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Bite Club

What best describes your personal experience??

  • Never been bitten. I tend to keep more placid species IE Cornsnakes.

    Votes: 52 9.5%

  • Have been nipped at a few times from my baby Python or Boa.

    Votes: 212 38.8%

  • I get hit every freaking day by something, whether I'm cleaning cages or just free handling for 'spe

    Votes: 33 6.0%

  • I've been hit hundreds of times from just about everything!! Kings, Milks, Pythons, Boas, but nothin

    Votes: 100 18.3%

  • I was at the wrong end (the recipient) of an extremely painful bite from a very large constrictor.

    Votes: 91 16.6%

  • I use extreme caution when handling any of my reptiles, and have not been bit by anything other than

    Votes: 59 10.8%
  • Total voters
    547
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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
 
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 ( :rolleyes: 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......
 
Thought you all could use a good laugh!

Amber would not cooperate for her photo shoot....so she let me know how unhappy she was.....enjoy folks!!
 

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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.
 
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 :rofl: he grabbed on and wouldn't let go for a good few min... he hates me for some reason lol :rolleyes:
 
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
 
The BoidSmith said:
I had to pull out 2-3 teeth from under my skin.
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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. :rofl:
 
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