Bite Club

Lol! I'm glad you found something she finds tasty! Did she take it afterwards?

well i have been bit more times than i care to think about. the most memerable one was by av female borneo short tailed, she was 30 or 40 lbs and around 6 ft or so. my feeding proceedure was open cage throw rabbit, close door. well she missed the rabbit got my hand right in webbing between thumb and forefinger, wrapped my hand etc. took 2 people to pry her off of me and my hand swelled to the size of grapefruit. nothing broken thank god still hurt.

:O OMG! A couple more feet on her and she could've taken you down! I got hit in the same exact spot by a rattler when I was a kid, and that would've hurt from a colubrid, let alone a boa!

After this incident, did you invest in feeding tongs, or were you back to the same method next feeding day? Lol.

Originally Posted by HiddenHollowHerp

After this incident, did you invest in feeding tongs, or were you back to the same method next feeding day? Lol.

nope barbeque tongs. did the trick with the rabbits. my old tongs just could not hold the rabbits well enough.

plus they were cheaper than any tongs i ever bought at a show

Good idea. Cost efficient, and possibly a little grippier too. But the best feature.. Your snake doesn't take half of your hand at every feeding! Lol.

I used to use salad tongs when I fed my BP, and it worked fine and dandy!

[quote=HiddenHollowHerp;662792]Good idea. Cost efficient, and possibly a little grippier too. But the best feature.. Your snake doesn't take half of your hand at every feeding! Lol.

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aint that the truth

I've found that rinsing my hands in alcohol between food animals seems to reduce the mis-strikes I was getting when hand feeding. Doesn't hurt to take some of it internally either...

Ahhh...we need pictures here people....This thread is all about the blood, waves and oceans of blood....If there isn't a picture, then it didn't happen

Where I work we make hand sanitizer and I put purell on my hands before handling, seems to deter them just from the smell alone. And if they do bite their not on you for long.

The worst bite for me was from a cat. I was cleaning his cage, and he jumped out on me and was wandering around the room. He started climbing up one of the steel cages, so I go to grab him. The cat knew I was there, so I didn't startle him. The little bugger chomped down on my left hand right between my knuckles and kept chomping. About seven bites, all in the same wound.

I felt fine, I put him back in his cage (at which time he was acting like a perfectly normal feline) and then i noticed that the color of my gloves looked funny. I was bleeding so much. I sort of just laughed and thought "well hell, I get to go home early". I managed to walk maybe ten feet, and I started going into shock. I fainted right in front of my boss as he was showing around the person he just hired

That damn bite made my hand swell up four times its size for a few days. I'm just glad it was on my left and not my right.


Reptile-wise, I've only had a few corns, garters, and... bearded dragons. The corns and garters I didn't feel at all, only afterward the bites felt mildly itchy like a mosquito bite.