POLL: Have you been bit by a BP?

I just got my boy, and he seems gentle, but I'm sure I'm going to eff up sometime in the future, either with feeding or general handling. TBH, I'm sort of looking for an opportunity to get bit just so that I can feel it and get over the fear of it in the back of my head.

My ball python has never bitten anyone, and the only time he ever struck at me was when he got a little substrate stuck in his mouth and I had to get it out. And the strike was pretty much the laziest half-hearted strike I've ever seen out of a snake, haha.

Today, after three years of keeping bps, one of them got me. He would bite me every time he sees me if he could. It felt like nothing. I've had worse insect bites.

My girls is now about 5 months old - got her when she was about a month. She has hissed quietly at me a few times and gotten into a defensive posture, but once I get my hand behind her she relaxes. Now, when feeding time is around she goes nuts and strikes at everything including the glass and mesh top even if I'm nowhere around her with food, she just smells it, knows it's coming and just loses her mind. Kind of entertaining actually.

I have pissed her off when she won't take food and I gently smack her in the face with it until she strikes. Sometimes it's just an annoyance "get away" strike at which point I get rid of the food and try another one which usually works.

no, not yet. ask me again in a week or two. :oops:

I've only been bit once. Not intentionally, though. My hand got in the way when she was taking one last bite of her rat.

Some say they don't let go, but she immediately let go once I relaxed my hand. It only hurt because it caught me by surprise.

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lol just got tagged last night. :D 200 gram female i just got yesterday. I was moving her hide in her isolation tub to temp gun the hot spot just to be sure :colbert: and smack right on the index finger! Just a quick nip I said ouch in surprise not in pain. I had three pin pricks on my finger that got red but didn't bleed. I have had worse mosquito bites. This of course was my fault sneaking up on a stressed animal in a new location. I was surprised to see her roaming about this morning in her new digs. She let me temp gun this morning so i believe all is forgiven :).

Yep... three times. One time I got between Onyx and her rat, totally my fault. I was feeding in the dark and didn't see her head. Another time I got bitten by Amara, my mahogany. That time she was hiding under the towels during feeding and she came out on the side I didn't expect and got me. Yes, I use feeding tongs. Yes, I need to buy longer ones. xD

There was only one time I don't think it was me. My five hundred gram super pastel pinstripe's tub was disgusting and I had to take her out to clean it. I reached in to grab her and she freaked out. She got me, but I didn't even notice until I saw blood. Not painful at all. It was quite odd. I think she might've just thought I was a rat or something. It was around the time of day I normally feed, so that's probably it. So you know, not a big deal.

Haven't been bitten yet (obviously), but I still am aware of not putting my hand in front of their face when I'm picking them out of the tub. Blackout in particular is very easy frightened and jerks her head this way and that when ANYTHING moves nearby, but has never struck yet. Cake is calm as heck for a baby, but still gets a little tense when I'm trying to pick him out of the tub.