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View Poll Results: What best describes your personal experience??
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Never been bitten. I tend to keep more placid species IE Cornsnakes.
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Have been nipped at a few times from my baby Python or Boa.
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I get hit every freaking day by something, whether I'm cleaning cages or just free handling for 'special time'.
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I've been hit hundreds of times from just about everything!! Kings, Milks, Pythons, Boas, but nothing too severe.
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I was at the wrong end (the recipient) of an extremely painful bite from a very large constrictor.
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I use extreme caution when handling any of my reptiles, and have not been bit by anything other than my neighbors dog, my house cat, or my neighbor. What's all this nonsense about Reptile bites???
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02-27-2006, 12:33 AM
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That's funny I just saw this now. I have never gotten bit by any of my lizards, including my ig, until today when I got bit by a blue tongue skink I just got. It's my own fault though, I was trying wipe the dead skin off his toes (that will not come off despite everything I've tried). My daughter came dancing in the room, and I turned my head away for a second and was bit. I have been bitten by mammals and birds before, and the garter snake I had when I was younger, but never a lizard. I guess this is the lizard I have to keep my eye on.
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02-27-2006, 11:47 AM
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nasty hognose bite
wow, no one has posted here in a while!!!! well this something i never want to experience with my hognose!!
http://www.herpnet.net/bite/
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02-27-2006, 11:48 AM
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oops
ha, nevermind...looking at the wrong date!!!!
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02-27-2006, 06:54 PM
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#144
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Originally Posted by cutefaces
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He should learn more about the snakes He owns.
He was envenomated, and should have seen a doctor, because He runs the risk of permanent damage.
And of course It was chewing, and working his fangs in. It's how they inject the venom. And he let it chew for a while, which is probably the cause for the swelling reaching so high on his arm. Had he reacted sooner, it would not have been so bad. Yes, Hognose are venomous, though mildly so, so not really known for human injuries.
My $0.025
Rick
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02-27-2006, 11:08 PM
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From what I heard on the grapevine, he allowed the snake to chew and inject the venom for the purpose of learning. He was wanting to know the effects of a hognose bite and to be able to teach others, as he has all of the pics on his website for that reason. Of course this may be wrong and he was not a bright person, well, it was not very bright thing to do it in the first place.
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02-28-2006, 02:27 AM
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at least he had enough sense to try to get the snake off after 3-5 minutes of being chewed on, lol. Actually, I am aware of another incidence of hognose envenomation... and that person didn't let the snake keep chewing. The effects were similar, but not as severe; and I think someone said that he now has a sensitivity to hognose venom (ie any bite results in similar swelling)
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02-28-2006, 06:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Junkyard
From what I heard on the grapevine, he allowed the snake to chew and inject the venom for the purpose of learning. He was wanting to know the effects of a hognose bite and to be able to teach others, as he has all of the pics on his website for that reason. Of course this may be wrong and he was not a bright person, well, it was not very bright thing to do it in the first place.
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Can you imagine? I mean why not pic a coral, or a Timber. Let us see what REAL venom does. LOL I can understand wanting to teach people, but not like that. And He said it was a feed response in the little thread I read.
Some people just have ALL the brains. I'm jealous!
Rick
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02-28-2006, 12:54 PM
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That's really gross. It kinda looks fake... Like one of those plastic models you see at doctor's offices.
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02-28-2006, 06:20 PM
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Originally Posted by ZenReptiles
That's really gross. It kinda looks fake... Like one of those plastic models you see at doctor's offices.
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It may look fake, but that's the real McCoy right there. Cool lookin huh? LOL And i bet it didn't have to chew either. HA HA HA
Sorry, My morbid side is coming out here. I love this stuff. Blood, guts, gore, bring it on. 
Rick
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