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View Poll Results: Have you been bit by your BP?
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06-09-2015, 01:04 PM
#601
I just got my boy, and he seems gentle, but I'm sure I'm going to eff up sometime in the future, either with feeding or general handling. TBH, I'm sort of looking for an opportunity to get bit just so that I can feel it and get over the fear of it in the back of my head.
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06-13-2015, 07:26 PM
#602
Registered User
My ball python has never bitten anyone, and the only time he ever struck at me was when he got a little substrate stuck in his mouth and I had to get it out. And the strike was pretty much the laziest half-hearted strike I've ever seen out of a snake, haha.
1.0 Python regius (Marshmallow)
0.1 Pantherophis guttatus (Prudence)
0.1 Epicrates cenchria (Lily)
1.0 Heterodon nasicus (Taco)
0.1 Boa constrictor imperator (Valkyrie)
0.1 Eryx colubrinus (Willow)
0.1 Lampropeltis triangulum (Unnamed)
0.0.1 Python reticulatus
0.0.1 Morelia spilotes
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06-14-2015, 09:24 PM
#603
Today, after three years of keeping bps, one of them got me. He would bite me every time he sees me if he could. It felt like nothing. I've had worse insect bites.
0.1 sulfur
0.1 hypo enchi
0.1 crystal
1.0 vanilla cream het hypo
0.1 leopard cinnamon
1.0 calico pastave
1.0 hypo black pewter lesser
0.1 hypo black pewter yellow belly
0.1 pastel lesser
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06-15-2015, 02:04 PM
#604
Reptile Dysfunction
Re: POLL: Have you been bit by a BP?
My girls is now about 5 months old - got her when she was about a month. She has hissed quietly at me a few times and gotten into a defensive posture, but once I get my hand behind her she relaxes. Now, when feeding time is around she goes nuts and strikes at everything including the glass and mesh top even if I'm nowhere around her with food, she just smells it, knows it's coming and just loses her mind. Kind of entertaining actually.
I have pissed her off when she won't take food and I gently smack her in the face with it until she strikes. Sometimes it's just an annoyance "get away" strike at which point I get rid of the food and try another one which usually works.
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06-15-2015, 02:26 PM
#605
no, not yet. ask me again in a week or two.
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06-16-2015, 11:25 AM
#606
Registered User
Re: POLL: Have you been bit by a BP?
I've only been bit once. Not intentionally, though. My hand got in the way when she was taking one last bite of her rat.
Some say they don't let go, but she immediately let go once I relaxed my hand. It only hurt because it caught me by surprise.
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06-26-2015, 11:08 PM
#607
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07-08-2015, 10:47 AM
#608
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07-28-2015, 09:51 AM
#609
BPnet Veteran
Yep... three times. One time I got between Onyx and her rat, totally my fault. I was feeding in the dark and didn't see her head. Another time I got bitten by Amara, my mahogany. That time she was hiding under the towels during feeding and she came out on the side I didn't expect and got me. Yes, I use feeding tongs. Yes, I need to buy longer ones. xD
There was only one time I don't think it was me. My five hundred gram super pastel pinstripe's tub was disgusting and I had to take her out to clean it. I reached in to grab her and she freaked out. She got me, but I didn't even notice until I saw blood. Not painful at all. It was quite odd. I think she might've just thought I was a rat or something. It was around the time of day I normally feed, so that's probably it. So you know, not a big deal.
0.1 Onyx Pastel
0.1 Bumblebee Het Red Axanthic
0.1 Cinnamon Fire
0.1 Mahogany
0.1 Mojave Bumblebee
0.1 Super Pastel Pinstripe
0.1 Super Pastel Spinner
0.1 Sherbert Fly
0.1 Calico
0.1 Mojave
1.0 SuperFly
1.0 Enchi Lesser Spider (possible pastel)
1.0 Pastel Vanilla
1.0 GHI Het Red Axanthic
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Albino Corn Snake ("temporarily" caring for him)
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07-28-2015, 06:47 PM
#610
Haven't been bitten yet (obviously), but I still am aware of not putting my hand in front of their face when I'm picking them out of the tub. Blackout in particular is very easy frightened and jerks her head this way and that when ANYTHING moves nearby, but has never struck yet. Cake is calm as heck for a baby, but still gets a little tense when I'm trying to pick him out of the tub.
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