How many times have you been bitten?

In my 39 years of dealing with snakes both wild and captive I've been bitten at least 75 times by snakes ranging from a small garter to fairly large pythons. I've only been bitten on the face once by my own Eunectes notaeus, stupid mistake on my part, and all of the rest of the bites have been on my arms and hands. I don't use hooks and I don't restrain snakes by the neck so I get bitten occasionally. Getting pooped on, IMHO, is far worse than 99% of non-venomous snakebites.

My BP has never even tried to tag me. My young Bloods, GTP, and Hoggy have all been successful. I lost count of tags from the Bloods and GTP. But it has been a long time now since my last tag.

I went to see some new snakes today at a local breeders and one of them was possessed! I got bitten 8 times in the space of 30 seconds, ball python bites aren't really something to be worried about :) the best way to get over a bite is to get bit again ;)


0.1 Spotnose, 0.1 Fire 0.1 het pied, 1.0 het pied, 1.0 Lesser, 1.0 Pastel, 1.0 Normal

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Originally Posted by Kayak Steve

In my 39 years of dealing with snakes both wild and captive I've been bitten at least 75 times by snakes ranging from a small garter to fairly large pythons. I've only been bitten on the face once by my own Eunectes notaeus, stupid mistake on my part, and all of the rest of the bites have been on my arms and hands. I don't use hooks and I don't restrain snakes by the neck so I get bitten occasionally. Getting pooped on, IMHO, is far worse than 99% of non-venomous snakebites.

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LOL! Agreed. She pee'd and marshmellow'd on me (urates - I call them marshmellows) and it was awful.

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Originally Posted by Jamiesniper

I went to see some new snakes today at a local breeders and one of them was possessed! I got bitten 8 times in the space of 30 seconds, ball python bites aren't really something to be worried about :) the best way to get over a bite is to get bit again ;)


0.1 Spotnose, 0.1 Fire 0.1 het pied, 1.0 het pied, 1.0 Lesser, 1.0 Pastel, 1.0 Normal

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WOW :O I think that's a record. Yeah it's retarded. It didn't hurt - like...at all... so why the heck do I fear being bitten. Maybe it's because I'm afraid she'll clamp down on my finger, ear or something, and I won't be able to get her off.

It's a personal record for me haha! The only bite that's hurt me is from one of my females, she bit me after I stupidly lifted rodents and didn't wash my hands straight after, she bit and held on for a good 15min, I ended up having to dunk her in water, which I hate doing, just to get her to release. Any other bite I've had has happened before I realised, if you know it's going to happen I think it's worse but if it happens suddenly you hardly realise


0.1 Spotnose, 0.1 Fire 0.1 het pied, 1.0 het pied, 1.0 Lesser, 1.0 Pastel, 1.0 Normal

I've been bitten a few times. Most recently I was moving one of my yearlings so I could clean his tub and he tagged me. He hadn't poo'd in a while though, so maybe that's why. I'd be grumpy too. LOL

I've only been bitten once and it was just last night! One of my bumblebee girls completely missed the f/t rat that was hanging off the tongs and grabbed my finger instead. She immediately wrapped my hand and wouldn't let go. I had to run water over her to get her to let go. Not a pleasant experience for me or the snake, but all said and done it wasn't that bad!

My BP has never bit me, but I think that's probably more forgiveness of errors on his part than lack of on mine.


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Probably about 10 times and all from my old corn snake. Doesn't hurt just more startling than anything. He did bite once and didn't let go tho. Sweat he was trying to eat my hand lol. My ball python I've never even been struck by. Hisses every now and again when he's in shed, but apart from that for the 4-5 years I've had him I haven't seen any aggressive behavior from him bbq

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