First Time Tagged...with Pics

Yesterday was feeding day and I was weighing my biggest girl. I picked her up off the scale and next thing I know I'm being bit. Luckily I didn't see her strike or else I think I would have dropped her. Well anyway, here's the pics my room-mate took. I'm oddly proud of it...my first time being bit...and it was my biggest girl...at least I know that it couldn't be any worse...lol

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...ordanbite1.jpg

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...Jordanbite.jpg

http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/g...ordanbite2.jpg

I've never seen her exhibit any form of aggression before. In fact, I consider her one of my most docile and easy-going snakes. I'm pretty sure that I was just mistaken as food.

Hi,

:welcome: to bite club.;)

The first rule of bite club is...... we post pictures ( so :gj: so far ).


dr del

How big is she? I know the first one that is going to tag me is going to be one of our big girls and I just want an idea of the damage a 1800 gram or 1600 gram girl does.

lol, congrats!! i didnt get bit nearly that good. i know what you mean about being proud. awesome pics :gj: so i must ask. did it hurt

She's a solid 1500 grams. Yes it hurt (like I could feel the teeth in my finger..) but it wasn't excruciating or anything like that. The shock of being tagged was much worse than the actual bite. :D

Welcome to Bite Club! You know you're a real herper when you get bit and the first thing you think to do is yell..."quick somebody grab a camera!" :D

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Originally Posted by PigsnPythons

I'm oddly proud of it...

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If you like snakes... obviously.... then its not odd hahah
there is a 7 foot coastal carpet at the pet store by me that i wanted to hold and the lady wouldnt let me, because it has shown signs of aggression... and i told her i would be honored to get bit by that snake...
she looked at me like i was wack (i prolly am) but its the truth haha

Let us know if you bruise tomorrow. I'm new to BP's, but back when I was 18 (I'm an old fart now) I got tagged by my 7+ ft. Boa, and he bit me right in the face (does that mean I too am in bite club?). It didn't hurt that bad...I was mostly shocked at what happened. But when I woke up the next morning the whole side of my face was bruised badly...I actually looked like I had been in a bad bar fight. Try explaining to your coworkers that your snake bit you when they joke that you lost the fight! :oops:

Too bad there were no digital camera's back then...in the stone-age... :rofl:

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Originally Posted by Kerig3

Let us know if you bruise tomorrow. I'm new to BP's, but back when I was 18 (I'm an old fart now) I got tagged by my 7+ ft. Boa, and he bit me right in the face (does that mean I too am in bite club?). It didn't hurt that bad...I was mostly shocked at what happened. But when I woke up the next morning the whole side of my face was bruised badly...I actually looked like I had been in a bad bar fight. Try explaining to your coworkers that your snake bit you when they joke that you lost the fight! :oops:

Too bad there were no digital camera's back then...in the stone-age... :rofl:

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You took a bite to the face from an over 7 foot boa! Heck you can be King of the Bite Club! :rofl:

I'm pretty lucky - with all the snakes we have I've only been tagged once and that was through gloves so it wasn't anything more than a paper cut (heck those hurt worse!) Since I've posted this, this means of course, every snake we own will now consider it a personal challenge to sink their teeth into me in the coming days! :rofl:

I'm ancient too Kerig. I remember back before there were VCR's! How did we ever survive LOL.

Only my pinky fingered bruised, and even then it wasn't really that significant. In the face!!! Wow! :bow:

Jo, you better knock on wood after saying that! About an hour before the bite occured, my room-mate was feeding her snakes and one of them struck at her. I said "Can you believe that neither one of us has gotten tagged yet? A year of ball pythons and 12 snakes between us...you'd think one of them would have gotten us by now..." lol