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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've been tagged by everything from Baby Corn Snakes and Ball Pythons, to seven foot Burms, large monitors, and my Caiman. Luckily nothing venomous, so I'm happy. Still got all of my fingers!! Here's my Caiman Bite.

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I just had to post didn't I? I think I jinxed myself. My eight foot BCI just decieded to get cute and managed to slip one tooth right into my pointer finger joint. Don't the ones on the knuckles hurt so much worse? They take a lot longer to heal in my experience. :shootfoot
 
I've had numerous bites over the years. When I was younger, it seems like I didn't care what bit me and I'd grab anything. Once I grabbed a good sized banded water snake in a creek mid-body and it tagged me mutliple times. The most recent bite I had happened a few weeks back by a 4' Suriname Redtail boa. I was in a hurry on feeding day and didn't take this particular snake out of its enclosure to feed. I knocked a rat out and threw it in. Naturally its legs gave one last spasm which flung its body into the water bowl. The snake was hungry and well aware of the rat. Me being the smart guy, I watched in slow motion as my hand moved toward the water bowl, the snake facing the water bowl, and me pulling the rat out. The snake struck and I bled for 15 minutes. Just another day.

Probably the most comical bite I had happened when I was at Bob Clark's place. I was with a buddy of mine who had dealt with Bob on numerous occasions, so we were able to "wonder around" for a few minutes and see all the stuff. Naturally, me being an idiot, I walk over to this one rack and pull out a tray. Before I could blink a reticulated python about 3-4' nailed me on the nose. Not 5 seconds later blood poured out everywhere. You live and you learn. :rofl:
 
Been bitten by neonate boas having target trouble, one time surprised me with a completely open mouthed bite on the wider part of my arm. I didn't know they could do that....

But the bite that stays most in my mind wasn't a reptile at all - ever had plastic surgery courtesy of a parrot? I have... I dont recommend letting one sit on your shouder if you have any skin tags on your neck - or if you do, try to recognise that intent look just before they bite down on it.

Saves on doctors bills, but still gives you a nasty shock. :D
 
Haha, I was actually viciously attacked by a sulphur crested cockatoo on the back of the neck once. He was hormonal and wanted me dead.
 
wait, there's no option for "self inflicted snake bite", as my three bites came from:

1) trying to pick up my spotted right after he finished eating
2) picking up a wild snake by the tail (I was 12 or so)
3) wiggling my finger in front of my friends 7 year old bull saying "look I'm a mouse, look I'm a mouse"

no, I'm not kidding about that last one either.
 
I received a crocodile monitor bite after repeatedly pinching her tail between a wall and display table. I was not watching what I doing so she reminded me that she has a long tail that needs to be looked after. She casually and mythodically picked her spot to bite. And chomp!

After a 20 min stuggle of figuring how to get her off with too much damage to either of us she finally got off, with some of my flesh too. I immediatly went into shock after putting her away. (I was by myself by-the-way) For 2hrs I was sweating and vomiting and praying for death. Finally, it stopped and I drove myself to the ER which was fortunately only a mile away.

The doctors and nurses all had something to talk about and have this story to tell. Worked out pretty well, eh?

Since, me and my croc are on great terms. I promised to never pinch her tail again and give her utmost respect she deserves. I'm I in?

 

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Ive only been bitten by my first BP Spyder. Cuz my dumbass put a mouse in the cage then took him out to reposition him (with the hand that held the mouse...) and he saw my finger and bit it. Bled a bit not too bad but, As soon as he reaized that it was not dinner he backed off, but that little guy hurt alot more then i thought it would. I was looking in the cage and he had bit me and let go before i even looked at him to yell "WTF BUDDY"
 
Worked at the East Bay Vivarium for a few years and been keeping reptiles since I was twelve so bites are as much a part of my life as breathing.

Funny thing for me has been where the bites come from. Gimme a rack full of wild-caught adult red bloods and I don't even get the anal cannon, just some hissing and waving. Green trees? No problem! Never been snapped at by an Emerald Boa and that's after owning a few! Wild-caught Boigas? Some of my favorite little darlings. My little Aussie Water Python baby has only once even tried to tag me.

However...

The Rosy Boa our owner just had out and was swearing up and down would not bite latches on to my damn finger! My pair of Spotted Pythons would routinely take nips at me just to keep me on my toes. Corns & Kings seem to think I'm tasty and I hated cleaning the baby Ball Python rack.

The Leopard Geckos and Bearded Dragons especially had it in for me. The Tree Monitors and I, though, we were cool.

So yeah no real epic bites but a lot of funny ones.
 
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Why you dont try arrange stuff in your snakes cage after feeding it :D

This was Asus's work, although she didnt try too hard, but did attempt to wrap. * shes very enthusiastic when she feeds* once she realized i was much bigger than a rat, she let go. But left me a nice funky looking raised bruised spot. Which you can see in my picture on the right. Unfortunately for all of you, i had wiped the first wave of blood off on my pants to close the tub, and keep asus from getting out in search of food. So you get the secondary wave of blood instead, which isnt nearly as good as the first. Ah well.
 
OUCHIES!!

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Unfortunately for all of you, i had wiped the first wave of blood off on my pants to close the tub, and keep asus from getting out in search of food. So you get the secondary wave of blood instead, which isnt nearly as good as the first. Ah well.
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You know, some how I get the feeling you think everyone here is bloodthirsty... :rofl: :rofl:
 
well i know i was dumb 3 times now the first about 20 yrs ago from a 14 ft burm while feeding ,the food got away and i didnt yup fubar not to long ago i was feeding one of my retics (about 10 ft male) and I through food in and she came out fortunatly she grabed mostly my shirt but it still wasnt fun and the last was ust the other day arguing with a 3 ft albino venomoid monacle and i lost ,that little sucke still packed a mean punch took almost a week before my hand worked right again .once again all my fault and a very good learning experiance if you stick you hand were it shouldnt be your probably gonna get it :iagree:
 
Well, after a couple of years with out incident, I was tagged while feeding my 7 foot pastel Kanji. His cage is on the top of a 7 foot stack I have. I was using 18 inch tongs to hold his F/T rat, with my right hand. He flew past the rat, busted down the cage door I was holding with my left hand and made a sharp downward turn and got me. I was pushing the cage door closed as I saw he missed the rat, but with tongs inside, I could not close it fast enough. Then the turd refused to eat after that.
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I didn't feel like the best answer was there to me. I've been bit a lot (I don't think hundreds of times though), but a lot of that was in my younger impetuous days of diving headlong into canals in the Everglades :shootfoot to play show and tell with my camping buddies (never the venomous stuff though).

Now, it's the occasional ornery Okeetee or overzealous Florida king.

Took a GTP bite once that I'd just as soon never take again... :rolleyes:
 
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