finger.

this is kind of embarrassing, but even with my temperamental Burmese, and many other pets i had, the only thing that bit me was my crocodile gecko when i was trying to clean his cage, it was totally comical though he grabbed on and wouldn't let go for a good few min... he hates me for some reason lol

I was bitten twice. One was an adult argentinian boa. She caught me off-guard and bit me in the hand. It was more the blow of the bite than the teeth themselves that left a big nlue mark. The second one was a burmese python. One of the tamest snakes I've owned regrettably one day he escaped in the reptile room and was hiding under a cupboard. Rookie mistake I extended my hand under the cupboard to pull him out...I had to pull out 2-3 teeth from under my skin. Small colubrids? Several times...

Regards

Originally Posted by The BoidSmith

I had to pull out 2-3 teeth from under my skin.

The pic I last posted brought me the same results. It had healed and I felt something that felt like a coarse hair. It turned out to be a tooth. Upon further inspection I found 2 others for a total of three teeth. That little bugger really twisted when it tagged my hand.

I got bit once by a Jeweled Curly-Tailed lizard before. It was probably my fault though. You'd think that a lizard onlya few inches long wouln't bite at something a million times its size, but oh well. Not a big deal. I've never been bitten by any of the Boas or Pythons I have now or have had in the past. B by dogs and cats too.