First bite

Yesterday while feeding I received my first bite. Just as anticipated it was quick and near painless.http://img.tapatalk.com/482f6eda-2b7d-0cab.jpg


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Welcome to the club :D

Did you lose that finger? I hope you received emergency medical treatment....lol

Well now you are part of the club. It is funny how painless a bp bite really is and how much people fear getting bit until they do. I still remember my first bite.

It is so funny how much everyone I told about it started freaking out like it was venomous lol, but that does just show you how uneducated people are. That is also why all these stupid new rules that punish everybody instead of fixing the real problem are put into place. It is just really frustrating how you try to help people understand, but they will still do such stupid things.

Oh my!! What are you doing on the forums?! You should be getting emergency medical attention!! :O :O :O

Heh. Congrats on the first bite.

:O i still have never been bitten.. what if they dont let go?

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Originally Posted by JohnyB

:O i still have never been bitten.. what if they dont let go?

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They usually dony but if they wrap you up then just try and gently uncoil them. They should figure out youre not a rat lol. And if that still doesnt work then just use a q-tip to gently pry their mouth open.

Another member of the Bite Club :gj: It's good to get that out of the way!

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Originally Posted by JohnyB

:O i still have never been bitten.. what if they dont let go?

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don't worry they won't eat much. LOL:hungry:

I have been tagged, but it may have been mock, it didn't draw blood.

:mad: im never gonna get in this club. VERY JEALOUS :rolleyes: lol

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Originally Posted by R3GG1-TPL

:mad: im never gonna get in this club. VERY JEALOUS :rolleyes: lol

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Handle a rat for awhile then try and pick up your snake. You'll be in the club ;)

Welcome to the club now get yourself to the ER you were bitten by a very dangerous animal what about salmonella poisining or at best the secondary infection they will cause :D

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Originally Posted by Mike41793

Handle a rat for awhile then try and pick up your snake. You'll be in the club ;)

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hahaha:rofl: it has to be natural lmao

I hope you had the right anti venom on hand! I had my mother in law over and she saw my new normal and she freaked out
"your keeping a venomous python in the house with your kids?" it's pretty funny how little people know about these great animals, but anyway hope you got that anti venom in time

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Originally Posted by Rob

I hope you had the right anti venom on hand! I had my mother in law over and she saw my new normal and she freaked out
"your keeping a venomous python in the house with your kids?" it's pretty funny how little people know about these great animals, but anyway hope you got that anti venom in time

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Rofl venomous python a friend at work told me the same thing lol when I explained it to him that it wasnt venomous he said WELL IT CAN STILL KILL YOU lol I gave up after that point lol there no knowledge going in that. Brain lol

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Originally Posted by DrDooLittle

I have been tagged, but it may have been mock, it didn't draw blood.

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Me too.

When I tell people I have snakes, one of their first questions is "Don't they bite? What do you do if they bite you?" I always just shrug and say "same thing if your cat scratched you. Wash it off and... well, nothing else." It is funny how much that freaks people out.

I just saw an ignorant owner selling his 'de-fanged' female ball on Craigslist to prevent injury......

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I fear my cats and chihuahuas more than my snakes! My burm has bit me 1 time so far, glad I got that out of the way! Lots of bleeding little holes for a few minutes but the anti-venom made me kind of woozy!:rolleye2::D

Dab some peroxide in it and I'm sure you will live.

My mom is an RN and thankfully knows enough to know that ball pythons are not venomous, but because she is an RN, she has seen the horrors of all kinds of infected animal bites and therefore is terrified that my snake will bite me and I will lose an arm. Yes, that can happen with a raging secondary infection. Very rare worst case scenario, but yeah sure, it is possible, just not probable. I showed my mom that I have a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and and a tube of Neosporin under my sink for such an emergency like a ball python bite. Yeah, peroxide and Neosporin, seeerrrrious supplies there.

But, it is very true that when such a simple measure as a dab of two cheap drug store products can make a HUGE different in outcome if you happen to be unlucky, we would all be dumb not to use them. Any one of us who happened to end up in the ER with a secondary infection after a bite that we didn't bother to clean would just be affirming our friends and family's fears. So let's all proudly show off our battle wounds to each other, but don't skip out on 90 seconds of basic first aid! :D

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Originally Posted by Tfpets

I fear my cats and chihuahuas more than my snakes! My burm has bit me 1 time so far, glad I got that out of the way! Lots of bleeding little holes for a few minutes but the anti-venom made me kind of woozy!:rolleye2::D

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Lol people are just so pre conditioned to fear snakes biting them, then when you ask them if they would be afraid of a dog with the same sized head as a ball they laugh cause it is pretty crazy being afraid of something so harmless.