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What herps have bitten you?

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Some people seem to be more prone then others to get bit. For example, my friend will get bit by things that have never bitten anyone else before. My list is relatively short with no plans to add to it. The snakes might not agree with that.

Northern Water snake as a kid
Brazilian Rainbow
SD Gopher Snake
Woma
Cuban Boa

Bonus feature:
Yellow Monitor with bonus 'death roll' feature adding in

I'm willing to guess there are some who are approaching 50 species or more?
 
Here is what I have been biten by:

Spiny Tailed Iguana
Retic
Afrock
Burm
Ball
Cali King
Braz Rainbow(on the lip lol)
Aussie Water Python
Black Rat snake as a kid(tried to ride my bike home while holding him).

The Retic and rock were recent, and completely my fault, as were all the others. I could have avoided the retic by using a hook, the rock by not smelling like rats, the king and ball by moving(but who cares, they dont hurt that much) but the burm and aussie were unexpected and fairly unavoideable given the situation. That iguana packed a punch though lol. Dan M.
 
Well off the top of my head, here's my list, although I am certain I'll miss several species I haven't kept in years.

Common boa
Woma
Jungle Carpet
Irian Jaya carpet
Ball python
Green Tree python
Hog Island boa
Radiated ratsnake
Blue Beauty
Taiwan beauty
corn snake
cal king
Hognose
South Florida king
Gray ratsnake
Hatchlings of numerous colubrid species, but those don't count

Those are what comes to mind easily, but I've kept almost 50 different species and been bitten by at least half of them so I am definitely forgetting several.
I still consider myself quite adept at avoiding bites though, I just get struck at a lot and the odds catch up with me periodically.
 
I haven't been bitten alot... But I have been bitten by a:
Corn snake
baby ball python
garter snake
and a dumeril's boa.
I want to be bitten more...
 
Come See my Bone......

To Bone or Not to Bone.....That is the Question.....I started by listing herps that have bitten me, and quickly decided it would be easier to list that which
has not bitten me.....Just this week alone I got chomped by a B&W Cal King, and a Texas Ornate Box Turtle? What?.....Dude How do get bit by a Ornate Box Turtle.....Simple ...you put your finger over by his mouth and say"Look, See, he doesn't bite!...... Chomp!!! Ok.Ok.....Now I know your wondering about the Finger? That my Friend is the Work of a 2.5 ft
WesternDiamondBack....I get to keep my finger......But now I don't know if I want it.....HaHa.....Last Month I removed this from my finger???? Believe it or Not! It finally healed up. Is that my Knuckle Bone or What? I thought it was a
piece if Tendon?????? 2 hours later Wha La.....I pulled that from my finger....Know my figer feels like a million Knuck....... :dgrin:
 

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Oh well, add Bredli to my list.
And to think as I was typing my list I was thinking how nice the bredli had been all these months, never offering to strike, all around docile, especially for a member of the morelia group.
10 minutes later that feeling ended......... :mah:
 
Chow (worst bite), American Eskimo (to face required stitches), Poodle, Lhasa, Rottie, Chihuahua, Min Pin, Cocker Spaniel, Husky, Schnauzer, Westie, Cairn, Samoyed, several cats......... California Sea Lion (big ouch), horse, donkey, duck (on the lip) .... all work related.

Western Fence lizard, cali kings, gopher snakes, coachwhips... all w/c during hiking/play days, catch and release.

Diamond pythons, and green tree pythons so many times that I don't even care about getting bit anymore. Just finished working with a baby that tagged and chewed multiple times!

After all the blood these critters have drawn, I'd take them all 10 times over again instead of that ONE bite of Keiths!! I have worked with lots of rattlers locally, but have never given one the chance to get that close!!
 
I thought I had responded to this in The Bite Club, but that was apparently not the place. I'll take a look tomorrow, so I don't have to think too hard (my other response was not an fully inclusive list, btw)
 
That got me thinking, I'm sure I forgot some
snapping turtle (stitches on the side and top of foot)
bearded dragon
crested gecko
garter snakes
bull snake
Brazilian rainbow boa
Cal king (just today)
corns
IJ carpet
ball python
sand boa
texas brown snake (I think he was trying to bite)
 
I have been bitten and constricted twice by a Burmese python i owned for many years, once at 4' and once at 8 feet. Both due to "stupid feeding errors", and both while alone.
 
Wow guys my list is relatively short and uneventful.
baby ball pythons
4ft albino burm
Black racer
pacman frog
stray cat
rottweiler
Pitbull

of those the only one that left scars is the rotty. And I can say All of those bites were my fault.
 
Hrm.. Reptile wise, not too much has latched on to me...

A few Ball pythons.. rarely have they just bitten and released though.. so that sucks.

a young (luckily) savanna monitor.. that took some time to get to release.. YAY MOUTHWASH! ha ha ha ha

that is about it aside from young leopard geckos and bearded dragons.. but that doesn't count.. thats just CUTE!
 
A baby Brazillian boa once, it was so cute to see him acting so fierce just hanging there until he figured out he couldn't eat me and was serving no purpose. He let go on his own.

A graze from my tegu once upon waking. Slight scratches, no blood but man I felt it for hours and that was amazing to me as well and it did make me that much more aware how powerful and fast these creatures can be.
 
So far, the only snake I been biten by is by far the scariest snake ever- a barely 24 inch king snake.

Pathetic, right? It gets worse- I am terrified of this snake now!

oh, i got bit by rats, does that count??

:D
 
I have been bitten by so many snakes, I lost count many years ago (including a northern pacific rattlesnake), but I would not trade them all for the hit Keith took.
 
I was bitten by my iguana many years ago when I had her. I was hand feeding her apples and looked away when I shouldn't. Got a heck of a pinch by a hermit crab few years ago. Snake-wise I have been lucky. I do have a female Hogg Island that wants to earn a spot though. She is the devil. The only time I open her rack box is when my daughter is sleeping or at the in-laws to avoid her getting tagged in the attempt to get me. My daughter is just starting to understand why I don't let her near the snakes when I clean or feed.
 
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