Animal bites...Discuss!

I think my worst have been either rodent or cat bites. Rodents all terrify me. Birds can definitely hurt quite a bit, I won't get near anything bigger than a medium conure.

We've got fire ants down here in Phx. They suck. When I was little I once saw some like straight Nat. Geo stuff in my back yard. We had one of those blue plastic kiddie wading pools and I guess the fire ant colony decided to move to other side, there was like a giant any body raft/bridge thing, just hundreds and hundreds of dead ants stretching from one side almost halfway across and they were still building toward that side. The queen and a bunch of larva and eggs were on top. It was pretty cool to see but a bit retarded considering they could've just *walked* around. Stupid ants. My mom got the hose and drowned the rest.

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Get the sticky/bristly side of a piece of velcro. Place it on your hand/arm/whatever. Thump it with your finger. You've now experienced a ball python bite, minus a bit of blood.

RODENT BITES! Oh my goodness rodent bites, I hate them. It's one of the biggest reasons I don't breed the suckers (other than smell). There are some pet rats I've met that I eventually got comfortable with, but as a general rule I just avoid anything with giant piercing teeth that don't stop growing. Hurts like a b**** and they almost always get infected. A friend of mine keeps rabbits and while I'll temporarily restrain/hold them while she cleans, I just can't stand having them for long because they'll do this test nibbling on things and it makes my hair stand on end.

Horses can give you a good nip too. We had a shetland pony who'd give you some teethmarks bruised into your butt while leading him around (usually during pony rides for kids, was a saint around them! I think it was his version of horseplay :rolleyes: ). Loved him though, cute little guy.

Yeah, it's startling to get a BP bite, but it's about as damaging as the velcro example above

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Originally Posted by h00blah

Does a sting count?

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I think so because everyone is talking about fire ants, which are stinging insects, just like their cousin the wasp.

For me, rat bites suck. Luckily properly socialized pet rats almost never bite and our feeders are handled a lot from birth, so they aren't very bitey. Out of the thousands of rats we've bred and fed off, neither of us have taken a bite out of aggression. I did however get bitten from an elderly pet rat when he had a seizure in my hands. That sucked. On that note, all rodent bites such. I couldn't tell you how many times I've been lit up by pet hamsters as a child. Evil little creatures!

Hookbills scare the crap out of me too. Even little parakeets pinch like crazy. I've had a few conures draw blood just playing around and I've seen what a macaw can do to a 2x4 in a matter of minutes. Nothing but respect there.

I've gotten a few nips from dogs as well. Never fun.

I'll take a bite from all our snakes before I'll take one from any of the above.

Rat bites can be brutal, if they actually bite you (not just nip). I stuck my hand in the middle of a (pet) rat quarrel and was bit as a result. Caused my finger to swell up 2 or 3 times its normal size and even turn colors, and hurt for days, maybe as long as a week. I think the nerve may have been nicked to cause that kind of pain, but that could be an exaggeration too.

Little birds can be surprisingly painful too. They can grab on and really pinch. I haven't had a bird actually draw blood, but both wild and pet birds really hurt. I've been bit by parakeets, lovebirds, blackbirds, finches, sparrows, cowbirds, and maybe a few others I am not remembering. Not a good feeling.

Mice can be pretty unpleasant too. I've been bit by both domestic and wild mice. A few times they've drawn blood. Painful each time, but so far have not been bit bad enough to hurt for days.

Cat scratches and bites are not fun either, and are prone to infection. Horse bites hurt too, depending on how bad they get you. The time I was bit wasn't too bad, just a bad scrape, but it still hurt quite a bit.

The time I was bit by my ball python was nothing compared to these.