Bitten by your pet?

I was just wondering how many of you have been bitten by your snakes before. Mine (Pandora) has a lot of personality but abolutely no temper. Most snakes I've had experience with hate being touched under their head but she loves it. She also loves kisses. I guess it may be because I've been like that with her since she was really little. Now she's just little.

I have been bitten by my JCP, my RTB, my Blue T. skinks my savannah monitor, and my pacman frog oh and one of my female beardies. Being bitten comes with owning herps. Now out of that list the only ones that still nibble on me are my skinks and thats out of curiosity not nastyness.

I've been bitten by my Hogg isle boa, my male blood python, my albino cali king, and my mexican black king. My biggest bite ever was from an 8' albino burmese.

What's a pacman frog bite like? I always wondered.. and what do you have to do to provoke that response?

I have been bitten by my ball python and by my male irian jaya carpet python.

I went to move a plastic bottlecap before my ball slithered over it, and the reach was apparently too close and too quick toward his head for his liking. Just a quick defensive strike. Hunched back for about a minute and then went back to exploring.

The carpet python bite was during a photo shoot. I've needed to handle him more often. He's just a scared baby.

I have also been bitten by 2 of my tarantulas. One zipped out of the vial as i went to do some watering, and I couldn't get it back in the vial. It ended up being rehoused. As for the other, it started to slip off my hand, panicked and used it's fangs to try and keep from falling.

Both T bites could have been prevented. Everybody makes mistakes.

ive been bit by what use to be my male and female ball python, by my male numerous times. i dont have either of them anymore, only my 2 BCIs

How was the T bite? I don't want to get bit/stung by my T or scorp..

mmmmmmm.....had a red fox years ago, he tagged me the day i brought him home.he was 6 weeks old.... but i tamed him quick.

my male n. stellatus got me once, but i was messin' with him.

a juvie crested got me once, but boy was he hungry!

my usambara alllllllmost got me, i was drinkin' & bein' a goof. got her back in her cage....

last but not least, my jungle cat would bite my face to wake me to play with her....she outgrew that(after many repromands)....

Leopard geckos and White's Tree Frogs are also quite viscious ;) Poor Murphy, everytime I touch under his chin, he thinks it's food. Everything is food to him. It just feels like a squeegee or something trying to gum you. Hehe

Leopard Geckos on the other hand, are just cute when they bite you, accident or not. Sometimes they will get me while I'm handfeeding them. Those wax worms really get them going.

I've been bit once by my bp when she was 6 months old(4 months ago already, wow). I had just got done giving her a rat, and after I came back from washing my hands, I wanted to point her toward her warm hide so she'd curl up and begin digesting. Apparently she didn't wanna be fussed with, so she gave me a quick snap between my knuckles on my left hand. It left two cute little fang marks and a bit of blood. I didn't feel a thing, and I'm sure if I didn't see her striking, I'd have never knew she bit me until later when I wondered where the hell those fang marks came from. :)

I've been bitten by nearly every mammal I've ever had, though I don't think my bunnies or skunk ever bit me when I had them. For herps, I've been bitten by a ball python (definitely my fault) and a crested gecko (clearing dirt out of her mouth with my finger -- only knew I was bitten because I saw it). Kitten bites are worse than the bite I got from my 4' ball python, though.

Oh yeah, I forgot.. my salamander bites at the air every time I open his lid, and if you touch his mouth, he'll grab on and 'shake' like a dog playing tug of war. Too cute!

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Originally Posted by Shelby

What's a pacman frog bite like? I always wondered.. and what do you have to do to provoke that response?

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It hurts to provoke it really nothing I was just taking him out to clean his enclosure and wack right on the thumb.

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Originally Posted by Shelby

How was the T bite? I don't want to get bit/stung by my T or scorp..

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The acutal bite from the 3/4" T hurt more than either of the nips I've gotten from my baby snakes. It didn't really hurt that much, it's the venom you have to be concerned about. No tarantula bite has ever killed.

Different species, different venoms, different reactions. Old World t's have a "nastier" bite.

Here's a straight copy and paste from the bite reports on AB.

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Time about 630 at night. Opened up vial to mist.

"Industry", my 3/4" Iridopelma hirsutum, walked out of the container, and began walking around and around the vial. In trying to get her back in the vial I end up with Industry walking all over my arms, both hands, my pant leg, and then I manage to get her into a far to large deli cup. Unforunately, that is the cup I use to dust crickets in for my crested geckos, so she can't stay in that.

In getting her into the deli cup, she takes a bite into the fleshy side part of my left hand (side near the pinky).

I quickly inspect my hand, and it's starting to throb very very faintly and seems to be going slightly numb. In numbness/throbbing on a scale of 1 to 10, I give this a 1, with 10 being the most numb/throbbing.

After refilling a larger vial twice, I manage to get her into a larger vial as a new home.

The bite itself shows no visible marks, but the pinky area and the bite itself seems to be more numb than the rest of the hand. No swelling, and finger joints of my left hand seem to be a little stiff.

EDIT: No noticeable signs after 2 hours.

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This happened sometime in early december. This T has been finally been proven to be a Chaco and I'm certain it was a bite.

I was putting the Chaco back into the container, while I was wearing gloves (I react to the urticating hairs). It had walked on to the back of my right hand. The chaco was three inches at the time. Unforunately, even though I was being quite careful, it started to slip a little bit as I was putting it back in it's container. It panicked and apparently used it's fangs to help hold on.

I was not sure I had been bitten until after I washed my hands and sat back down at the computer. I later pulled out the gloves and examined them for a bite mark. There were two tiny little holes in the gloves. Right hand ring finger was bitten. Right ring finger turned slightly reddish, and was slightly swollen. I don't recall much, if any pain. I did have a strong itching burning sensation however. About an hour or two later I went to bed without any problems. No swelling in the finger the next day, and no burning sensation.

I was rather concerned for a couple of days, about the tarantula having bitten latex but it was (and is) fine. So there you go, there's my stupid newbie bite experience.

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Oh yeah, and every time the cat has bitten me (I was stupid to let her play bite) has hurt way more than being bitten by anything else.

You know what's really no fun? Getting bit by a parrot. I like to think it's comparable to putting a chunk of your skin in a vise, and tightening it until it hurts so much, the area goes numb.
Yeah, I was at my neighbors house watching her kid for the night. Their parrot is quite the moody fellow. You can tell he was never trained or handled as a young bird. Anything put in front of him, he bites. He grabbed a hold of a chunk of my right forearm. That was thursday when it happened, and right now it's still tender and bruised. Oh well, he's full of character I guess.

Not at all related to reptiles though...hmm... :no:

hmm, i've been bitten by my sister's bearded dragon and by a couple of my cresteds. nothing really of note though. i was feeding the beardie some fruit and he grabbed my finger. one of my cresteds bit me because i startled him when he was sleeping--i would barely have noticed that he even bit me except that he was hanging from my finger for a second. the other crested bit me when i handed her a cricket--she will grab them right out of my fingers which i find cute so i offer them that way occassionally. guess she was hungrier than normal cuz she attempted to down the first half of my finger along with with cricket. more cute than anything else. :)

I have been bitten by these various pets of mine:

Female, mama rat. That had to be the worst. Feels like someone squeezing a pliers on your finger and not letting go. Bled a lot too. I was only trying to take one of her babies to feed to a snake :looks around innocently:

Cat. Inky bit me once when I was trying to give him a bath. He despises, loathes and hates water, unless it's in his drinking bowl.

Snakes. I got bit by a pine snake at my friend's pet store; more of a shock than anything else. I also got bites frrom two different BPs of mine, and my boa. All were misstrikes intended for food items, and I was the dummy who was responsible for that. Tongs help!

My old pacman frog bit me. He would actually squeak and hiss at you if you tried to pick him up or misted him with water. It hurt; I was bleeding. He had clamped down on my finger. The horned frog I have now is not at all aggressive, and in fact does not even eat much either!

My african cichlids will nibble on my fingers if I am feeding them!

My BP has never even so much as struck or hissed at me, knock on wood. I learned long ago, tongs are my friend. :D The only time he's ever even gotten remotely moody was when I first got him and was trying to move him into his new enclosure. Shouldn't have tried to handle him at that point anyway.

My roommate's dog is a Pomeranian and he's a little @@@@. He'll bite you at the drop of a hat. So yeah, he's tagged me a few times. But he's old and she'd have a heart attack if I disciplined him (Lord knows she never does), so he gets away with it. I've gotten a couple decent gashes from my German Shepherd's teeth, but that's all been in good fun while we're wrestling, so I don't really count that. Guess I've been lucky thus far!

Dogs (small) cats, spiders, scorpion (pinched and stung), Nile monitor, water monitor, Amazon tree boa, many a' small retic, burms and various small giants. Beardies, leopard gex, many o many tokays, and various geckos. Turtles (yup they can bite too). Various birds (no parrots or conures, I'd probably die), too many rodents, Iguanas, colubreds. That bull X corn strikes when you walk by his enclosure. And on...
I will say that I have been bitten more in my younger years while working at various pet stores. Unloading sick and injured animals gets you bitten; I in no way blame them. I've also been put in the position of finding inappropriately boxed animals on our doorstep; I'll never forget when someone decided to box half a dozen Tokays in a shoebox. I'm glad I opened that box indoors, but still not fun.
Rusty
PS Winslow never gets bitten, I think he can count his bites on one hand, lucky guy.

I know this is an old post, but always an interesting topic :P
My list so far (in the 3 months or so ive been dealing with herps)
3 corn snakes (only one bite out of probably 40 left a mark, and that still didnt hurt)
12 black rat snakes (hatchlings that hadnt gotten over the OH MY GOD ITS A HUGE PREDATOR reflex) Those were the type where you wouldnt know you had been bitten if you hadnt been watching
a leopard gecko, which despite the earlier post can be kinda rough. It bit as it was jumping away from me, so it latched on, then those little teeth slid across my knuckle, cutting just like a steak knife, bled alot, and took nearly a week to heal.

as far as fish go, several convict cichlids, a figure 8 puffer(both of which were just funny)

I've been bit a number of times by our macaw, twice by a horse, several times by my cats and once by my BP. The macaw bites are by far the worst, shes left scars. I had to beg my husband to let me have her, and now she hates me and loves him. :confused:

captive herps that ive been bitten by are my female ball, and my western fence lizard. im supprised my ackies hasnt bit me yet. he's not aggressive in any way.

the wild ones are where it gets good, lol. in the wild ive been bitten by alligaor lizards, gilberts skinks, bunches of garter snakes, "unidentified" whipsnake-type snake near a pond, and a northern pacific rattlesnake, with the worst being the rattlesnake ofcourse.

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Originally Posted by mr~python

a northern pacific rattlesnake, with the worst being the rattlesnake ofcourse.

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Was it a 'dry' bite?

nope, one whole fang in the tip of my middle finger. envenomation. i squeezed the blood out of my finger like crazy and squeezed my finger to stop blood flow and it ended up not being to bad. thank God i knew what to do or else i would have been a hurtin unit.

i can actually feel where there is no more tissue in the tip of my finger. you can't see it but when you touch it you can tell its a really soft "crater".

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Originally Posted by mr~python

nope, one whole fang in the tip of my middle finger. thank God i knew what to do or else i would have been a hurtin unit.

i can actually feel where there is no more tissue in the tip of my finger. you can't see it but when you touch it you can tell its a really soft "crater".

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Did you have anti-venom administered? If so, how many vials.

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Originally Posted by SigurUntitled1

I was just wondering how many of you have been bitten by your snakes before.

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Tyler Durden (RTB) bit me on Monday. He is about 8 feet. He caught me under the jawbone in the neck, and on my chin. It didn't really hurt, but its been sore ever since.

I have heard African Rocks have a pretty mean bite.

I dont recommend kissing your snake by the way.

Kissing snakes is just asking for them to nip ya right back. LOL I've seen way to many people do this and have that happen.

I've been bitten by a few horses, a few cats, a dog or three, my LTR snake, a turtle, a toad, a ferret, a few rats & mice....

I play safe and kiss a coil while the head is pointed away. I do wonder though if they are likely to bite when they are approaching your face voluntarily while exploring (like they do) or if it is rather you going towards their face to kiss them that would give a reflex bite action. The only reptile of mine I've been bitten by is my smallest rankin dragon haha it was over-excitement on his part when feeding him a worm. The other time was a friend's kingsnake that went down my top and latched onto my chest :O Neither bites hurt.


Ditto what people said earlier about parrots though - they are some of the worst biters because of their quick mood swings (in Amazons anyway). But I can read mine's body language now and know when to touch him.

Thank God my sav has never bitten me I'd sure know about that!! But savs I've found are like parrots - no amount of lizard keeping could prepare me for a sav, but I've found having a parrot means I can easily read sav body language.

ive been bitten by my 10 foot burms to 1 foot cornsnakes. worst bite was from a wc retic at 12 foot. venomous was from a monacled cobra. 19 viles later(barely a fang grazed my finger) and im fine. one of my most painful"bites" if you can call it that was from my brothers giant baseball sized hermit crab lol i was holding it and its claw grabbed my face(my bro told my to kiss it for a dollar lol) it held on for about a minute and then let go lol. most painful amphib bite is from a large pyxie(like a pacman sort of) frog. i had to surgicly get a part of my index finger put back on lol.

i have never been biten by my bps thank god, nor do i care to. but i was biten by another persons dog while i was trying to break my pitbull off of him... thaat really sucked... he go tout, saw a man walking his dog and took that big wolf down, the man started whacking my pit to get him to stop but every pit owner knows that that is the last thing you do... so i held his dog down to stop the trashing my pit was doing, and my friend grabbed the stick to break him and thats when the dog lifted her head and bit me... i still have the scars...

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Originally Posted by _BoidFinatic_

Did you have anti-venom administered? If so, how many vials.

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nope, never had any antivenom administered. the swelling didnt progress too much after i got to the hospital and after a couple hours they let me go. it hurt like hell though.

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Originally Posted by mr~python

nope, never had any antivenom administered. the swelling didnt progress too much after i got to the hospital and after a couple hours they let me go. it hurt like hell though.

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So no venom was injected? That is called a 'dry' bite.

yes, a "dry bite that turns tissue black and rots of part of the tip of my finger." ive heard of those.:rolleye2: yeah..... right.

i guess boidfinatic missed the part about you squeezing most of the venom out and assumed because no antivenom was given that there was not venom injected.

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Originally Posted by piranhaking

i guess boidfinatic missed the part about you squeezing most of the venom out

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correct. I'm sorry that I missed that part.

by the way, i didnt mean that in a rude way at all, i was just mentioning it incase someone didnt notice that could have happened.

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Originally Posted by piranhaking

by the way, i didnt mean that in a rude way at all, i was just mentioning it incase someone didnt notice that could have happened.

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Understood ;) .

LOL...in the last week, I have gotten tagged by my pastel ball python, the little brazilian rainbow boa, and one of my coastal carpets ;) No big deal...it is just something that comes along with keeping snakes....and to tell you the truth...unless the snake is venomous, I would rather be bitten by a snake than some lizards any day of the week....I have lost more blood to common fence lizards than all of my snakes put together ;)

....Marshall...you need to pick you up a Sawyer Extractor....I carry one at ALL times ;)

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

....Marshall...you need to pick you up a Sawyer Extractor....I carry one at ALL times ;)

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There was an independent experiment done with the extractors on pigs that were injected with crotalus venom. They concluded that the extractors were actually WORSE than using nothing at all. I'll see if I can find a link...

edit: Here's a short summary of the experiment.

Ok lets see:

Cat: My cat sheba has bitten me more time than I care to count.

Leopard Gecko: Spot will clamp on if you pick him up to quickly.

Never been bitten by my BP's but got bit by a hatchling Ablino burm a the reptile store here

Oh and the fun one a 6' wild black rat snake. :snake2: Totaly my fault I was getting him out of my bird house in the back yard and he was in blue and whack, Whack whack. Three good bite and grind bites. Bled like a stuck pig.

I keep the number to posion control on the wall of my herp room even though I don't keep hots I run across them in the yard and transprot them to a better place. I take all precautions with hots by never free handing and keeping them in a hot certified puncture proff bag ( I got that from a friend of mine at the zoo here in jackson.)

Daniel i do have a "kit" but i ironically didnt bring it with me on that trip. i bring it on every one but forgot that one and only that one, LOL.

what seemed to REALLY help was was squeezing the area i was bitten as hard as a could (to squeeze out as much blood/venom as i could) and constricting the blood flow from my finger.