OUCH!! Anyone else had a snake do this?

We all know a corn snake can't hurt humans - or so I thought until tonight. I was holding my ghost corn (adult male named Joxer) around my neck, while cleaning his tub just now. He was squirming around and tickling me with his tail, which was all fine and dandy... until he suddenly decided to JAB the tip of his tail DEEP into my ear! OMG. It was like accidentally stabbing yourself with a Q-tip, and hurt like a you-know-what!! :rage:

My ear is still throbbing a bit, and I swear he practically hit the ear drum. Should I be worried, and has anyone ever had a snake do this before? Weird enough that I had to share, and I can only imagine how a doctor would react to this story: "Hi. My snake stabbed me in the ear, and I'm worried he punctured something." :oops:

LOL...I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that you're pretty unique on this score. :P

If it still hurts after a day or more, you might want to get it checked out. I imagine it'll probably be fine, though.

A first on BP.net?? I should win a special award!! :P

Thanks for the reply, and I'll definitely get it checked out if it still hurts in 2-3 days... which is my general rule-of-thumb for any injury, unless something is sticking out or bleeding uncontrollably. I'm like a dude when it comes to doctors, LOL.

HAHAHA. First I have heard of that, congrats! I haven't handled many corns, but even ball pythons do have sharp little tails if you consider them jabbing into your eardrum :O Oh no, one more way snakes are dangerous, awful pets. Now they're after our eardrums!

Never had a corn do it but my bps will sometimes wrap and jab their tail tips into the back of my arm or anywhere elce for that matter.. Spurs hurt also,

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Originally Posted by Lolo76

"Hi. My snake stabbed me in the ear, and I'm worried he punctured something." :oops:

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That just sounds all kinds of wrong:rofl::rofl::rofl:

I'm sorry, I had to laugh when I read this. Hope everything is ok though. :)

I hope your ear is okay!! But I am laughing about the potential doctor comment too..haha :rofl:

ouch!, nope never had that happen, i have had some white lips tag me on the side of the face that way, but never had one put their tail in my ear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJSmmbmJCLw

It's a major award!

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Originally Posted by aldebono

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJSmmbmJCLw

It's a major award!

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HAHAHAHA!!! That's the first thing that popped into my mind when I read your comment before I even looked at the link on youtube..hahahaha :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Glad to make someones day. I hope other people have watched it.

My ear is fine now, thanks... and I'm seriously LOL at all of the comments! Can't view the YouTube video right now, but I will check it out later. :D

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Originally Posted by Lolo76

"Hi. My snake stabbed me in the ear, and I'm worried he punctured something." :oops:

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I can just see the Doctor gathering all his buddies come look at this one :rofl:

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Originally Posted by RestlessRobie

I can just see the Doctor gathering all his buddies come look at this one :rofl:

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I can see that happening too! LOL Sorry you got stabbed by your snake....LOL Sorry could not say that with a straight face. Hope you feel better.

Read this, laughed a lot and imagined Pretzel doing it. I thought "nahhh..."
Spoke/thought too soon I guess.
Okay...so it wasn't my ear. It was my nose. And it wasn't Pretzel it was Munch.

Munch decided to wrap himself around my head and face and was, it seems, attempting to find somewhere to latch on.

Which apparently meant repeatedly poking me in the face with his tail until he found....my nose.

My eye socket was nearly his ending point. But I guess my nose was good enough.

:sweeet:

Once I yawned when Quetzal was on my neck... he decided that my mouth must be a hide and proceeded to fling himself to the back of my mouth (I know I know, snake in mouth/down throat jokes). Let's just say after a nice little scramble to make him not do that anymore I'm careful of how close I let him get to my face when he's feeling adventurous xD

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Originally Posted by Jazi

Once I yawned when Quetzal was on my neck... he decided that my mouth must be a hide and proceeded to fling himself to the back of my mouth (I know I know, snake in mouth/down throat jokes). Let's just say after a nice little scramble to make him not do that anymore I'm careful of how close I let him get to my face when he's feeling adventurous xD

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:rofl: :rofl : :rofl:
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My friend Greg had rosy boa who did that to our friend Doug. And then the rosy wouldn't let go for about 5 minutes.

In the rosy's defense, there were 20 people over at Greg's that evening, and it had already been handled by most of them before it got to Doug's ear.