I Done A Duuuumb Thing...

So feeding the kids today, I made the most ridiculous move ever. I fed Casper his mouse, of which I'll be posting a video later, and he powered it down like he was a starving neglected little boy, which he is absolutely the opposite. Then I went to pull Alana out to feed her and, immediately I knew I made her mad. The body language said it right away.

So I'm getting her out and she loosened up and I thought everything was cool. I switched hands that I was holding her with and no sooner I do that and BOOM, she's latched onto my thumb squeezing it to death.

Notice that no where in here did I mention that I had washed the hand with which I had been handling the mice. :rolleye2:

I couldn't help but laugh. sadly I didn't manage to find my camera in time before she realized "wait...this doesn't taste like a mouse!"
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Dohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! lol.....they will get ya on that everytime!!;)

your not a true snake owner/breeder till youve been tagged! just wait till one of your big mommas get ya at 3500 g's. thats when its really fun :rolleye2:

Lol... I don't dare put my hands near my most aggressive feeder. He follows them like they're the rat, and whatever I just dropped in his cage is just decoration!

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Originally Posted by andwhy6

your not a true snake owner/breeder till youve been tagged! just wait till one of your big mommas get ya at 3500 g's. thats when its really fun :rolleye2:

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uuum...8-10ft? What the heck are you feeding your BP?! Ease up on the steroids! :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by DeadLegs

uuum...8-10ft? What the heck are you feeding your BP?! Ease up on the steroids! :rolleyes:

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He just said their weight, 3500g.

This can easily be avoided by feeding in the home enclosure :P

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Originally Posted by Kaorte

He just said their weight, 3500g.

This can easily be avoided by feeding in the home enclosure :P

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Actually no he didn't, he just managed to edit his post before I clicked reply.

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Originally Posted by DeadLegs

Actually no he didn't, he just managed to edit his post before I clicked reply.

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oh, I see. Yeah no ball python gets 7-10 feet, lol

Either way, that's what you get for moving the snake after feeding other snakes and having scent all around the room.

You get bitten far less when you feed in the cage.

We all have done dumb things that we know we shouldn't do but at the time you just don't think about it until you get a reminder! When you have kids, it can get crazy and things happen!

Hopefully it wasnt a big 2k or more snake

Live and Learn. :gj:

I find it cute when they bite you. Hehe.

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Originally Posted by blackcrystal22

Either way, that's what you get for moving the snake after feeding other snakes and having scent all around the room.

You get bitten far less when you feed in the cage.

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not true.

totally can get bit just as easily when feeding in the enclosure as well.

I have girls that as soon as that tub opens there ready to kill somethin' whether its your hand or a rat haha

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Originally Posted by blackcrystal22

Either way, that's what you get for moving the snake after feeding other snakes and having scent all around the room.

You get bitten far less when you feed in the cage.

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you say this as if I was making some sort of excuse or blaming the snake. "that's what you get", give me a break. Like it's been said in this thread several times, everyone makes mistakes and everyone gets tagged at SOME point.

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Originally Posted by Sarin

Live and Learn. :gj:

I find it cute when they bite you. Hehe.

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Lending more fire to the debate of their brain power and/or ability for emotion; when I put her down on my bed for a second after the incident, she balled up and hid her head as if to be like "oh damn, sorry!", haha. I couldn't help but crack up.

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Originally Posted by Kaorte

This can easily be avoided by feeding in the home enclosure :P

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Originally Posted by blackcrystal22

You get bitten far less when you feed in the cage.

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I feed in the enclosure with tongs. I have been tagged twice once by a girl when she was 750g and once when she was 1950g. That's the only two times i have been tagged and both were my fault, the second time was reaching in with my hand to retrieve an un-eaten meal.

Mike

The only bite I ever got from a constrictor was when my former BP was in shed, couldn't see a thing, hadn't eaten properly in three months (was coming off an injury, the vet and I were doing liquid feedings until the poor guy healed) and I'd just handled a mouse from the feeder bin. I stuck my hand RIGHT IN FRONT of the little fellow and whap, got tagged.

The other day some guy was curious about why I was pricing certain things at the Home Depot (I'm gonna attempt a DIY snake rack soon, some comparative pricing was neccessary) and kept suggesting I consider different materials and I finally said "No, I can't use that, this will house live animals and needs to be safe for them to come in contact with" and when he found out I have a BP and plan on getting more, he asked a billion questions and kept saying "they must bite a lot" over and over again. I kept patiently reiterating that no, they aren't generally agressive and rarely bite...

...and then he asks "well, have you ever been bitten?"

If you saw an angry blushing fellow, brown hair and blue eyes, kindof on the short side, muttering in an angry, self-depreciating manner at your local Home Depot recently, that may have been me. ;)

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Originally Posted by DeadLegs

Lending more fire to the debate of their brain power and/or ability for emotion; when I put her down on my bed for a second after the incident, she balled up and hid her head as if to be like "oh damn, sorry!", haha. I couldn't help but crack up.

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Mine was pretty much the same situation with my baby spider, but I was just gonna clean something out of her tub. I was feding the other BPs not her so there was scent in the room. I open her tub and as my hand was reaching inside, her head came FLYING out of her hide and struck me and went back in her hide just as fast. It was like lighting strike!