Bite Club - Page 17

03-31-2006, 01:31 PM

I have beeen bitten in the face once by a 3 month old central american boa I had. I was holding her in both my hands keeping her warm. She must have jumped two feet to get me. She nailed me on the bottom right side of my nose and about 1.5 inches below my right eye. That little snot, she never did tame down.

04-29-2006, 04:35 AM

this thread has made me squirm & laugh till i was crying (sorry! I know it wasn't funny to you guys when it happened). I'm pretty new to the reptile world but i've helped some friends of mine at a local pet store & if they say "it's nice" or "it's never bitten" i know i'm going to be the first taste of human flesh it'll get!!!
The worse snake bite (i don't do vens. because i know if it will ever bite anyone it's going to be me!)was by a blind albino corn snake!!!! She had the sharpest teeth of any!!!The most blood was drawn from a burm (who also left the most perfect tooth impression on my hand for days!) the most shocking would have been from the hondurian milksnake or the juv. bullsnake, the most often biters for me is those "passive, easy going" ball pythons( i swaer there's a conspiracy in there world to see which one can tag me the most!!!)
But honestly the worse bites i ever recieved where from 1) a squirrel 2) a groundhog & 3) a kitten that was sick & cause my finger to swell the size of an exploded hotdog..not to mention made me get my engagemebt ring cut off & destroyed @#*#cat!!!
I know mine wasn't as good as some of yours but I just wanted to share with you..besides how mant people do you know has been stupid enough to get bit by a groundhog?

04-29-2006, 11:30 AM

What I want to know is why on earth did they fillet that guy's arm so much? The necrotic tissue was just in the hand from what the pics showed. Just seemed excessive to me.

04-29-2006, 11:47 AM

May have had compartment pressure to start with, but I have a friend at the El Paso Zoo that has a similar scar due to a timber rattler bite. Almost goes to His elbow. Perhaps the skin had some necrosis and they removed that???

Rick

04-30-2006, 10:51 AM

I haven't been keeping reptiles for long, only since 2003. The "worst" bite (it wasn't bad at all) was when I was removing a large wild garter snake from a friend's basement and the only way to get it was by coming from the front. THey gave me big stiff leather gloves, but I couldn't feel to grasp him properly, so I finally said, "to heck with it" and took off the glove and picked him up. He tagged me, but the homeowner would have killed him if I didn't get him then. Stopped bleeding in less than five minutes.

We have a very nippy Blue Beauty, but the only time she actually managed to bite she didn't draw blood.

The worst bite overall I ever received was from my own cat that I had before I joined the Army. I had an enormous black cat named Salem (

I know....) who was trained to wear a leash. On Sept. 11, '01 I had the day off, and by midafternoon I just couldn't watch it anymore on my TV, so my friend and I decided to go to the park. I brought Salem on his leash.

I noticed he was starting to get nervous, and I was going to bring him back to the car, but I moved too slowly. Something scared him, and he tried to run away. When he couldn't flee (leash) he went berserk. Completely wild hindbrain took over. I had 18 lbs of insanity biting/scratching all over the leash arm. Every time I tried to pry his jaws off my arm, he'd bite sideways into my other hand. Shirt? Ruined. Pants? Wrecked. My friend had bolted for a blanket and finally came back and threw it over him, at which point we put him in the trunk of the car, drove him home, locked him in the bathroom, and my friend took me to the ER.

When the nurses in the ER weren't glued to the TV, they took turns coming in to see the "cat lady"...... I was glad to be entertaining, I guess. I was put on antibiotics right away and I still got cat scratch fever. I was out of work for 3 days, and couldn't drive my car or use doorknobs for two days. Oh, and Salem was his usual sweetheart self when I got home from the doctor's. I still wish I had gotten some pictures, though......