POLL: Have you been bit by a BP?

Great Poll :)
I replied "Only once" because I raised a young juvenile normal bp to large healthy adult female (named Regina) and she only bit me because she mistook me for the live mouse I had been handling right before I fed her.

I have over 60 ball pythons and yes I have been railed a time or two. I have some that have hit me during feeding time (which definately hurts the worst:gj:) and I have a couple of males that are particularly nasty and try to bite every time they come out of the cage, but people think that cats are so cute and fuzzy they can't possibly be mean right??? I have been bitten by a 8' redtail boa and been clawed and bitten by my siamese cat and I'll take a bite from a redtail any day of the week over the cat. Snake bites happen... it's part of the hobby. If you work with snakes you will eventually get a bite. Wash it off maybe put some peroxide on it if you are worried about it and go on with your day, there are worse things out there that can happen to you!

Not yet but I'm sure it will happen soon! My b.f. on the other hand was handling him & wasn't supporting him enough and he gave him a toothless bite he said, actually had his mouth open and on his hand. After that now he wont mess with him. Then again i've only had him for about a month, so we will see this time next year if i have been bitten or not!

Have one snake. Had it for a year now. Never been bit. I wish I would get bit already, and just get it over with.

To stop me from flinching when I reach into the cage, I imagine Johnny Knoxville, Wee Man and Ryan Dunn in the ball pit wrestling with those huge anacondas, getting bit in the forearm and blood running all over the place.

I was a newb and was removing a mouse out of my pythons enclosure cuz I thought it wasn't going to eat it and was holding the mouse by the tail cuz I HATE the nasty vermin lol and while i was opening the mouse cage with my other hand and my ball struck at it and instantly moved on when it realized it hit me. so it didnt even latch on not really a bite it just left me a crescent scratch on hand from those razor sharp teeth. so again NOT really a bite more a graze and a valuable lesson not to mention one heck of a surprise and adrenaline rush LOL

Twice, both times was during feeding and my ball seems to have bad aim? haha He released immediately, as soon as he figured out, oops this ain't a mouse! Didn't hurt, drew blood though

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Originally Posted by West Coast Jungle

Babies are most likely to bite as a self defense mechanism.
With that in mind I have bred and handled many babies and have been tagged a time or two(ok maybe more than that:D).

I brought some babies to the vet today for a health exam for shipping abroad and one tried tagging both of us several times, good fun.

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Your avatar really caught me off guard. I got lost in it for a minute thinking..."what the heck is that?"

LOL......

I don't know why so many of yall have aggressive balls. My wife and I have owned dozens of balls over the years and we've never had one even so much as strike at us, even after handling rats. Closest to any aggression we've seen in our collection is our pastel who will let out a little huff if you startle him in his tub.

However, I worked at a Pet Smart a while back and we did get some wild caught babies that were very snappy. Never got bit, though. That was the extent of me seeing any aggression in a ball.

Other snakes... Well, I could write a novel on what all has nailed me!

I've been bit a few times, never by one of my own, though one of mine stuck at me from a distance when I moved her to do some spot cleaning and change her water, she hasn't struck at me since then. The other few times were from my friends snake Hercules, he inherited Hercules and he had apparently never been handled and didn't like people near the tank. I chose to be the one to try and calm him down and about 2 weeks later and a couple of small tags he was a docile as any other BP I've had the pleasure of knowing.

My ball has only struck at me once (shouldn't have moved my hand in front of his face so quickly), but so far no bites, knock on wood.

However, when I went to the store, the person helping me said he was the 'mean one' and pulled her sleeve over her arm just in case. Guess he likes me more?