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Worst Herp Bites

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Hey guys,
I have a question for all of you. What was your worst Hep Bite??
For example mine was by a 10 foot BCI Which required stitching. What was yours? please dont hesitate to share.
Thanks, Cody
 
It's a tie between being bit in the face by an 8 foot retic,
And the last 2 pictures, which were courtesy of an angry female boa. The last picture was 10 minutes after the bite, what my arm looked like, felt more like a sucker punch than a bite really.
 
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Ever had a 4 foot iguana do a Death roll with a chunk of your arm in it's mouth? Not fun!! It was one that I adopted and it literally launched itself at me and grabbed my forarm and rolled like a gator.
 
hey kylie, those bites look pretty brutal! my baby boa just bit me for the first time today 4 times!!! not bad at all but that retic bite looks painful. by the way gorgeous snake around your neck!
 
Actually... I had 7 iguanas at the time and 3 of them were pure evil but I had to take into consideration that I adopted them because they were mistreated and half starved when I got them so I didn't blame him at all.

I had a 5 foot female and 6 foot male that I used to take along with me in the car for rides and walked them around the parks in my area all the time... They were awesome!! You can't blame the animals for the bad treatment of some people :)
 
thats true most people who buy them on impulse have no clue how to care for them so they sell them when their weak and dibilitated. it is pretty cool how you can treat iguanas like dogs (with obvious acceptions of course) the nice ones admittedly are great pets!
 
lol, why thank you!
That "gorgeous" snake was the "little" brat who bit me! Lavender Albino.
And actually... it wasn't that painful.. The boa bite was much worse. I just almost had another ear ring hole!
 
I don't have a pic of the wound, but my 11 foot male retic bit me a month ago on the hand as I was cleaning his enclosure. My fault, I should have noticed his "interest", and I reactively jerked my hand when he struck. Ripped flesh on both sides of my hand, blood spraying everywhere. I just used a butterfly bandage after cleaning it with alcohol, and went back to cleaning, this time using a snake stick to keep him away. It was sore for the last month, finally healing up. I've been much more careful since then. He's great when he's out, but a devil when he's in his enclosure.
 
no pics of my worst bites got 3 that come to mind

9ish burm quick hit to the forearm no stitches required
5 ft blood, hit the web between the thumb and index finger and then wrapped my hand and arm, truely a funny site when he helped me un wrap the snake then tried to wrench the snakes head loose. the look on his face when i yelled no you'll break her teath, was truely priceless.
3-4 ft aligator, broke 2 fingers a metacarpel and some puncture wounds
 
My worst is from a 18 inch nile, (sissy I know but my retics never bite*shrug*) tore up my index finger on left hand.
 
My worst bite was from a 3.5' water monitor of mine. I use to take her with me places and she was sitting on my shoulder inside a local herp shop and my friend was standing next to me. A guy in the absolute brightest yellow shirt I've ever seen came in through the shop door and quick walked past Daisy and I and it scared the out n out bahjesus out of her and she took flight. Three people went to catch her as she was falling six feet to the hard tile floor. I was the one who caught her but she (Daisy) was the one who latched onto my middle finger on my right hand shredding parts of it and chipping bone. Put myself in harms way to try to keep her from breaking a leg or ribs or something. I don't have photos but ended up with two whole little stiches on the biggest cut which bled like mad and bruised up my whole finger and part of my hand.

I have another really bad bite but that's a LONG story. The short version is that I got tagged by a 11 foot male albino Retic (not my snake) in my right temple, that's right folks on my face. I got SO freaking lucky. But it put me in the hospital because he severed an artery I was losing a lot of blood FAST. When I did get back to my house it looked like someone had been murdered. Blood ALL over the kitchen (where the bite occurred), part of the living room (from my running to the closest bathroom) and ALL over the bathroom. I tried for 25 minutes on my own to get the blood to stop all the while I was filling up hand towels and then was rushed to the ER. Many many hours late I came home to what looked like a murder scene in my house. Thankfully working for a hospital I was able to get cleaning supplies to remove the blood and fully sterilize. I had tan colored carpet to. Any way. Those are my two BAD bite stories.
 
I know its horrible, but while thinking of your story Christine, I couldn't help but think of you running around squirting blood everywhere. Does this make me a sick ####?
 
I got bit in the eye by a 6' Costa Rican boa. Punctured my eye lid and was squirting blood everywhere. I had a black eye for a while.

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Utta said:
I know its horrible, but while thinking of your story Christine, I couldn't help but think of you running around squirting blood everywhere. Does this make me a sick ####?
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If that makes you sick then I must be a real whacko! I was laughing my arse off when I got home (could have been delirium from blood loss) because all I kept thinking of was how it must of looked with blood squirting out. Swear it was like the knight in Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail movie. I mean it really just squirted a lot of blood out. :rofl: Shoot. Thinking back now it still makes me laugh.
 
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