Got Bit!

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Originally Posted by Fraido

Yikes! x_x I had to look up the teeth on those guys, I cannot imagine. Seeing as this boa's bite was aching quite a bit for the first few minutes, and I can imagine a Burm hurting even more... then to think it could hurt more than that.. no thank you. Lol

Obviously my bite looks like nothing now, just a bunch of pin pricks all over my fingers, haha, and that little bruise. There is one spot, evidence of my instinctive yank, where it looks more like a velociraptor the size of a mouse scratched me, poor guy! God, even though it lasted 2 seconds at the max, the sound of the teeth ripping out was intense.

I'm one to try and avoid bites, like, REALLY avoid them.. At all costs. I am not a fan, lol. A snake has to earn my trust.... ��

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Ya it has been my experience the arborial snakes tend to have longer teeth. They don't tear and make you bleed as much but they are the equivalent of hitting about 50 inter-muscular shots of varying depths in the same 6" square area. The muscle aches for a while.

The scrub python that got me was fairly tame for a scrub python. He was just chilling on my arm and shoulders when it happened. He did not strike or hiss. He slowly turned his head and got close enough to my fore arm that his tongue would touch it then for no reason and in what seemed like slow motion he opened his mouth, bit down, released and went back to his normal chill self.

I guess it was his way ofor reminding me that although he was cool with me he could ruin my day if he wanted to.

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Originally Posted by Snoopyslim

Wowowwow that's a big boy

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Well I was comparing the head of the female to the male's after, and I was very much pleased that I got tagged by him and not one of the big momma's! Their heads have to be at least twice the size of the boys. Sheesh.

So, he is a pretty big boy, but I'm a pretty small girl.;)

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Originally Posted by enginee837

Ya it has been my experience the arborial snakes tend to have longer teeth. They don't tear and make you bleed as much but they are the equivalent of hitting about 50 inter-muscular shots of varying depths in the same 6" square area. The muscle aches for a while.

The scrub python that got me was fairly tame for a scrub python. He was just chilling on my arm and shoulders when it happened. He did not strike or hiss. He slowly turned his head and got close enough to my fore arm that his tongue would touch it then for no reason and in what seemed like slow motion he opened his mouth, bit down, released and went back to his normal chill self.

I guess it was his way ofor reminding me that although he was cool with me he could ruin my day if he wanted to.

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Talk about pain!

That seems a bit rude of him, he could have gone for a more gentle reminder, don't ya think?;)

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Originally Posted by Fraido

Talk about pain!

That seems a bit rude of him, he could have gone for a more gentle reminder, don't ya think?;)

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For the most part Frai, sorry you got tagged. These are captive animals with wild instincts. Once we begin to respect them and give them their space with due precautions we will eliminate alot of the bite occurences. :cool:

That boa is a big'n! That bite looks like it hurt alright!

Ouch - Double ouch! :mad:

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Originally Posted by Albert Clark

For the most part Frai, sorry you got tagged. These are captive animals with wild instincts. Once we begin to respect them and give them their space with due precautions we will eliminate alot of the bite occurences. :cool:

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I take full responsibility, lol. 😜

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Originally Posted by Sauzo

Lol I also just shove my hands in my girls' cages and do stuff. Lol sometimes I stick my face up to the doors to take a sniff for a poopie. One day I will probably get bit but its only happened once so far with these girls and its cause Rosey was a baby and new and I reached in over top of her head and she hit my arm. Most of the time they don't care what I do. And you must have "quitter" boas there Reinz lol. Rosey and Vicky play hell to try and get back in their cages when they don't want in. They grab the drop down door with their tail or double back out and grab the top of the cage or the side of the cage. Or Rosey being big will clamp onto my hand or arm and its game over, I cant get her off to save my life lol. Vicky isn't as big so she cant really use the clamp method so she uses her sneakiness and will double back on my arm and crawl up to my shoulder. Dottie is the only one who actually more or less likes going into her cage and hides lol.

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lol, Irwin starts going up my arm and over my shoulder as soon as i start opening up his enclosure, then he weaves through my hands or, worst of all, he starts to slither around and into the wire shelves upon which his enclosure sits. Usually when i get the chance i sort of angle his head towards his warm side hide and all of a sudden he's like, "Ooh! I want to go to there!"

I have yet to be bit by any of my snakes and I don't want to lol. On the other hand my husband has been tagged by one of our bps and our boa. Oh! He also so got tagged by a rat. He said the rat hurt worse than the snakes.

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It's not a nice thing that's for sure, lol. I don't know how people can say they barely feel it, I definitely feel even the hatchlings pokes! It's not bad though.

I can attest to how much a rat bite hurts, an aggressive or defensive rat bite is hell!

Cats are the worst. They basically have poisonous spit so the bites always get infected. I have a lot of cats, lol, so while most of them are nice kitties, I've probably had more cat bites than most people.

My first BP tagged me once when I first got him. He was only 100g so it wasn't much, just barely a scratch. I think he thought I was/had food. But he didn't strike at his food for months after that, just wandered over and started eating. Idk if he felt bashful about tagging me (fairly sure that bashful is not a snake emotion, haha) or if it was out of character for him to strike anyway.

I used to have tiger salamanders, and they don't even have teeth. But they had sharp mouths and it would slice like a paper cut. Owww!