Your first and worst bite

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male dumerils - about 4.5 ft - never been aggressive before - til last light - made me mad

My recent bite was from a female blood python. She is about a foot and a half.

A friend of mine was holding her. He asked "does she bite," I reply that she was a little nippy because she was a juvenile. Next I was pointing out her colors, and as I was pointed out the pepper coloring on her head she got the whole first joint of my index finger in her mouth. It didn't hurt, and like most of you already said it was just more of a shock lol.

I don't remember my first bite. I'm sure it was from a Garter snake though since I used to catch buckets of them as a kid and play with them all day before releasing them. Poor snakes :-(

When I was about 16 I got a 4' BP and a 6 - 7' Red Tail Boa from a friend of a friend. One day I was walking with the boa to go put her away. I could see her moving her head by mine and flicking her tongue around. I figured she was just checking things out, then BAM she bit me right on the eye. She held on for what seemed like quite a while, but I think she was just stuck. She didn't wrap around me or anything just hung there off of my face kind of squirming. It was pretty shocking, but I think my mom freaked out worse than I did. I wish I had taken pictures of my face afterwards.

I don't blame her for biting me. She obviously wasn't cared for or handled much (if at all) before I got her. She was very skittish, thin, and didn't seem to have as much muscle as she should have. I should have given her more time to settle in and worried about her health before trying to get her used to be handled.

There I go rambling again.

The first bite I can remember was more of a scratch and peck. When I was a kid I decided to check out this cute baby Bluejay on the ground by a tree. Unfortunately, the mother was not so understanding and let me have it good...

I don't remember my first bite, and I couldn't even tell you what kind of snake it was, but I remember my worst well.

I was doing a program for 80+ people with a 7', 28lb Dumerils boa (if you own a Dum and say "they don't get that big"...yes they do. At least 15 year old females do!). Normally with larger snakes, I hook their tail under one arm, the body goes across my shoulders and down the other arm so that I can grip their body away from the head a ways. Boas that are that big are somewhat strong, and towards the end of the program she moved her head up behind mine and "bumped" the back of my head. I knew what was coming next, but I don't think anybody else did.

She real slowly latched onto the back of my head with her lower jaw just behind my right ear, and her upper jaw on the upper part of my head about a palm-width away. It didn't hurt much, but everybody saw it happen so I reached back and took one jaw's worth of teeth out and she took the other out. She calmed right down and never squeezed, but as head wounds bleed a lot, this was a messy one...lol. The fact that she broke a tooth off in there didn't help either.

The odd thing was that NOBODY moved. I explained that it was my own stupid fault...I got rats out to thaw earlier that day and (after the fact) distinctly remember scratching the back of my head. I learned my lesson that day about hand washing!

After I got her put away and I got cleaned up, a family that was there hung back to see if I was OK. It was more embarrassing than anything because every program I do I try to get the point across that snakes aren't as bad as everybody thinks they are...of course that all went right out the window that afternoon. I did appreciate the one comment from the mom in that family though. She told me that she hated snakes, but because I stayed calm through the whole thing, it kept her from freaking out.

First snake bite came the first day I had my little guy. I was taking my male BP tango out of his shipping bag and placing him into his enclosure when he struck me... felt like just a pin prick, byut scared me all the same.

Worst (recent) bite was from my Florida Soft Shell turtle. I was moving him into his new 125g tank and he reached around and got a hold of my finger. It was a pretty nice bleeder.

Mine was also on the first day getting a 9yo Rosy boa from one of my regulars. I brought her home and picked up the mouse from it's container to feed her. I put the mouse back in it's box because I had forgot to remove the Rosy's water bowl. Like an idiot, I put the mouse scented hand back in the tank and she bit me good. She was stuck on there for a good ten minutes.

Hmmm..... I was like 8 or 9 when I got bit my my friends Dad's Burmese. Got me in the forearm.
When I go to Reptile Shows I usually get bit while I'm holding snakes and checking them out and talking to the Vendor. I just keep on talking while I am easing the snake off me. Its really no big deal. I lost the whole "Freak Out" thing a loooong time ago.

If you want to know the worst pain I have ever been in..... A dislocated shoulder that went back in the wrong way and had to be re-dislocated and reversed. I would rather take a bite from a 20+ Anaconda then go thru that again!!!!

Jericho, my burmese, bit me two days ago, because while cleaning his cage, I accidentally bopped him on the head pulling him out. I think it was more of a, "Hey, let's not do that again" bite... It hurt, yes, initially... but soon went away after 3-5 minutes... It's comparable to a crab pinch... At first it scares the crap out of ya, and hurts... but then soon after, you don't feel it any more unless you touch it.

My worst was by a 5' male ghost boa he got me on my left ear:rage: