What does a bite from a ball python feel like?

the shock is most always greater then the actual bite.

Never by a BP

I got bit by my BP when changing his hides mid-day... it felt like a thump it's the shock that gets you.

Man king's suck lmao! I had one at scales N tails just twist on me, I thought I was holding a croc. Lol but my baby pythons strike fast never latched though.
The teeth are sharp you dont even feel it. My paradox Pin though is on steroids. Im scared of him cause he loves to bite you in the neck. Stupid, yes i can be. But I say the softer skin area is were your gon feel something.

I've been bitten by a 2000 grams Bp. It was a defensive bite, so I was more shocked than hurt :). A bit from a hamster hurts more than a Bp's defensive bite

nothing to worry about, a paper cut

I was bitten by my normal when he was around 1200g. It was a feeding bite, not a defensive (totally my fault). He latched onto my hand, coiled with the full intention of killing my hand, and getting him to let go was the "fun" part.

It bled a lot but it hurt my feelings more than my hand! :rolleyes:

yeah i finally got bit last week by a boa, then some balls that I just got in.

Verrry weird too cuz they were nice when I took them out of there sacks, set there tubs up, went to handle em a couple of days later and they werent too happy. I've only been nailed by 1000gram male. I got a 2400 gram female now, don't know what thats like but I imagine it being nothing. The other guy felt like litteraly nothing! I didn't even feel it! You feel the snakes nose more then anythign hitting your hand or where ever its biting. Deff nothign to worry about.

the first time I got bit it was cuz I was holding a mouse and he missed and he wrapped around my hand and it didn't hurt at all... I was more concerned with how I was going to get him off lol

First it's a quick burst of pain. You are shocked to realize you were just bitten, but you think it's not so bad. But within seconds, the area bitten begins to swell with increasingly concentrated pain as a bluish black mass emerges and eventually ruptures, revealing the inside of your skin. You panic in fear as you reach for the phone, but you are overwhelmed by a sudden rush of fatigue and nausea. You become light headed and pass out, and you wake up in the emergency room, only to see stitches being sown into your open fresh wound.



Oh wait that's a black widow, sorry. Being bit by bp doesn't hurt, in fact it's kind of cute to see your snake's face after he/she bit you. :banana:

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Originally Posted by omnibus2

First it's a quick burst of pain. You are shocked to realize you were just bitten, but you think it's not so bad. But within seconds, the area bitten begins to swell with increasingly concentrated pain as a bluish black mass emerges and eventually ruptures, revealing the inside of your skin. You panic in fear as you reach for the phone, but you are overwhelmed by a sudden rush of fatigue and nausea. You become light headed and pass out, and you wake up in the emergency room, only to see stitches being sown into your open fresh wound.



Oh wait that's a black widow, sorry. Being bit by bp doesn't hurt, in fact it's kind of cute to see your snake's face after he/she bit you. :banana:

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Hahahahaha! That made me actually lol.:8:

Being bit by a 24 inch juvie feels like sandpaper. You wonder "what the heck just happened", because its too fast for your eyes to see. It bleeds quite a bit, though.

I have been bit a few times by one of my crazy 4000g females. She is insane when food is in the room and when I open the tub to feed her sometimes she'll come out after me. I can usually avoid it but when she gets me it certainly doesn't feel like a pin prick. I usually find a few teeth in my hand for weeks afterwards.

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First it's a quick burst of pain. You are shocked to realize you were just bitten, but you think it's not so bad. But within seconds, the area bitten begins to swell with increasingly concentrated pain as a bluish black mass emerges and eventually ruptures, revealing the inside of your skin. You panic in fear as you reach for the phone, but you are overwhelmed by a sudden rush of fatigue and nausea. You become light headed and pass out, and you wake up in the emergency room, only to see stitches being sown into your open fresh wound.

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omg can i use this in my signature space? LOLOLOLOLLLlalglfdkjhlsjbjjl;'.//....................

I have not been bitten by my juvie bp's yet. I have been bitten by a California king snake while attempting to feed it at work (old job at a ma and pa pet shop back in 2004). I was wearing gloves because I was a wuss, the gloves were those fuzzy leather ones. Go figure, I got tagged. Not the snake's fault. I slipped the glove off with the snake still attached and put him back into his home. I felt bad, that snake really really thought that glove was a mouse. He didn't let the glove go for a few days. The bite wasn't that bad, the constricting scared me.

stick a 9 volt square battery on you tongue feels about the same but if you have braces dont do it, lol

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omg can i use this in my signature space? LOLOLOLOLLLlalglfdkjhlsjbjjl;'.//....................

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Sure, just credit me for the quote.

Whenever someone asks me this question, I tell them it looks like I had a fight with a straight pin (and lost). :D Most of the time, it doesn't even hurt or bleed much at all. Just some pin pricks and a surprised snake.

If you take the Hard half of velcro, an slap your skin pretty quick with it, it feels exactly like a bite...

depends on it's size :)

I've been bit a lot by my guys. Always either defensively or when I smelled too much like a rat or an ASF. They never hurt much, but bites from larger ones definitely draw some blood.

But I honestly think that bites from ASFs are more annoying. They just keep trying to
bite you and sometimes don't let go. I've lifted an adult an entirely out of it's cage with it still grabbing on to my hand with it's nasty little teeth.

And a bit from a large normal rat? Forget about it, those hurt so much more than snake bites it's not even funny.

Imagine the worst pain you have ever felt in your life multiply in times 1000...then forget all that.
Have you ever been scratched by a kitten?:rolleyes:

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I've been bit a lot by my guys. Always either defensively or when I smelled too much like a rat or an ASF. They never hurt much, but bites from larger ones definitely draw some blood.

But I honestly think that bites from ASFs are more annoying. They just keep trying to
bite you and sometimes don't let go. I've lifted an adult an entirely out of it's cage with it still grabbing on to my hand with it's nasty little teeth.

And a bit from a large normal rat? Forget about it, those hurt so much more than snake bites it's not even funny.

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Razor sharp teeth that can and will slice and dice. Rat bites are badass compared to a BP bite.

Personally I think a bite from a mouse hurts more then a Ball python bite.

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Personally I think a bite from a mouse hurts more then a Ball python bite.

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my mice dont bite at all

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my mice dont bite at all

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I think the mice that I'm talking about know whats coming to them and decide to give me one heck of a nibble.

I was bitten my my 350 gram male and didn't feel a thing. I thought he had struck with his mouth closed until I noticed I was bleeding.

It feels interesting, I'll say that. The one time I've been bitten was by a sub-adult that was rescued from a crack-addict, believe it or not, and I WAS to adopt him, but I took the bite as a sign. lol

Either way, it's a quick prick when it goes in, and you almost feel nothing until the snake finally decides to twist off, releasing it's teeth.

If you haven't been told already, one method I learned to get a snake to release is to put their head under running water.

In my 13 years or so of handling snakes, I've only ever been bitten by snakes of any kind twice, and both times they were baby ball pythons at the pet store where I work. I think I'm just really careful and also don't mess with anything aggressive in general, heh.

The first time I was bit, it was feeding day, so I guess the baby was just pretty eager. I only felt a slight sting and was just kinda "eh, whatever".

The second time I was bit, it was actually kind of funny. I was approached by a customer who was really interested in buying a ball python, but he told me he was somewhat fearful of getting bitten. I told him basically what I just wrote above, and how ball pythons are great snakes who are usually very docile, not likely to bite, yadda yadda yadda. I always of course mention in my spiel a disclaimer that anything that does have a mouth CAN bite, but that doesn't mean that they will, how babies can be a little more bitey because they feel vulnerable, but that it's nothing to worry about, etc. Of course, as I'm talking and pulling out a baby to show him, the baby bites me. I didn't feel a thing, didn't even notice, but the customer asked "did it just bite you?!" and I looked down and saw two tiny dots of blood. "Guess so..." I said, "well, you don't want this one then, let's try another!" He bought the second snake I pulled out, and still comes in once a week to buy mice and to report that things are going well with his new pet. :P

Bites from snakes this small are not a big deal at all... especially if they dont wrap you.

it doesnt hurt it just scares you because they move so fast when they strike but no pain just a little blood

The strike is more scary then the bite. I am more scared for the snake getting teeth stuck in me and dealing with mouth rot. I have been bitten 3 times and I always say wow! After because the strike is superfast and the bite is nothing.I have been bitten by a hermit crab now that pain :)

ive been bitten so many times over the years i couldnt give u an exact number but i can tell you it does not hurt at all. Like others stated once u get bit once youll be over the fear of it. Its normally more blood than anything and once u wipe it away theres tiny little teeth marks. Now a large boa or large burm etc will do some damage but these tiny ball pythons dont hurt at all.