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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
Worst bite I've ever received was over 15 years ago. Large adult green iguana. Latched onto my thumb while doing a show for a kindergarten class in my shop. Poor kids were all screwed up crying and screaming. Teacher turned to run away thinking she was next and took out a hexagon tank display I had setup for sale. It was a nightmare.
 
critical bill said:
Worst bite I've ever received was over 15 years ago. Large adult green iguana. Latched onto my thumb while doing a show for a kindergarten class in my shop. Poor kids were all screwed up crying and screaming. Teacher turned to run away thinking she was next and took out a hexagon tank display I had setup for sale. It was a nightmare.
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Now that would make a good movie scene.
 
The last thing i want to get bitten by is a large lizard,Give me a snake bite any day.I wish you had that on tape...LoL.
 
Got another minor bite for the bite club. As usual, feeding day, hungry snake, slow human. Apparently Dumeril Boa's have a double set of teeth on the top jaw. She also gave me a single set of marks on the bottom of my thumb. She is such a good girl, she let go after only a couple seconds when she realized I was not the biggest rat she had seen.

20lb female Dumeril

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oh yeah?

you guys may have more gory, bloody wounds, but imagine the mental trauma that comes from not knowing for sure if you've even been bit until you squint and focus with one eye, finding two tiny puncture marks and a nanodrop of thin, pinkish blood:

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haha. close one eye and pray, and you can barely see two little tooth holes. from a very cautious little 10 month old diamond coastal intergrade.
 
15 lb female boa bite from the other day. Even got a few teeth with this one. More pain digging the tooth out than the actual bite
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and heres the "big" tooth
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Not a bad bite but a bite with pics none the less
 
Ok, I've got a story...

I was living at Wurtsmith AFB at the time, and my son's teacher found out that I keep reptiles, so I was invited to bring my menagerie to the 3rd grade class for show and tell. First to say hello was my 6 foot Green Iguana 'Pip', who I took in a small dog carrier. He behaved himself fortunately (he wasn't always so well mannered). Next was my Bullsnake "Bullet", another 6 feet of snake that should have been a poster child for ADHD. Lastly was my pride and joy, "Pepper", my California Kingsnake. I raised her from a baby. I'm sitting on a small chair explaining all about how snakes live, grow, eat, etc....when all of a sudden I feel a pinch on my right pinkie. I look down and she is preparing to make my little finger a meal. So I'm sitting there, trying to act as non-chalantly as I can, still babbling away about reptile behavior, whilst trying to pry her mouth off of my digit without alerting the roomful of eight year olds, as I did NOT want to get phone calls from angry parents that night screaming about how I scared their kids to death....:rofl: . Needless to say, I will NEVER forget the hand soap again!
Sadly, Pepper is gone now after being with me for 15 years, I had to have her euthanized in 2004 after she contracted tumors all through her body....I miss that little girl.
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My worst bite was from a hungry 6ft+ BCC female. She latched on and tried to wrap around my arm but she couldnt do it so she hung from my arm. I did get her off and had 2 nice rows of blood marks on my arm:) It hurt and bled bad but it was my fault so I couldn't be mad:) The worst part of the whole ordeal was the bite got infected. Easy fix though!
 
I've had a number of little hits from my snakes, nothing that has drawn blood though - yet. I like to think of myself as a decent snake handler, I know body language that suggests biting, I know how to pick them up to avoid a hit and stuff. There have been a few feeding incidents where our ball pythons have struck at us, but they've always managed to miss. I got hit at work after giving a 70 gram ball python an injection. We hand feed our garter snake pinkies and sometime she thinks our fingers are food too - sand paper pinches! My most recent bite was from our baby black rat snake who gave me NO warning at all, just bam! And I couldn't even see where he had hit me. Maybe that's all it was, just an impact, no teeth involved. His teeth aren't big enough to make marks yet, so maybe he did think he was being ferocious. Our most recently acquired snake is a 3 yr old cornsnake who was known to be very jumpy and a biter. He hasn't shown a single thought of biting us yet and is nothing but mellow. Maybe it was operator error?

In my line of work (vet tech) I handle a lot of angry, scared or hurt animals. I've been bitten by dogs through muzzles (though they bruise, they haven't broken the skin - yet) and cats have grazed my skin with their teeth. The most damage I get are from claws though. Mice bites HURT. My favorite precious 16 year old parakeet has drawn blood on the end of my nose.

My worst bite actually came from one of my favorite cats. He was a bit neurotic about his food and for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to let him eat from my hand. He gobbled up every little kibble and impaled my finger in the process, a canine puncture on both the top and bottom. It showed signs of infection less than 8 hours afterwards. Luckily, triple antibiotic ointment smeared liberally over the entire digit did the trick.
 
I don't even have a snake yet, but I get to join the club. I was looking at a pair of absolutely gorgeous Columbian Rainbow Boa babies at a pet store today, and the gal running it asked if I wanted to hold one. Well, how could I say no?! She picked one up for me, and just as she was handing it across she said "These guys tend to be strikey and nervous when they're this small, she he might bite," and RIGHT the second she said that he got in range of my hand, and bit me!

It felt like when you accidentally touch the tip of a very fine-pointed needle, a prick but no actual pain. I have a teeny tiny set of little pinprick marks on the webbing between two fingers. Never did start hurting at all, his teeth were just too small.

Funny thing about that was that I've been really nervous about getting bitten up till now. I've handled quite a few snakes, and never been tagged by one, but I was really twitchy about the thought. Those teeth look sharp and scary, even on the smaller ones! But now that I've actually gotten bit, I'm not too worried about getting tagged again. It'll probably hurt more from a bigger one, but it couldn't possibly be any worse than what my one cat did to me when I first got her as a crazed stray.
 
this retic gave me a scare. It bit my hand & pulled me into the cage wrapping my arm. fortunately, he (Julios Squeezer) let go with the bite. My wife had to come down & get him off. I held a wash clothes on the bite while she did so. The wash clothes was soaked with blood by the time she got him off. Fortunately, I didn't resist the bite, so the cuts were more punchures than slices. Didn't go to the hospital for the bite & took about a week to heal. If you think that is bad, wait til I tell you about the time he wrapped me & I thought I was a goner :ack2: :eek: :shootfoot

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haha, I've been bit at least 3-4 times a day at work by hatchling corns and kings. Those things are pretty wild, and its not worth my effort to go out of my way to hook them when changing some simple water or something. Only been bit at home once maybe, and that was definitely a dumb move on my part. Feeding a ball python a thawed mouse barehanded was a one time thing.
 
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Only been bit at home once maybe, and that was definitely a dumb move on my part. Feeding a ball python a thawed mouse barehanded was a one time thing.
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I used to bare hand feed certain rattlesnakes :NoNo: Talk about dumb moves, still do not know why I used to do that, thrill, becoming one with the snake :ack2: :shrug01: Anyhow, glad they never tagged me.

please do not flame me for the pic, just showing how dumb I was :censored: :ack2:
Kids don't try this @ home...no one try this :NoNo:
This speckled rattlesnake used to eat frozen, thawed mice right out of my hand. Looking back, I must of had a guardian angel watching over me. He was probly telling God, "This guy is stupid, can't I just let him get bit?"

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I just got the stupidest bite!!! I've been bitten by our garter snake and juvie black rat snake a number of times, but they've never drawn blood. We got a baby (not even 2 months old) northern water snake a couple weeks ago. A friend of ours owns his mom and she's the most handleable specimen ever. We figured that with regular handling, this little guy might not be so mean as he grows up. Well, the little bugger already drew blood on me! *LOL* He's only about 6 inches long and when I took him out tonight, he was all spit and vinegar, striking and biting at the air and me. When he actually latched on, it felt like needles rather than just a little sandpaper pinch like our other little guys. My husband was laughing and took him and he got chewed on some too. I looked down and there was a dot of blood where he bit me! *LOL* It took a few minutes to remember that these guys have anticoagulant in their saliva, and that's probably why I bled. We were so amazed that such a tiny little guy could be so vicious and actually make me bleed! *LOL*
 
I've been nipped many many times by my corns and other pets. They always get me on my left hand, not my right that I have in the habitat when doing water dishes and stuff. All almost unnoticeable.
Worst bite I ever had though I just got 2 days ago while dealing with my rodents. I was cleaning around the cages and had the back of my hand against a hamster cage, looking down at the time, and WHAM, the hammy got my knuckle thru the bars and bit to the bone.
I probably should have it looked at, it was pretty nasty, but I rinsed with peroxide and have it wrapped with Neosporin on the bandage.
Any of the reptiles we've kept never worried us, but we've always been leery of the hamsters. :eek: I'm probably going to put a small warning on that one's cage.
 
I got tagged by my corn yesterday. It was my fault, she was hungry and I had rat smell on my hand. She had NEVER offered to bite before (of course I had never before tried to remove her when she was that hungry) Shocked me so much I didn't pull back but was left wondering what happened.

However I would much prefer a snake bite to a mouse or rat (or hamster) bite. They hurt worse than anything.
 
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