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The Day I knew was coming...

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Well i have a fine story to tell about my first boa...haha

Okay i finally got my thermostat wired so i could move the snake out of this room and into mine. I took the water bowl out of the tank and then just carried the tub with her in it over to the new spot...i have a feeling that was my first mistake...So i get her over to the new spot and take off the top and she doesn't look to be very agitated...I go to pick her up to set her outside the tub so i could tape the heat tape and the probe and clean her cage and BAM she TRIES to tag me...so i'm like what the heck 15 minutes ago i picked you up and you were fine now you're trying to eat me. SO for my second mistake i get down on my hands and knees and just look at her and try to distract her with one hand and pick her up with the other...that didn't work either, just agitated her more. Then i got closer to her face and BAM out of no where she comes striking right AT MY FACE...so i'm like okay what in the world is wrong. I left her there with the top off till she crawled out on her own and then let her calm down while I fixed her tub up. So i got her tub fixed up and she looked calm but as soon as she saw my hand move she was watching it like a hawk...I don't know WHAT was up with her today. So i tried to pick her up anyways and BAM my first boa bite. It was nothing like i expected. It hurt a tad but not too bad. She has a lot more teeth than i thought. The bite is just like a ton of holes...pretty wierd. Well i ended up getting her back in her cage with a coat hanger. Tomorrow is feed day so i guess ill try to handle her again tomorrow before i feed. Haha just thought I'd share my first boa bite tale!
 
A right of passage!

I've always described boa bites as being hit by a hammer with teeth.
Of course, I guess it's all relative - based on the size of the boa.
 
all my young and subadult boas are always as sweet as can be but 2 of my adults (which i purchased as adults)were a little wary. one day my 8.5+ ft female tagged me goodi think i counted like over twenty holes just from part of the top of my hand with some on bottom... not fun.
ive since learned how to read my animals and have adapted my aproach for them and i dont even see any more attitude. makes for a good story tho.
check this out tho. one time at a local pet store i was grabbed right on my head by huge burmese. also makes for a good story but even less fun.(basterd didnt even let go just hung there)
 
I also got my first bite recently...

... my newest little Hog Island was having a tough shed. So I had some shed aid stuff in a little pump spray and, since she had retained eyecaps (stuff said to spray directly on retained caps) I sprayed her eyes.... well, she didn't like it, lashed out immediately and got me on the thumb. Not really painful, just like a pinprick with four little holes. Didn't even hurt an hour later and I definitely learned to start spraying her BODY first!

:) Since then she's had a nice clean shed and her eyecaps came off, so all's well that ends well.
 
one time at a local pet store i was grabbed right on my head by huge burmese. also makes for a good story but even less fun.(basterd didnt even let go just hung there)
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ive seen the scars. about how big would you say that burmese was vinny?
 
12 ft my estimate. 9 the pet stores.couldve been 20 for all i care. i was pulling teeth out for a couple minutes then had to have the docters take care of the rest. the jerk who was handling it ripped it off my head when it didnt let go.
when my boa tagged me i just stopped moving and let her let go for fear of hurting her and breaking off teeth.
 
My turn

I've been bit by just about every boa I've owned, although all but two of them were babies that really didn't hurt. Those just kinda startle ya bit. The two that I will always remember are a 5.5ft, male Suriname and a 10ft. ColombianXCosta Rican female.
The Suriname was a recent purchase from a friend's petstore, and he'd warned me about how powerful a feeding response this sweet and gentle snake had. About a week after gettting him home, we gave him his f/t rat, but we NEVER gave it to him last again.
My guess is he smelled all the other food in the room long before he got any, and it made him a little :nuts: . Well I opened his cage and he was hiding under his paper. I dropped the rat, and BAM!!! That was the first bite I'd gottn from a really nice sized snake, and wow, I thought he took my whole hand! The real trick came when I realized that he was now crawling around my feet as I was bleeding all over him. Somehow I was able to convince him a box was a nice place to hide, and then easily transferred him back to his cage where he happlily started to eat. An hour and half later the bleeding stopped and all was well.
The worst bite I've ever gotten from any snake was my female 10ft. ColombianxCosta Rican. She got my hand (yes, the whole thing). She'd just given birth, and we were removing here to a cage to reduce the bite risk HA-HA when this tired, and weary looking snake hit me with every thing she had! She broke my hand in four places, dislocated my thumb and pinky, and left me 9 teeth, right in the fleshiest part of my hand.
The worst part of getting bit by something like that is dealing with the critter long enough to secure them while you're in that much agaonizing PAIN!
The lesson learned? We don't keep their cages on carpet anymore. LOL No, now we use two people with hooks to remove the females to their temporary home.
Thanks for reading my stupidity :)
Anthony
 
broken bones from a boa bite, DAYUM!

I've been bitten by everything BUT a boa, haha

the worst was when i was bitten by a 6 foot female burm anout 5 years ago, i paniked and pulled my hand away, ripped some skin straight off and left about 7 big teeth imbeded in my skin, my second worst was when i was bitten 5 times in a row by a WC male ball python, he lunged at me while i was picking him up to get ready to be shipped, after he tagged me i tried to grab him behind his head, that didnt work, he ended up getting me 3 more times on my forearm and then once more on my hand
 
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