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What herps have bitten you?

jscianni21 said:
i havn't been biten yet so i probly jynxed myself now

unless a baby sister biting me like 8yrs ago counts =p
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I haven't had a bite that has drawn blood, but my now 2 year old Kenyan Sand Boas often mistook my fingers for tasty pinkies when they were neonates. I wouldn't even know they were on there, until i would pull my hand out, and one would be wrapped around my finger, hanging on for dear life:rofl:
 
I have quite a long list since I worked in a reptile shop so here goes...

-American Alligator (3 ft...luckily the 6ft one behaved)
-Ornate Plated Lizard (Bastard took a chunk of the webbing between my fingers out)
-Leopard Geckos
-Nile Monitors
-Bosc Monitors
-Green Plummed Basilisks
-Adult Carpet Python
-Red Tail Boa
-Ball Python
-Veiled Chameleon
-Tokay Gecko
-Anoles (who hasn't)
-Sudan Plated Lizard
-Black Throat Monitor
-Rhinoceros Iguana
-Bearded Dragons
-Frilled Dragons
-California King Snake
-Corn Snake

There's tons more but this is all I can remember at the time.
 
To add to my list:
Argentinian Black and White Tegu
Adult RES
Baby RES
Chubby Frog
Box Turtle
Green Iguanas
Uromastyx


Other animals:

Countless dogs (I used to be a groomer)
Cats
Mice
Rats
Gerbils
Degus
Chinchillas
Ferrets
Birds/Parrots
Bunnies
Hamsters (satan's mammal IMO)
Guinea Pigs
Wolf Fish
Superworms
Crickets
Mealworms
 
Ball Python
Boas
Cornsnakes
Honduran Milk (she actually swallowed my finger.... had to call in re-inforcements to get her off)
Lousiana Milk
Flordia King
Cal King
Speckled King
Desert King
Yellow Bellied Watersnake
Diamondback Watersnake
Sonoran Gopher Snakes
Bull Snake
Bluff strike from a Malagasy Hoggie (closed mouth strike)
Western Rat snake
Blue Racer
Ringneck (this one surprised me)

Tokay Gecko
Five lined Skink (wasn't expecting this one either)
 
My list isn't that long But here it goes:

Burmese Python
Ball Python
Red Tail Boa
B&W Tegu
Blood Python
Green Tree Python

& Thats pretty much it.... for now atleast
 
Let's see here.

Retics
Burms
RTB
GTPs
Nile monitor
Kings
Rosy Boas
BRBS
Gopher snakes
Aligator lizards

Think that's it.
 
Here is my list...

Snakes
California Kingsnakes
Ball Pythons
Reticulated Pythons
Blood Pythons
Green Tree Pythons
Boa constrictors
Kenyan Sand Boas
Garter Snakes
Yellow Anaconda

Lizards/Geckos
Iguanas
Crested Geckos
Gargoyle Geckos
Gehyra marginata geckos
Leopard Geckos

Turtles
Paint Turtles
Eastern Box Turtles

I've been bit by many other animals as well, so figured I'd include those...

Horses
Various large exotic parrots
Various small exotic birds
Goats
Feral cats (ouch!)
Rats
Mice
Groundhogs
Raccoons
Dogs
Guinea pigs
Rabbits
People (not kidding... that kid was mean!)

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I would easily say the worst bites I've experienced were from rats and cats. I would take snake bites over rat bites any day. I wouldn't say I'm prone to getting bit, I've just been involved with animals on a daily basis for a very long time, so it's bound to happen at some point :yesnod:
 
Snakes:
Green Tree Python
Amazon Tree Boa
Blood Python
Ball Python
Reticulated Python (probably the WORST bite)
Burmese python
Corn Snake
California King/Florida King
Kenyan Sand Boa
Columbian Red-Tail Boa
Viper Boa
Western Hognoses
Scrub Python
(Probably more...)

Lizards:
Leopard Gecko (Probably the LEAST painful bite ever)
Columbian Tegus
Savannah Monitor
American Alligator
Veiled Chameleon
Iguana

Other:
White's Tree Frog (Made me laugh a LOT)
 
I've been bitten by every species I've ever owned... but the worse bite was from a grumpy adult imported Buton Retic....... He bit me on the Arm. in the antecubital area

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The top jaws sunk into the top... and lower jaws hit my elbow.... he wrapped me up and continued to squeeze very hard..... it took me about 10 minutes to get him off....... I tried using alcohol(which burned me like hell.) waterhose...

everytime we tried uncoiling him he would walk his teeth up and down my arm slicing me up even more....... his top teeth severed the Medial Cubital and Caphalic veins and there was blood everywhere.....

We finally pryed his mouth off using a butterknife and wooden dowel(we opened his mouth and placed a wooden dowel in... he bit on it and I got my arm free.....

I has to apply a tourniquet and get rushed to the ER.... where they eventually had to call a surgeon in to perform microsurgery to reconnect the damage to the bloodvessels...... I had 36 superficial stitches and countless internal ones..... I have some pics that were taken at the ER I will try to find......

I had to take 2 courses of IV Cipro because I started running a fever that night.... and they were concerned I would go into septic shock..... they had my friend go to my house to collect a swab from the inside of the snakes mouth so they could run a sensitivity on it...... The reports showed several possible pathogens in the mouth flora..... Retics have this group of teeth in the top of their mouths.... middle row front that are very long and super sharp.....these did the worst damage....... and the other teeth just sliced up my arm........



Anyway...... I was probably a little complacent at the time... and let my guard down....... you forget sometimes how dangerous these snakes can be..... especially retics...... It wasnt long after that when I realized that retics probably arent the best animals to keep as pets and I stopped working with them all together.... If he wouldve tagged me in the neck, it couldve killed me.......


I love my boas..... even the biggest one probably wont send me to the ER...LOL
 
that ones hilarious lol, i may bust a stitch lol. omg i love it. put me with my mom and its a life or death catfight. we could never co-inhabit together. too much women venom
 
:D Fun thread. Let me see:

1.) Garters
2.) Northern Water Snake
3.) Black Rat Snake
4.) Blue Racer
5.) Black Racer (a lot)
6.) Corn Snake
7.) Cal King
8.) Brazilian Rainbow Boa
9.) Prairie King
10.) Bullsnake
11.) Five-lined Skink
12.) Broadhead Skink
13.) Northern Fence Lizard
14.) Western Slender Glass Lizard
15.) Broad-Banded Water Snake
16.) Great Plains Rat Snake
17.) Blotched Water Snake

Haven't been bitten in a while though...maybe I'm due :eek:.

Dan
 
Off the top of my head...

California and mexican black king snakes, mostly juveniles but I've been tagged many times by my evil 6ft Cali. I've only had him a couple weeks and he is by far the meanest animal I've ever owned.

Countless corn snakes, all juveniles. It's so cute when they bite!

Redhood23's rosy boa bit me. He grabs it out and says, "wanna hold a snake that WILL bite you?" and puts it in my hands. Yup, he was right, it did bite me. It didn't even make it into my hands before it latched on.

Countless garters of all shapes, sizes and varieties.

A couple bull snakes back in the day when I lived in Wyoming as a kid. I've had my pet pair of bulls take a snap at me a few times, but they haven't quite gotten me yet.

Sinaloan and Nelson's milk snakes

Prairie rattlesnake. Dry bite while riding my motorcycle when I was about 15.

Mediterranean geckos. We had these little guys all over our apartment in Texas.

Leopard geckos

Panther geckos

Crested geckos

Veiled chameleons

Chinese water dragon

Long tailed lizards, green anoles, bahaman anoles and similar species.

Horned lizards (horny toads)

Too many frogs to name...

Probably more but I don't remember at the moment.
 
Okay well first off HOLY SHIT ! to the Keith Northrop guy
well this is my list here it goes : i got bitten by a

garter snake
3ft peach throat monitor
3.5ft argus monitor
7ft Pastel Red tail Boa (worst bite, i gotten 3 of his teeth stuck in my thumb)
Lavendar Rat Snake
Red Ear Slider
Raptor Leo
and believe or not Pixie Frog - after dat i was bound to cook that fat shit
Patternless albino Burm

and plan to get bitten more and more everyday lol
 
I'll join in the fun.

Reptiles:

Yellow Anaconda (x3)
Amazon Tree Boa (x2)
Ball Python
House Snake
Garter Snake
Corn Snake
Fox Snake
King Snake
Rat Snake
Bredli Python
Coastal Carpet
Leopard Gecko
Fat Tail Gecko
Crested Gecko
Water Dragon
Columbian Tegu
Burmese Python
Savannah Monitor


Mammal:

Sugar Glider
Short Tailed Oppossum
Siberian Chipmunk
Dog
Mouse
Rat
African Soft Fur Rat
Rabbit
Syrian Hamster
Gerbil
Chinchilla
Degu (Worst bite ever)
Cat
Marbled Fox
Ferret
Hedgehog
Albino Brown Bat
Virginia Oppossum (domestic)
Prairie Dog
Dwarf Hamster

Birds:

Cockatiel
Budgies
Barn Owl
Tawny Owl
Baby Red Tail Hawk
Adult Red Tail Hawk
Falcon
Baby African Gray
Sun Conure
Quaker
Green Cheek Conure
Robin
Wild Finches

Most of these were my fault or because I was dealing with a sick or injured animal (a lot of the mammals and birds). I am sure there will be more to follow...
 
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