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View Poll Results: Have you been bit by your BP?
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05-28-2021, 04:13 PM
#791
Registered User
Never by a ball python. One defiantly would If I let him. I just approach him properly to avoid it. The other 13 for comparison are fine. No caution needed, maybe except at feeding time for a few.
Approach him properly? for me that means covering him with my hand, not from the front, swiftly and confidently but not too fasts. Then gently scooping him up in my hands.
That has worked for me for many snakes. Once up and held securely, not many snakes would want to bite the tree they are in.
Admittedly I have not been fast enough for a few other snakes in my past.
Last edited by Ascended; 05-28-2021 at 04:18 PM.
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06-05-2021, 01:23 PM
#792
We should really restart this poll.... Or allow us to change our answer.
KMG
0.1 BP 1.1 Blood Python 1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa 1.0 Aru Green Tree Python
0.1 Emerald Tree Boa 0.1 Dumeril Boa 0.1 Carpet Python 0.1 Central American Boa
0.1 Brooks Kingsnake 0.1 Speckled Kingsnake 1.0 Western Hognose
0.1 Blonde Madagascar Hognose 1.0 Columbian Boa
1.1 Olde English Bulldogge 1.0 Pit Bull
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09-21-2021, 03:55 PM
#793
BPnet Veteran
Re: POLL: Have you been bit by a BP?
One by feeding time, she missed the rat and face planted in substrate, she had been on hunger strike for 2 months but as soon as I opened viv and put rat in wasn’t even near her yet she was asleep but her head soon wipped around and struck instantly didn’t aim didn’t take take just bam but missed. Got a piece of coco husk stuck in her mouth and had no choice to remove it. Being in a crazy feed mode she was rather snappy, removed the substrate got bit and then she ate her rat
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09-26-2021, 03:53 PM
#794
Re: POLL: Have you been bit by a BP?
Originally Posted by Jamiekerk
One by feeding time, she missed the rat and face planted in substrate, she had been on hunger strike for 2 months but as soon as I opened viv and put rat in wasn’t even near her yet she was asleep but her head soon wipped around and struck instantly didn’t aim didn’t take take just bam but missed. Got a piece of coco husk stuck in her mouth and had no choice to remove it. Being in a crazy feed mode she was rather snappy, removed the substrate got bit and then she ate her rat
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So in other words, you were the appetizer?
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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09-26-2021, 05:19 PM
#795
BPnet Veteran
Re: POLL: Have you been bit by a BP?
Originally Posted by Bogertophis
So in other words, you were the appetizer?
Yeah I had no choice but to stick my hand in while she was trying to feed she had a piece of coco husk stuck in her mouth don’t blame her she’s just a animal. She has a crazy feed response when she’s hungry. I’ve had ball python you have to dance the rat around o not her she darts out fast.
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09-26-2021, 05:53 PM
#796
Re: POLL: Have you been bit by a BP?
Originally Posted by Jamiekerk
Yeah I had no choice but to stick my hand in while she was trying to feed she had a piece of coco husk stuck in her mouth don’t blame her she’s just a animal. She has a crazy feed response when she’s hungry. I’ve had ball python you have to dance the rat around o not her she darts out fast.
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Oh I truly understand, we've all "been there" when feeding goes wrong- just another day as a caring "snarent". You made the "supreme sacrifice".
And some snakes can mess up ANY presentation of prey, believe me.
Last edited by Bogertophis; 09-26-2021 at 05:54 PM.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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10-02-2021, 06:55 PM
#797
Registered User
Re: POLL: Have you been bit by a BP?
Been bit twice by a ball python and once by a black snake but that was it…the second ball python bite bruised over my knuckle area (where I was bit) and left little teeth marks for a few days but obviously it was minor.
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12-23-2021, 03:16 PM
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12-26-2021, 08:17 PM
#799
Registered User
I've been bit by snakes on occasion. The worst was from my 6 foot redtail boa. I was carrying her with my shirt off once and something in my movements while I was walking spooked her and she latched onto my side. That one hurt a bit and bled a good bit but never had a bit from a ball python that bothered me at all. They are always pretty mild in my experience and nothing to fear.
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04-29-2022, 12:03 AM
#800
Registered User
Re: POLL: Have you been bit by a BP?
I've been bitten by (two specific) babies, but never adults. My brother has had snakes for 6+ years, and was only once bitten by one of his adults, and it was because she missed her prey and got his arm instead.
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