POLL: Have you been bit by a BP?

[Ascended]

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.

[KMG]

We should really restart this poll.... Or allow us to change our answer.

[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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[Bogertophis]

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?

[Jamiekerk]

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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[Bogertophis]

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.

[Claire&snek]

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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[HarryTB]

Maybe



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[HoosierHerper]

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.

[Jolty]

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.