Bitten by your pet?

Oh yeah, I forgot.. my salamander bites at the air every time I open his lid, and if you touch his mouth, he'll grab on and 'shake' like a dog playing tug of war. Too cute!

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Originally Posted by Shelby

What's a pacman frog bite like? I always wondered.. and what do you have to do to provoke that response?

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It hurts to provoke it really nothing I was just taking him out to clean his enclosure and wack right on the thumb.

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Originally Posted by Shelby

How was the T bite? I don't want to get bit/stung by my T or scorp..

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The acutal bite from the 3/4" T hurt more than either of the nips I've gotten from my baby snakes. It didn't really hurt that much, it's the venom you have to be concerned about. No tarantula bite has ever killed.

Different species, different venoms, different reactions. Old World t's have a "nastier" bite.

Here's a straight copy and paste from the bite reports on AB.

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Time about 630 at night. Opened up vial to mist.

"Industry", my 3/4" Iridopelma hirsutum, walked out of the container, and began walking around and around the vial. In trying to get her back in the vial I end up with Industry walking all over my arms, both hands, my pant leg, and then I manage to get her into a far to large deli cup. Unforunately, that is the cup I use to dust crickets in for my crested geckos, so she can't stay in that.

In getting her into the deli cup, she takes a bite into the fleshy side part of my left hand (side near the pinky).

I quickly inspect my hand, and it's starting to throb very very faintly and seems to be going slightly numb. In numbness/throbbing on a scale of 1 to 10, I give this a 1, with 10 being the most numb/throbbing.

After refilling a larger vial twice, I manage to get her into a larger vial as a new home.

The bite itself shows no visible marks, but the pinky area and the bite itself seems to be more numb than the rest of the hand. No swelling, and finger joints of my left hand seem to be a little stiff.

EDIT: No noticeable signs after 2 hours.

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This happened sometime in early december. This T has been finally been proven to be a Chaco and I'm certain it was a bite.

I was putting the Chaco back into the container, while I was wearing gloves (I react to the urticating hairs). It had walked on to the back of my right hand. The chaco was three inches at the time. Unforunately, even though I was being quite careful, it started to slip a little bit as I was putting it back in it's container. It panicked and apparently used it's fangs to help hold on.

I was not sure I had been bitten until after I washed my hands and sat back down at the computer. I later pulled out the gloves and examined them for a bite mark. There were two tiny little holes in the gloves. Right hand ring finger was bitten. Right ring finger turned slightly reddish, and was slightly swollen. I don't recall much, if any pain. I did have a strong itching burning sensation however. About an hour or two later I went to bed without any problems. No swelling in the finger the next day, and no burning sensation.

I was rather concerned for a couple of days, about the tarantula having bitten latex but it was (and is) fine. So there you go, there's my stupid newbie bite experience.

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Oh yeah, and every time the cat has bitten me (I was stupid to let her play bite) has hurt way more than being bitten by anything else.

You know what's really no fun? Getting bit by a parrot. I like to think it's comparable to putting a chunk of your skin in a vise, and tightening it until it hurts so much, the area goes numb.
Yeah, I was at my neighbors house watching her kid for the night. Their parrot is quite the moody fellow. You can tell he was never trained or handled as a young bird. Anything put in front of him, he bites. He grabbed a hold of a chunk of my right forearm. That was thursday when it happened, and right now it's still tender and bruised. Oh well, he's full of character I guess.

Not at all related to reptiles though...hmm... :no:

hmm, i've been bitten by my sister's bearded dragon and by a couple of my cresteds. nothing really of note though. i was feeding the beardie some fruit and he grabbed my finger. one of my cresteds bit me because i startled him when he was sleeping--i would barely have noticed that he even bit me except that he was hanging from my finger for a second. the other crested bit me when i handed her a cricket--she will grab them right out of my fingers which i find cute so i offer them that way occassionally. guess she was hungrier than normal cuz she attempted to down the first half of my finger along with with cricket. more cute than anything else. :)

I have been bitten by these various pets of mine:

Female, mama rat. That had to be the worst. Feels like someone squeezing a pliers on your finger and not letting go. Bled a lot too. I was only trying to take one of her babies to feed to a snake :looks around innocently:

Cat. Inky bit me once when I was trying to give him a bath. He despises, loathes and hates water, unless it's in his drinking bowl.

Snakes. I got bit by a pine snake at my friend's pet store; more of a shock than anything else. I also got bites frrom two different BPs of mine, and my boa. All were misstrikes intended for food items, and I was the dummy who was responsible for that. Tongs help!

My old pacman frog bit me. He would actually squeak and hiss at you if you tried to pick him up or misted him with water. It hurt; I was bleeding. He had clamped down on my finger. The horned frog I have now is not at all aggressive, and in fact does not even eat much either!

My african cichlids will nibble on my fingers if I am feeding them!

My BP has never even so much as struck or hissed at me, knock on wood. I learned long ago, tongs are my friend. :D The only time he's ever even gotten remotely moody was when I first got him and was trying to move him into his new enclosure. Shouldn't have tried to handle him at that point anyway.

My roommate's dog is a Pomeranian and he's a little @@@@. He'll bite you at the drop of a hat. So yeah, he's tagged me a few times. But he's old and she'd have a heart attack if I disciplined him (Lord knows she never does), so he gets away with it. I've gotten a couple decent gashes from my German Shepherd's teeth, but that's all been in good fun while we're wrestling, so I don't really count that. Guess I've been lucky thus far!

Dogs (small) cats, spiders, scorpion (pinched and stung), Nile monitor, water monitor, Amazon tree boa, many a' small retic, burms and various small giants. Beardies, leopard gex, many o many tokays, and various geckos. Turtles (yup they can bite too). Various birds (no parrots or conures, I'd probably die), too many rodents, Iguanas, colubreds. That bull X corn strikes when you walk by his enclosure. And on...
I will say that I have been bitten more in my younger years while working at various pet stores. Unloading sick and injured animals gets you bitten; I in no way blame them. I've also been put in the position of finding inappropriately boxed animals on our doorstep; I'll never forget when someone decided to box half a dozen Tokays in a shoebox. I'm glad I opened that box indoors, but still not fun.
Rusty
PS Winslow never gets bitten, I think he can count his bites on one hand, lucky guy.

I know this is an old post, but always an interesting topic :P
My list so far (in the 3 months or so ive been dealing with herps)
3 corn snakes (only one bite out of probably 40 left a mark, and that still didnt hurt)
12 black rat snakes (hatchlings that hadnt gotten over the OH MY GOD ITS A HUGE PREDATOR reflex) Those were the type where you wouldnt know you had been bitten if you hadnt been watching
a leopard gecko, which despite the earlier post can be kinda rough. It bit as it was jumping away from me, so it latched on, then those little teeth slid across my knuckle, cutting just like a steak knife, bled alot, and took nearly a week to heal.

as far as fish go, several convict cichlids, a figure 8 puffer(both of which were just funny)

I've been bit a number of times by our macaw, twice by a horse, several times by my cats and once by my BP. The macaw bites are by far the worst, shes left scars. I had to beg my husband to let me have her, and now she hates me and loves him. :confused: