Bitten by your pet?

captive herps that ive been bitten by are my female ball, and my western fence lizard. im supprised my ackies hasnt bit me yet. he's not aggressive in any way.

the wild ones are where it gets good, lol. in the wild ive been bitten by alligaor lizards, gilberts skinks, bunches of garter snakes, "unidentified" whipsnake-type snake near a pond, and a northern pacific rattlesnake, with the worst being the rattlesnake ofcourse.

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Originally Posted by mr~python

a northern pacific rattlesnake, with the worst being the rattlesnake ofcourse.

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Was it a 'dry' bite?

nope, one whole fang in the tip of my middle finger. envenomation. i squeezed the blood out of my finger like crazy and squeezed my finger to stop blood flow and it ended up not being to bad. thank God i knew what to do or else i would have been a hurtin unit.

i can actually feel where there is no more tissue in the tip of my finger. you can't see it but when you touch it you can tell its a really soft "crater".

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Originally Posted by mr~python

nope, one whole fang in the tip of my middle finger. thank God i knew what to do or else i would have been a hurtin unit.

i can actually feel where there is no more tissue in the tip of my finger. you can't see it but when you touch it you can tell its a really soft "crater".

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Did you have anti-venom administered? If so, how many vials.

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I was just wondering how many of you have been bitten by your snakes before.

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Tyler Durden (RTB) bit me on Monday. He is about 8 feet. He caught me under the jawbone in the neck, and on my chin. It didn't really hurt, but its been sore ever since.

I have heard African Rocks have a pretty mean bite.

I dont recommend kissing your snake by the way.

Kissing snakes is just asking for them to nip ya right back. LOL I've seen way to many people do this and have that happen.

I've been bitten by a few horses, a few cats, a dog or three, my LTR snake, a turtle, a toad, a ferret, a few rats & mice....

I play safe and kiss a coil while the head is pointed away. I do wonder though if they are likely to bite when they are approaching your face voluntarily while exploring (like they do) or if it is rather you going towards their face to kiss them that would give a reflex bite action. The only reptile of mine I've been bitten by is my smallest rankin dragon haha it was over-excitement on his part when feeding him a worm. The other time was a friend's kingsnake that went down my top and latched onto my chest :O Neither bites hurt.


Ditto what people said earlier about parrots though - they are some of the worst biters because of their quick mood swings (in Amazons anyway). But I can read mine's body language now and know when to touch him.

Thank God my sav has never bitten me I'd sure know about that!! But savs I've found are like parrots - no amount of lizard keeping could prepare me for a sav, but I've found having a parrot means I can easily read sav body language.

ive been bitten by my 10 foot burms to 1 foot cornsnakes. worst bite was from a wc retic at 12 foot. venomous was from a monacled cobra. 19 viles later(barely a fang grazed my finger) and im fine. one of my most painful"bites" if you can call it that was from my brothers giant baseball sized hermit crab lol i was holding it and its claw grabbed my face(my bro told my to kiss it for a dollar lol) it held on for about a minute and then let go lol. most painful amphib bite is from a large pyxie(like a pacman sort of) frog. i had to surgicly get a part of my index finger put back on lol.

i have never been biten by my bps thank god, nor do i care to. but i was biten by another persons dog while i was trying to break my pitbull off of him... thaat really sucked... he go tout, saw a man walking his dog and took that big wolf down, the man started whacking my pit to get him to stop but every pit owner knows that that is the last thing you do... so i held his dog down to stop the trashing my pit was doing, and my friend grabbed the stick to break him and thats when the dog lifted her head and bit me... i still have the scars...

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Did you have anti-venom administered? If so, how many vials.

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nope, never had any antivenom administered. the swelling didnt progress too much after i got to the hospital and after a couple hours they let me go. it hurt like hell though.