First Time Tagged...with Pics

[PigsnPythons]

Yesterday was feeding day and I was weighing my biggest girl. I picked her up off the scale and next thing I know I'm being bit. Luckily I didn't see her strike or else I think I would have dropped her. Well anyway, here's the pics my room-mate took. I'm oddly proud of it...my first time being bit...and it was my biggest girl...at least I know that it couldn't be any worse...lol







I've never seen her exhibit any form of aggression before. In fact, I consider her one of my most docile and easy-going snakes. I'm pretty sure that I was just mistaken as food.

[dr del]

Hi,

to bite club.

The first rule of bite club is...... we post pictures ( so so far ).


dr del

[Gloryhound]

How big is she? I know the first one that is going to tag me is going to be one of our big girls and I just want an idea of the damage a 1800 gram or 1600 gram girl does.

[ADEE]

lol, congrats!! i didnt get bit nearly that good. i know what you mean about being proud. awesome pics so i must ask. did it hurt

[PigsnPythons]

She's a solid 1500 grams. Yes it hurt (like I could feel the teeth in my finger..) but it wasn't excruciating or anything like that. The shock of being tagged was much worse than the actual bite.

[frankykeno]

Welcome to Bite Club! You know you're a real herper when you get bit and the first thing you think to do is yell..."quick somebody grab a camera!"

[ChicaPiton519]

I'm oddly proud of it...

If you like snakes... obviously.... then its not odd hahah
there is a 7 foot coastal carpet at the pet store by me that i wanted to hold and the lady wouldnt let me, because it has shown signs of aggression... and i told her i would be honored to get bit by that snake...
she looked at me like i was wack (i prolly am) but its the truth haha

[Kerig3]

Let us know if you bruise tomorrow. I'm new to BP's, but back when I was 18 (I'm an old fart now) I got tagged by my 7+ ft. Boa, and he bit me right in the face (does that mean I too am in bite club?). It didn't hurt that bad...I was mostly shocked at what happened. But when I woke up the next morning the whole side of my face was bruised badly...I actually looked like I had been in a bad bar fight. Try explaining to your coworkers that your snake bit you when they joke that you lost the fight!

Too bad there were no digital camera's back then...in the stone-age...

[frankykeno]

Let us know if you bruise tomorrow. I'm new to BP's, but back when I was 18 (I'm an old fart now) I got tagged by my 7+ ft. Boa, and he bit me right in the face (does that mean I too am in bite club?). It didn't hurt that bad...I was mostly shocked at what happened. But when I woke up the next morning the whole side of my face was bruised badly...I actually looked like I had been in a bad bar fight. Try explaining to your coworkers that your snake bit you when they joke that you lost the fight!

Too bad there were no digital camera's back then...in the stone-age...

You took a bite to the face from an over 7 foot boa! Heck you can be King of the Bite Club!

I'm pretty lucky - with all the snakes we have I've only been tagged once and that was through gloves so it wasn't anything more than a paper cut (heck those hurt worse!) Since I've posted this, this means of course, every snake we own will now consider it a personal challenge to sink their teeth into me in the coming days!

I'm ancient too Kerig. I remember back before there were VCR's! How did we ever survive LOL.

[PigsnPythons]

Only my pinky fingered bruised, and even then it wasn't really that significant. In the face!!! Wow!

Jo, you better knock on wood after saying that! About an hour before the bite occured, my room-mate was feeding her snakes and one of them struck at her. I said "Can you believe that neither one of us has gotten tagged yet? A year of ball pythons and 12 snakes between us...you'd think one of them would have gotten us by now..." lol