Horror Stories

[Darkice]

A couple years ago I was feeding an adult female red tailed boa. I was holding a large rat above her head like I always do and she struck at it. She missed and I dropped the rat. Without thinking I reached in to regrab the rat and she struck my hand perfectly and started to coil. I withdrew my hand carefully and she then coiled her backside around the center top divider of the 75 gallon aquarium. So now im stuck next to the tank with a 9 foot snake crushing my arm and there is blood everywhere.

I scream up to my wife who is terrified of snakes to come help me. She flat out refuses to come downstairs.
After 30 min of my yelling she comes downstairs and hands me my weightlifting gloves. I get a glove on and proceed to remove the snakes toothy grip on my hand. The episode took about 30 min and made a huge mess of blood.
After I cleaned the wound the bite wasn’t that bad. But boy did it hurt.

[Kuba]

One time I fed my Bp and when he struck a mouse and a couple of his teeth went into the mouses eye, so there is a puddle of blood next to a squirming mouse(i was feeding live) The mouse eye ball is split open, blood gushing, but the BP ate it no prob, that my horror story.

[SlitherinSisters]

You guys are sick

My snakes aren't savages, they use forks and steak knives.

I don't have any nasty stories other than eyes popping out

[bad-one]

Well, when Anubis was young (under a year) he took a really bad rat bite. He struck and the rat managed to bite deeply into his neck, about an inch down from his head. I'm lucky it was only in the muscle. I left the wound alone mostly and it healed up on its own.




A few months ago, Ceasar was in his cage with a live rat (he is the only one I can't switch to f/t). I was sitting across the room and I hear a thump. I peek into the cage and see the rat is fine but there is some blood in the cage. I put the rat back into the rat cage and looked Ceasar over but I can't find where the couple of drops of blood came from. Fast forward a couple of days and I notice what is wrong, the very tip of his tail had been nearly cut off and was dead. Apparently, he struck the rat because it bit him . I removed the dead tip and proceeded to clean the wound for several days until I was sure it was infection free and I put neo on it until it closed it up.

It is healing nicely now. I can't believe I didn't notice it at first, I thought maybe the rat had been defensively struck and bled a little.

[SquamishSerpents]

A couple years ago I was feeding an adult female red tailed boa. I was holding a large rat above her head like I always do and she struck at it. She missed and I dropped the rat. Without thinking I reached in to regrab the rat and she struck my hand perfectly and started to coil. I withdrew my hand carefully and she then coiled her backside around the center top divider of the 75 gallon aquarium. So now im stuck next to the tank with a 9 foot snake crushing my arm and there is blood everywhere.

I scream up to my wife who is terrified of snakes to come help me. She flat out refuses to come downstairs.
After 30 min of my yelling she comes downstairs and hands me my weightlifting gloves. I get a glove on and proceed to remove the snakes toothy grip on my hand. The episode took about 30 min and made a huge mess of blood.
After I cleaned the wound the bite wasn’t that bad. But boy did it hurt.

whaaaaaaat, no pictures!?

[BallsUnlimited]

my 500 gram het albino male today was feeding. He thought he had killed the rat but it had some life left. as hes adjusting his head to start to swallow the rat it was crying and ate it the rest of the way. other than that havent had anything crazy happen unless it was with frozen thawed and my large sav monitor. He would bite so hard the mice or rat would burst.

[starfire]

I remember the date... July 28, 2008 and I've pulled a very large f/t white rat out of a plastic bag immersed in really hot water. I've got it on a pie tin plate so I can hit it with the hair dryer right before I feed it to my hungry adult male bp. I warm up the rat, step into the snake room, slide open the tub to see an interested snake, and as I'm reaching down with tongs and grabbing the big rat by the tail and holding it up over the tub --BLAM!-- It suddenly explodes like a gooey, intestine-y pinata---all over me, my face, the walls, floor, snake, rack. (Like I said, very large rat.) This certainly dimmed my enthusiasm but not the snake's, as he was covered with rat jam but anxious to eat. So I let him grab for the gusto--or gutso--and tried not to gag as I began cleaning up the mess and trying to do something about that smell. That lingering smell...

Learned alot that night about not overheating the rat.....

[WesleyTF]

my 500 gram het albino male today was feeding. He thought he had killed the rat but it had some life left. as hes adjusting his head to start to swallow the rat it was crying and ate it the rest of the way.

That happened to me TWICE in the past couple weeks. Today, my adult normal hit a medium rat pretty hard but toward the rear end. Started eating it and I could see it gasping for air through the snake's neck. She must've noticed, because she let go and reconstricted.

The other time was with my ~200g male spider. He's a wimpy hitter/constrictor and just didn't go strong enough/long enough to choke out the rat pup. I noticed the pup wimpering as he was getting the head into his mouth. Not tooooo horrifying, but I'd rather not see them being eaten alive...

[mechnut450]

I had a rescue last year. that was really hungry after getting it starting to eat and all again. mistook my hand the day after I fed her as more food ( was checking for uneating rodents and other clean up issues. ) Any how she grabbed my hand( thumb right down the throat of the snakes0 and proced to constrict my hand and wrist area. I was fine wit hthis knowign she would let go at some point iand i just haveo clean my hand, I was not ready for the fact she was trying to dislocate my thub and was knawing on it while she was squeezing it . I end up worknig her free and using a pair of butter knives to unhook her teeth from my thumb with out doing damage to both of us. I then gave her a small live rat which she snapped right up and bashed around the cage in her anger ofnot getting some finger food.

[CRAZY]

Starfire wins. Followed closely by Fire Eyes. Damn. I'm disturbed just reading about that. But don't let me stop you. Keep posting. Good lord. That sounds violent. I would like to appologize for not posting this in the "General Herps" section.