Bite Club

I received a crocodile monitor bite after repeatedly pinching her tail between a wall and display table. I was not watching what I doing so she reminded me that she has a long tail that needs to be looked after. She casually and mythodically picked her spot to bite. And chomp!

After a 20 min stuggle of figuring how to get her off with too much damage to either of us she finally got off, with some of my flesh too. I immediatly went into shock after putting her away. (I was by myself by-the-way) For 2hrs I was sweating and vomiting and praying for death. Finally, it stopped and I drove myself to the ER which was fortunately only a mile away.

The doctors and nurses all had something to talk about and have this story to tell. Worked out pretty well, eh?

Since, me and my croc are on great terms. I promised to never pinch her tail again and give her utmost respect she deserves. I'm I in?

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Yikes!!!

Ive only been bitten by my first BP Spyder. Cuz my dumbass put a mouse in the cage then took him out to reposition him (with the hand that held the mouse...) and he saw my finger and bit it. Bled a bit not too bad but, As soon as he reaized that it was not dinner he backed off, but that little guy hurt alot more then i thought it would. I was looking in the cage and he had bit me and let go before i even looked at him to yell "WTF BUDDY"

Worked at the East Bay Vivarium for a few years and been keeping reptiles since I was twelve so bites are as much a part of my life as breathing.

Funny thing for me has been where the bites come from. Gimme a rack full of wild-caught adult red bloods and I don't even get the anal cannon, just some hissing and waving. Green trees? No problem! Never been snapped at by an Emerald Boa and that's after owning a few! Wild-caught Boigas? Some of my favorite little darlings. My little Aussie Water Python baby has only once even tried to tag me.

However...

The Rosy Boa our owner just had out and was swearing up and down would not bite latches on to my damn finger! My pair of Spotted Pythons would routinely take nips at me just to keep me on my toes. Corns & Kings seem to think I'm tasty and I hated cleaning the baby Ball Python rack.

The Leopard Geckos and Bearded Dragons especially had it in for me. The Tree Monitors and I, though, we were cool.

So yeah no real epic bites but a lot of funny ones.

Why you dont try arrange stuff in your snakes cage after feeding it

This was Asus's work, although she didnt try too hard, but did attempt to wrap. * shes very enthusiastic when she feeds* once she realized i was much bigger than a rat, she let go. But left me a nice funky looking raised bruised spot. Which you can see in my picture on the right. Unfortunately for all of you, i had wiped the first wave of blood off on my pants to close the tub, and keep asus from getting out in search of food. So you get the secondary wave of blood instead, which isnt nearly as good as the first. Ah well.

OUCHIES!!

Originally Posted by Mooing Tricycle

Unfortunately for all of you, i had wiped the first wave of blood off on my pants to close the tub, and keep asus from getting out in search of food. So you get the secondary wave of blood instead, which isnt nearly as good as the first. Ah well.

You know, some how I get the feeling you think everyone here is bloodthirsty...

Originally Posted by TheFragginDragon

OUCHIES!!



You know, some how I get the feeling you think everyone here is bloodthirsty...

LOL i know i am.

The bloodier the better!!!!

well i know i was dumb 3 times now the first about 20 yrs ago from a 14 ft burm while feeding ,the food got away and i didnt yup fubar not to long ago i was feeding one of my retics (about 10 ft male) and I through food in and she came out fortunatly she grabed mostly my shirt but it still wasnt fun and the last was ust the other day arguing with a 3 ft albino venomoid monacle and i lost ,that little sucke still packed a mean punch took almost a week before my hand worked right again .once again all my fault and a very good learning experiance if you stick you hand were it shouldnt be your probably gonna get it

Well, after a couple of years with out incident, I was tagged while feeding my 7 foot pastel Kanji. His cage is on the top of a 7 foot stack I have. I was using 18 inch tongs to hold his F/T rat, with my right hand. He flew past the rat, busted down the cage door I was holding with my left hand and made a sharp downward turn and got me. I was pushing the cage door closed as I saw he missed the rat, but with tongs inside, I could not close it fast enough. Then the turd refused to eat after that.

I didn't feel like the best answer was there to me. I've been bit a lot (I don't think hundreds of times though), but a lot of that was in my younger impetuous days of diving headlong into canals in the Everglades to play show and tell with my camping buddies (never the venomous stuff though).

Now, it's the occasional ornery Okeetee or overzealous Florida king.

Took a GTP bite once that I'd just as soon never take again...