POLL: Have you been bit by a BP?

Yes I have, No it doesn't hurt. Its more of a mind thing. You've seen it on TV and movies because thats what they like to show so in a sence your mind has been programmed to think its going to hurt / kill you...lol

Once you over come it in your head that no matter what you will be just fine, you just won the whole battle;) It does take awhile though to except strikes and not to jerk back.

Yes but only 1 time but it dose not hurt much. lol Actually this is a spider bite infected. http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x...on3/spider.jpg

Wow! I don't know whether to call that wicked or gross lol. Both?

A quick tip... Don't get complacent and let the grouchy ones get too close to your face. One of my 300g pied males just nailed me right in the eye! lol...

I think my eyeball itself only caught one or two teeth, but my eyelid was oozing quite a bit and is still swollen from blood.



http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8074/eyein.jpg

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Originally Posted by spitzu

A quick tip... Don't get complacent and let the grouchy ones get too close to your face. One of my 300g pied males just nailed me right in the eye! lol...

I think my eyeball itself only caught one or two teeth, but my eyelid was oozing quite a bit and is still swollen from blood.


http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8074/eyein.jpg

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OUCH!!!!!!!!

I've been bitten on the nose by a texas rat but on the eye? DO NOT WANT. :colbert:


dr del

NEVER a Bp... but both of my other species have bit me at least once :)

I had my first snake bite from a baby ball python....I was terrified of getting bit before it happened, but once it did happen it was actually really cute when the little guy got me....lol

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Originally Posted by Monster Dodge

Yes I have, No it doesn't hurt. Its more of a mind thing. You've seen it on TV and movies because thats what they like to show so in a sence your mind has been programmed to think its going to hurt / kill you...lol

Once you over come it in your head that no matter what you will be just fine, you just won the whole battle;) It does take awhile though to except strikes and not to jerk back.

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This is so true....snakes are so tabo in our culture that most people...including myself in the past....are terrified of being bit by a snake....but once you finally get bit and find that it doesn't hurt you relize its nothing....just part of the hobby

Both times I got bit were totally my fault. I was messing around with some mice and forgot to wash my hands before trying to take Isabelle out of her cage (back when I was 16 or so). The most recent one happened last week actually. I made the mistake of going into Prehistoric Pets the day all the babies were being fed.

One thing I do have to say here though, when a ball python bites, you can't even really feel it. All you really feel is the force of the strike (the snake launching it's face into whatever it has access to). The teeth are so tiny that you don't even feel them! Especially with the babies. It took blood coming out of the bite wound for me to actually register that I had been bit. LOL

One of the cutest things I have seen with a biting snake is a baby Garter by my parents farm. My nephew found the little baby and it coiled up and went into strike mode. It started striking when my nephew put his hand close to him. My nephew was terrified of snakes for months haha. He got over it now, because he understands that the little guy was just super scared. He has held my corn and loves his mom and dads ball python, Moby :)