Finally! - bit by an adult bp

I've been waiting for this day for quite some time. I've been keeping ball pythons since August of 2007 and until today, I had never been bitten by an adult ball python. I've been bitten by babies a few times and an adult "tagged" me with a single tooth. It barely grazed my skin so I didn't count it as a bite.

My sister came over to hang out for a little while and wanted to see the spider female she used to have. (started out I had her to breed for her, then she gave her to our friend, but she's still here for breeding) I reach in to show her how much one of the other snakes has grown and he tags me good! He lets go and immediately I'm dripping blood on the floor. It barely hurt (hurt more when I washed it) and I'm glad I finally got it over with. I've been wondering what it would feel like. I'm uploading a picture of the bite, after cleanup. (sorry no blood :D ) You can barely see the teeth marks, but with as much blood as there was you'd think he'd split my finger open. :P

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...701_112938.jpg

Can't blame him though. Today is feeding day. He was probably saying to himself "What no rat? Well take that! That'll teach you not to bring me my food!"

Yay!

.... wait.. whut?


Oh.

Yay!

Wear your battlescars with pride. :salute:


dr del

lol, welcome to the club :)

The reason you actually see two lines of teeth is because instead of biting once and letting go, he bit, readjusted (giving me two bites instead of one) and THEN let go.

Welcome to the club:gj:... Just wait until you get one that doesn't let go. PS. They always seem to do it in front of someone.

Congrats...lol Im still waiting for a bite from an adult Ive just been bit by hatchlings.

I've never been bitten, per se, but just the other day I was eye level with my Spider and she decided to tag me straight on the nose. Luckily it was a closed-mouth strike. :oops:

jeez dont let the media get a hold of that brutality.:rofl:

Congratulations! Fingers just BLEED A LOT, don't they?

I get bitten once a month or so, mostly because I drop the mouse and am too dang lazy to fetch either the hemastats or the gloves. It's still mostly babies, but my black pastel once tagged me so hard he couldn't pull the left side of his lower jaw off my finger without help. I think he was more freaked than I was.

Haha.... I just got tagged today! Lol http://tapatalk.com/mu/62e7624b-cdf0-9ce2.jpg

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Originally Posted by Smitty524

Congrats...lol Im still waiting for a bite from an adult Ive just been bit by hatchlings.

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X2!!! STILL waiting to get ripped on by an adult. I actually brought one of my 2200 gram females out the other day, had one hand on the tail and one on the upper part of her body, she had a bad shed (first one ever) and i think cause she couldn't see as well as usual, she actually lashed out at my hand on her tail and hit her own tail!

I felt so damn bad that she hit her own damn self, but checked for battle wounds (from herself) haha and found nothing. Must have either been a close mouth strike or she has got some really tough skin.

Someday my friend, someday we will get to the "big leagues"

My juvenile female just got me on the palm a little bit ago. She left 2 tiny slits. Think she was just startled. I was getting her out to hold her, and she struck at me. All part of having snakes though.

Congratulations.

I'm still waiting for the day one of my 3000 + gram females gets me. With Akashi, I know it's only a matter of time. She's a sweet snake with one heck of a feeding response. She's come close to dislocating my shoulder a couple of times, she hits her rats that hard. :O

I can't wait for the day she misses the rat gets me instead. I might end up in the E.R. if she does, that girl packs some power behind her strikes. :rolleyes:

Of course, it's all a part of snake ownership, so when it does happen, I'll be sure hubby gets pics before we leave. :D

Gale