First Tag

Well it's been 8.5 months and 10 snkes before I got my first tag. I always see everyone saying it doesn't hurt much. I didn't believe you until it happened. Delilah was trying to climb inside my shirt, I was trying to keep her out. She got mad and tagged me. She clamped down for a second or two then let go. It wasn't as bad as I expected. Here are a few pics of me showing it off right away. I treated it with Betadyne so it should be ok. This is the second time she has tagged someone so she is strictly my snake now. I won't let anyone else handle her. I know she will calm down eventually. Enjoy the pics.

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Owie! Deliah 1 Lars 0!!

I had a feeling she would be my first. I am going to keep working with her. I just started handling her pretty frequently. She was just getting over her bad reputation from tagging my son and had to go pull that stunt. I didn't jerk or pull her off so I hope she didn't lose any teeth.

Hm not bad. She got you pretty good.

got u good!! my first bite has a LIL bit of blood

If you turn your head to the side, the bite sorta looks like Michael Jackson :O . I'm waiting for my first tag too. Halen almost got me today. However, I can handle lots of pain so I'll be fine.

Ouchies....that's a pretty one! My husband keeps asking about my snakes, especially if he sees that I've had one out: "Has it bit you yet???" :rolleyes: No...not yet. But I'm sure someday a tag will come, maybe not from these two, but some snake or two or three down the road. If you don't fear it...no big deal, I say.

i fear it... and i hope it never happens to me... esp after seeing the bruising on your bite!!!

Snake bites have a way of looking horrible, but not hurting much. I've been bitten a lot.. big snakes, small snakes.. it's really, really not a big deal. I suppose a bite from a 15' retic would be different, but for your average snake keeper, a seriously nasty snake bite is not something to worry about.

Nice tags marks! What kind of snake?

Ooo its in that fleshy part of the arm thats annoyingly painful.I got bit there by a friends parrot.

Junior has only bit someone once. Before I got her, she was in the care of her past owners friend. He apparently did something to her, because she struck at him and tagged him..that is how I ended up with her.

Good luck with that, it looks super-bruised.

It was my 5' RTB female that tagged me. It looks a lot worse than it feels.

Owie! I know Neptune's gonna nail me one of these days. Sometimes I wonder if I should just let him and get it over with so I can join the tagged club and know it's not all that bad, lol. :ohmygod:

Holy wow Lars, when Rauri whose easily 6 feet tagged Mike is was barely anything. You really must have ticked her off! LOL

I hate being bitten - I hate the thought of being bitten (read "wuss") - never have been yet by either of our snakes but I'm sure it's gonna happen sometime.

So (if anyone knows this) how does a snake bite (like boa, ball) hurt in comparison to a hormonal amazon parrot bite?

I used to have a Cockatoo years ago Raz. Way worse bites! Parrots beaks hurt alot!

Welcome to the club. -Hums.-

If I had to choose between sticking my fingers into the cage of a small, aggressive snake...or an aggressive bird (of any size!)....I would choose to risk the snake bite ANY day.

yeah, i hear some of the larger birds can take a digit off...

worst bite i ever got was by my old cat. don't laugh, he got injured somehow (vet said maybe picked up by a great horned owl!) and came home with a broken leg and some bad cuts. when i tried to pick him up he gave me a bite on my thumb that was so deep you can see the scars to this day.

Haha. My worst tag was from a cat too. My male silver grey tabby and another cat were fighting, and me being me, I decided, like an idiot, to try and break them up. Yeah. I had these deep, deep puncture wounds from his longest canines. Hurt like a :cens0r:. Anyhoo...yeah. I bled for about an hour and the punctures started to heal. He decided to sleep with me with that night.

Wow! from the looks of it, she held on pretty good!!! got's some nice bruises there......

Glad that parrot bites are worse - I'll settle for a snake-bite any day then - unless of course it's a hot .... ;)

Parrot bites are much much worse.. first hand experience with both bites here!

Hahah. RAT bites are worse than a ball bite. -Mutters.-

My parrot sometimes hurts when he doesn't even mean to - like "beaking" too hard!

How about monitor bites? I'm dreading my first from my sav ... he's been really good up to now (only a few tail whips) - I'm sure the little booger is just waiting till he's a REAL BIG monitor then gonna let me have it

My first Tag ;)

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Ouch!!!:giggle: HEE HEE HEE!! :bolt: