POLL: Have you been bit by a BP?

After almost two years of owning nearly 20 BPs I just got bit last night by a little 200g female Orange Dream. Quite funny. I pulled out the V-18 tub, reached in, grabbed the bowl to change the water, pulled back, she nailed me on my pointer finger, I jerked and spilt water all down my shirt :gj: :rofl:. Hilarious because I didnt even feel it really but it bled quite a lot.

Yep! Once! Due to me being irresponsible by not sanitizing my hands after having my hand in a bag of mice.

never bee bit by a bp but had an albino gopher snake a while back beautiful snake but really snappy nearly every time I went to handle him he would get me once he was out he was fine

just got a new female who has been nutz! she holds her body real tight and follows my hand motion! but she always snaps back instead of forward lol

Not yet--Nigel wouldn't dream of it (but I'll always assume that he would, and could, and might). Stan is jumpy but not bitey. Jack is just waiting for the chance, being a skittish baby. He strikes a lot right now, but he hasn't managed to tag me or my husband. Yet.

The BPs I have are pretty chill except one that hisses sometimes. But none of them are bitey except when feeding day comes around.

Sometimes my black pastel strikes a little off, and one time he accidentally got me while feeding f/t. It was very strange, because it didn't hurt but I could see the marks where his teeth had gotten me. It felt like needles.

Been bit by a baby bp my baby carpet python and i got tagged by my baby columbian rainbow boa

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Neither of my girls have ever bit me so far. My oldest one likes to hiss, but after her two vet debacles, I honestly don't think she'll ever bite a person...run away? Yes lol!

I get a new hypo butterbee baby next week, so we'll see if my luck holds haha!


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never been bit by my bp. my butter pastel girl got a little defensive when i reach in the bag to grab her the first night. just some huffing and puffing.

my carpet on the other hand thinking its feeding time every time i open the tub and would fly out at me, she is also very very agile not slow like the bps.

Not yet, but I'm a new owner. However with that being said , my male is very, very laid back.

I stopped counting now. Its, a lot

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2 snakes. I struck at me bc I put it where I normally feed it because I was cleaning her tub and she struck at my hand when I tried to get her out in a feeding response. My male never struck

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I've got hissed at, but never bit.

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Wish I wouldn't have voted on this poll. My answer would be different now. Proud new member of the bite club!

Ive never been bit.. but my new lesser spider has struck at my hand while ive been holding him in one hand n playing tablet with the other, i figure the movement caught his eye n my finger was about perfect heat signature size... ive owned balls since 2007

I've been bit plenty of times as a kid by different species of snakes, turtles, and lizards. As I became more knowledgeable from different sources and my own experience. I haven't been bit since. It's been 15+ years since I've been bit. It happens to the best of us even the most experienced. I'm either lucky or have quick reflexes lol.


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1.0 Pastel
1.0 Het Clown
0.1 66% Het Clown, 50% Het Pied
0.1 Anerythristic Corn snake

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Funny actually thinking about it. No.
I have been bit by green trees, carpets, king snake and the worst was an adult woma python. How funny.

I'm a very new owner, so perhaps more bites are forthcoming but, thus far, I've only been "tagged" once -- when I was trying to replace the water dish in the cage. The store had warned me that he had made a number of "closed mouth" strikes..it was incredibly quick, and it startled me more than it hurt...but the blood flowed like a river!

Oddly enough I've never been bit by any of ball pythons, now my carpets that's a different story!http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/10/za5etepu.jpg
That is a feed response bite from my 7footer!


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Been bit by plenty of dogs, even a guinea pig (those guys scare me now, haha) but never by my nor any of my friends snakes.

Funny story actually, I got bit by 3 of mine in the same feeding session as I put pups in 2 bit my fingers instead. And the last one bit me in the forehead lol.. After I put the pup in I dropped a bag and tried to pick it up before I put the tub back in the rack lol...

I did the noobest thing possible today. So I take my albino to a local reptile shop to feed. The worker puts a rat in the tub she's in. My bp doesn't look at the rat and is hanging off the edge of the tub. So I reach to guide her back in the tub ( I don't know why I did or what I was thinking) and a few seconds later. She strikes. Hits my middle finger. It didn't hurt too bad. But her fangs are sharp as a mfer. This is my first time being bit.

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Not yet.

But I have a feeling it's gonna happen soon. Probably frm my mojave. She really doesn't like me. 😄

Strikes at me whenever I have to clean her tank or change out her water.


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I have had them strike but never been bitten.When I first get a new snake I wear gloves,they hate the taste and never try again.I have been bit several times by rock and Burmese pythons and those bites are not a good time,the force behind them is amazing!

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Yup. 2500 gram female mistook my hand for a rat. I now open her tub with a hook for feeding.


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Got my first bp bite last while feeding my desert enchi he missed the mouse and got my hand. Was kind of funny my nephew freaked out and i had no reaction

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My super pastel was only weeks old when I got him so he's bitten me more than I count just because he was so young. Now he's fine and doesn't strike anymore. But my larger spider got excited for a rat and struck early (while I was trying to put the rat in the tub) and got ahold of my hand. Left a few little dots on me, but she's never done it besides that time.


1.0 axanthic (Cash)
1.0 super pastel (Jax)
0.1 spider (Nala)
1.0 lesser (Leonardo)
0.1 mojave (Sandy)

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Yup. 2500 gram female mistook my hand for a rat. I now open her tub with a hook for feeding.


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The hook wasn't used to replace your hand, I hope? D:
Kidding. I'm sure that wasn't a fun experience, though.

I've only been struck at once, and it was admittedly my own fault. My ball was pre-shed and wasn't quite showing signs. It'd been about two days before her last meal, so I felt confident in handling her, and she'd left urates in her enclosure fairly close to the hide. So I figured I'd take her out, clean up her mess real quick, and set her back in good as new. I reached in, ran my hand along her back the way I did every other time I'd handled her, but this time she hissed at me. I ignored it, putting the need to have the cage cleaned above her not wanting to be handled, figuring she'd go back to her normal docile behavior when I took her out of her cage. And that's when she struck me. Just once. I didn't even feel anything at the time, because she was maybe six months old and still fairly small. As I was putting her back, I happened to notice the small scratches from where her fangs had scratched the first few layers of skin on the back of my hand. Nothing major. I chalked it up to it being her way of telling me she didn't want to be messed with. And the evidence was the single shed I found in her cage a couple of days later.

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The hook wasn't used to replace your hand, I hope? D:
Kidding. I'm sure that wasn't a fun experience, though.

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haha no. A snake hook is now used to open the tub. It wasn't horrible, but it's definitely not an experience I want to repeat.

I have yet to be bitten by my adult male ball python. He has hissed at me once or twice. I had to remove his hide and he was in shed. I never knew he was in the hide and when I took it off he wasn't happy haha!

Can't see the poll on my phone. Only had my BP for two years and has never even tried to bite me.

I uses hook for adult bps and when they r super hungry they attacked haha but never got me (yet)

Nope. Not even a closed mouth strike or even a coil. Mine never lock on target unless a rat is around. Then it's full on Titanfall smart pistol. :)

Finn my female I've had from a baby tagged me and my son a couple times. Don't blame her tho. I rescued her from a guy who thought a pinkie a week was a full meal for her. Needless to say she was always hungry so Tryed to tag everything when we first got her. Ohh and the female that just layed eggs got me twice so far while trying to spot clean.

No, I have never been beaten by BP.

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Originally Posted by manuuman

No, I have never been beaten by BP.

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How can a bp beat you? Lol

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Originally Posted by bigt0006

How can a bp beat you? Lol

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A couple of mine have slapped me across the face with their tails while debating my handling skills. :oops:

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A couple of mine have slapped me across the face with their tails while debating my handling skills. :oops:

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Lol. My bp stuck her tail up my nose once while trying to climb on my head. Them tails are sharp. Lol.

I've owned snakes for over 2 years now. Was only ever bit by one of my own once, when he was a hatchling.
Just in the last few months, I've been working as an assistant for a local breeder and I've been bit a bunch of times there. He has hundreds of snakes, though so the odds are definitely higher. :P

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Tagged whilst removing his water bowl. I shocked him and so it was my fault.

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Just got a little bite about 30 mins ago. Moved my hand a little to fast while holding him in the other..

I haven't been bit(yet?) but my camera sure has!

It hasn't quite been a year yet, but my ball python has yet to even strike at anything (other than food)

Feeding error, moving the thawed rat over with my hand instead of the hemostats..My son was bitten on the leg by a fairly large bp, not sure what happened but I think he scared it. Barely made little pink spots. Seriously if I had to compare, my childrens python hurts more, I think his teeth are longer or sharper, or he is just more determined then the bps are.

I haven't been bit but two weeks ago my son was bit in the head by a 12 foot Retic and received 10 staples. How's that for a first time bite story! :O

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I haven't been bit but two weeks ago my son was bit in the head by a 12 foot Retic and received 10 staples. How's that for a first time bite story! :O

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kinda snake is that?

Never, I've had my fella about 10 years now and if anything he protects his momma... He has only bitten 2 ppl in those 10 years... Go figure... Both ex boyfriends ;)

I haven't been bitten yet neither has my husband. We have tried to make him bite us and he hasn't. Iv not seen him strike at anything but food!! I hope it stays that way. Ours is around a lot of kids. They love him