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Fed my Biak tonight. Despite very accurate advice to use tongs and not my fingers I pinch a rat pink by the tail figuring I have plenty of space between it and me.....

Anyone with an arboreal knows how this ends already and is shaking their head.

4 large puncture wounds on the tip of my middle finger that bled like a stuck pig. After a few choice words I located my tongs and the biak hit the pink very quickly.

I never said I was smart but hard headed is a given now.
 
Ha Ha, I did the same thing with my emerald once. She left a tooth in my thumb. Now I'm the poster child for careful.
 
oh, arboreal or not.. snake owners know this. lol.. and with the bigger ones.. even using tongs doesn't guarantee your safety. I had it happen a couple of months ago. adult ball python.. I was using full tongs.. and she still managed to shoot passed the rat, passed the tongs, and get my forearm.. then wrapping.. oh that was a fun day *rolls eyes*
 
welcome to the club! i took an adult amazon to the face opening an exo terra! i was looking for the female lol the male found me....
 
Miss Tuniwha said:
oh, arboreal or not.. snake owners know this. lol.. and with the bigger ones.. even using tongs doesn't guarantee your safety. I had it happen a couple of months ago. adult ball python.. I was using full tongs.. and she still managed to shoot passed the rat, passed the tongs, and get my forearm.. then wrapping.. oh that was a fun day *rolls eyes*
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My dwarf female retic bit and wrapped the tongs :eek: was rather strange.
 
Well, we's all idiots at some point ... herp love is sometimes idocy ... it's a good thing.

Last year, my son ran home hollering that there was a large Copperhead in the road and if I didn't help it, it would be run over. He had tried to "scare" it into the woods, but it didn't budge. (He likes snakes, but I've always emphasized not to mess with it unless you are sure it isn't hot. We have plenty of venomous stuff here)

We went down where, sure enough the pretty adult Hognose (not Copperhead) was basking in the road, just 5 ft. from the woods. I tried to encourage it to move with my foot, but it was too comfy, I guess.

I then reached down slowly to grab it behind the head ... that thing tagged me 5 times between my wrist and elbow in about 3 seconds and then slithered off into the woods, leaving me bleeding like I had a mortal wound.

Snake 1, human 0. (And I felt like a total idiot in front of my son ... but he did learn another valuable lesson! lol)
 
Before and after - before to teach the difference betweeen species ... and then after because he was kind of freaked how fast it moved and the amount of blood it drew with just a few minor bites. LOL
 
Just worried his meal/video game/computer/chauffer ticket might drop dead of snake/idiocy bite! :rofl:
 
jmcalister said:
welcome to the club! i took an adult amazon to the face opening an exo terra! i was looking for the female lol the male found me....
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Gotta love that atb attitude! Mine loves to light me up everytime I open her cage. Luckily she just nips, unless she is being fed. I only have a 10" pair of tongs so I kinda hide around the corner of her terrarium when I feed her because she has nearly gotten me many times. Haha. She is the only one I need to feed with tongs.
 
hehehe gotta love snakes. If I leave out California kings (which have a love/hate relationship with me) I can count the number of bites I have received on 2 hands, in over 16 years.

But my very first one is the one that has ingrained a healthy respect for snakes.

I was keeping my Burms at a friends house. He had a reptile room, was a breeder/wholesaler and my buddy and I were apprenticing from him. In exchange for learning the ropes of the biz and free room for the snakes, we cleaned and fed everything. Well one of his friends had a problem and dumped several dozen feet worth of pythons on us. We had no choice but to double up our animals, and so feeding day was real fun. One eats in the enclosure, the other on the floor.

I had been real careful all day, but the last one was my first snake, my special girl. The one I assigned all sorts of dog/human traits to. The one I "trusted", the one too smart to mistake me for a rabbit. After she finished swallowing I just reached down to pick her up and put her away.

She nailed me right on the wrist and proceeding to put all 10 feet of her body in tight coils up my arm and around my neck. Luckily there were 3 other people in the room at the time, so it never got more than uncomfortable.

One of the guys was new to snake keeping, and in the process says "this may sound like a stupid question, but doesn't that hurt?"

I said yeah, it does sound stupid, cause yeah, it hurts quite a bit.

Anyway, the "stupid bite club" has a large and rather distinguished membership, welcome!
 
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