POLL: Have you been bit by a BP?

[Bogertophis]

I've never been genuinely bitten by a ball python. Someone else's ball python nicked me, but it wasn't a genuine bite, more of a feint that unexpectedly scraped skin. The only snake I've ever been actually bitten by was a little tiny baby garter snake that I was relocating out of a horse stable so it wouldn't get trampled. It did not appreciate my concern, and was hilariously serious about expressing its objection. Little bugger musked me, too.

Garter snakes can be very effective, if not exactly "ferocious" for their size.

[YungRasputin]

so far i’ve only been bitten once by dwarf male burm, 2 fake bites from my male scrub and last weekend my female coastal both bit me and peed on me when i caught her trying to escape after misting - never anything else - i’ve got some snaps here and there but that’s the only time - my BP is as tame as they get tbh

other than that those are the only 4 times i’ve ever been tagged by any of my pets - never got tagged by a captive arachnid, just a wild adult female black widow (which required hospitalization, antivenin, morphine, saline, the whole 9, etc)

[D-.No]

I just officially got my first bite. It was totally my fault. Just doing my daily inspection for waste and even though she was coiled I adjusted her humid hide a bit and she’s spilled out. Took the opportunity to pick her up and inspect the moss to see if it needed a cleaning and she gently bit my pinky. If I didn’t see it and there wasn’t a bit of blood drawn I would’ve had no idea I was a bit.
Last night when handling her noticed her belly was turning pink and loosing a bit. Today she was a little more quirky/investigative as I approached her enclosure.
Guess we’re back into adolescent shed mode


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[Aspen0122]

I have personally never been bit by a snake before. I have been bit by a softshell and a lizard tho.

[Bogertophis]

I have personally never been bit by a snake before. I have been bit by a softshell and a lizard tho.

Typical snake bites are underwhelming- paper cuts are much worse.

[Animallover3541]

I have personally never been bit by a snake before. I have been bit by a softshell and a lizard tho.

Almost any animal bite is preferable to a turtle bite, especially one from an angry slider...

[YungRasputin]

Typical snake bites are underwhelming- paper cuts are much worse.

*minus scrubs and ETBs hehe

[Bogertophis]

*minus scrubs and ETBs hehe

That's what I meant by "typical"- typical as in what most people keep- BPs, corns- rat snakes, kings, bull snakes, etc. I sure didn't mean rattlesnakes either, lol.

[YungRasputin]

That's what I meant by "typical"- typical as in what most people keep- BPs, corns- rat snakes, kings, bull snakes, etc. I sure didn't mean rattlesnakes either, lol.

haha i mean true! i just said that cuz it used to seem like everyone had an ETB and i know that them + scrubs are supposed to have the largest fangs of the non-venomous/constrictor snakes lol

[Zincubus]

In my experience .. every royal Python bite / strike was food related


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