BP Bites

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Originally Posted by Rob

I would take a full grown female's bite over a rodent bite any day! Those are the things that hurt like heck!

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My black lab would agree. He got a little too close to mama rat's cage, and she took a chunk out of his ear... took 3 trips to the vet to finally make the bleeding stop. :rat:

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Originally Posted by Rob

I would take a full grown female's bite over a rodent bite any day! Those are the things that hurt like heck!

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This x 1,000!!! :O

I've been bite once or twice by the bp's. They usually miss cause their aim is horrible. And when they do get you it's usually a small hit and rarely do they latch. They really don't hurt much at all. Now a retic bite is a whole different thing.

Was bit by a 1500+ gr female a month ago or so. Drew pretty good blood and pulled about three teeth out of my hand. The third was a week after the fact. My fault though. I handled my dachshund right before, and got my hand in front of the hungry girl. I think the scent and the heat were the right combination to invoke the attack. Smarted a bit. But such a dumb act on my part. Always wash the hands before and after handling. :colbert:

When I first got Dannie she was very fussy and about 2 months or so after I'd had her, she struck at me when I was picking her up to change the paper towels. She didn't bite but her teeth skimmed my finger and it bled a little but didn't hurt. Probably not the answer you were looking for though, and a lot of other people seemed to have answered it anyways lol :)

Although not to hijack, but I have a question about it: I just remembered that when Dannie skimmed my finger it probably barely broke the skin but kept bleeding for a little while (maybe 15 or 20 minutes), longer than any normal cut I've gotten, but not a lot of blood. Maybe it's just my skin or something but is it possible BP's have something in their saliva, like leeches, that temporarily prevents clotting? Probably a dumb question but I can't figure that out :P (Edit: although when I think of it there's really no reason they would need to keep their prey's blood from clotting...)

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Originally Posted by Rob

I would take a full grown female's bite over a rodent bite any day! Those are the things that hurt like heck!

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Same here!

It feels like paper cut, the only bite that was slightly more painful was from a Large female, she got my knuckle :rolleyes: but still nothing compare to what some other snake can do, and I'll take a BP bite over a rat bite any day :gj:

Paper cuts are NOT ALL SET!

If I ever need to feed a stubborn/baby bp a live rodent, I'm going to be wearing some serious thick leather gloves. It's unlikely I'll ever do that with my snakes.

The few times I've been struck at I was like this:
http://i.imgur.com/Bp9an.gif

I haven't been bit yet, but I'm thinking there is nothing to fear but fear itself in this case.

I had a female rat for a pet once and she took a good chunk of my skin off one day when I was holding her. Worst bite I have ever encountered. I would totally rather get bitten by one of my snakes any day over a rat!

I just got a black pastel and she snapped at me, it scared the crap outta me, lol. It was a close call, but I'm it was the first of many, lol.