why you shouldnt care about being bit by a snake

[cmack91]

i have, i took a feeding response bite from a 10-12ft scrub, she got my hand wrapped around my arm and everything, but no stitches, even after ten minutes of fighting with her. i know you need to take snake bites seriously and im sure everyone else here knows that too. common sense tells people to treat a snake bite just like any other wound, you keep it clean, and if it gets infected, or you react to it, or if its serious, you take care of it, ive never met someone that didnt know that. im not trying to imply that you leave it be and rub it in raw chicken grease or anything, any one with a brain will know not to take the title of the post as litteral advice, and if they do, im sorry for that person being so utterly stupid.

and im not saying you guys are stupid, cause obviously you know that you have to care for bites, just like any other wound

[Skiploder]

i have, i took a feeding response bite from a 10-12ft scrub, she got my hand wrapped around my arm and everything, but no stitches, even after ten minutes of fighting with her. i know you need to take snake bites seriously and im sure everyone else here knows that too. common sense tells people to treat a snake bite just like any other wound, you keep it clean, and if it gets infected, or you react to it, or if its serious, you take care of it, ive never met someone that didnt know that. im not trying to imply that you leave it be and rub it in raw chicken grease or anything, any one with a brain will know not to take the title of the post as litteral advice, and if they do, im sorry for that person being so utterly stupid.

and im not saying you guys are stupid, cause obviously you know that you have to care for bites, just like any other wound

No one was stupid enough to take your title as literal advice. Don't you worry about that.

I think most of us figured out you have absolutely no experience dealing with snakes that are capable of inflicting a serious bite. Case in point - comparing a amethystine python bite with a dry bite.

For what it's worth, a dry is not a scrub python - but you knew that - right? Keep your wits when a scrub bites you and you are left with a couple of punctures after you wipe up the blood.

Even if you keep you hand still, a dry will gnaw chew, rip and tear at your hand. They are not constrictors that go for a bite and a wrap but bully feeders that overpower and swallow smaller prey, but rip and tear and lacerate larger items like your hand. You are left with tears and gashes that require stitches. Not punctures that require a little dab of neosporin.

[cmack91]

No one was stupid enough to take your title as literal advice. Don't you worry about that.

I think most of us figured out you have absolutely no experience dealing with snakes that are capable of inflicting a serious bite. Case in point - comparing a amethystine python bite with a dry bite.

For what it's worth, a dry is not a scrub python - but you knew that - right? Keep your wits when a scrub bites you and you are left with a couple of punctures after you wipe up the blood.

Even if you keep you hand still, a dry will gnaw chew, rip and tear at your hand. They are not constrictors that go for a bite and a wrap but bully feeders that overpower and swallow smaller prey, but rip and tear and lacerate larger items like your hand. You are left with tears and gashes that require stitches. Not punctures that require a little dab of neosporin.

your right, i dont have experience with snakes like that and i never implied that i do, and what exactly is a dry then? the only time ive heard that is when someone is talking about non-venomous

[cmack91]

i got what you said about them being "bullys", but are some species that eat like that?

[Atherosdragon]

my wife was bit on her forearm by one of our previous guinea pigs he was fighting one of the others she tried to split them up and got 2 puncture wounds the size of pencil leads and they were an inch apart with a purple/green bruise about 4 inches around she couldn't move it at all for a week... she got tagged by our first RTB it was starved and we rescued it from an ignorant individual who fed it 1 mouse every month and we didn't know that at the time he explained it after we pulled the RTB off my wife's forearm... same arm as Guinea Pig actually and there was no residual damage after about 2 days she still has 2 spots and a knot between them to this day from the Guinea Pigs

[cmack91]

im sorry, rodents have pretty nasty bites, even mice can, thats why i dont mess with any of them

[purplemuffin]

Rodents do have some serious bites... That was the first thing on my mind when I met someone who said he used to have pet capybaras

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I don't even want to think about a rodent that big biting me!! LOL

[JLC]

your right, i dont have experience with snakes like that and i never implied that i do, and what exactly is a dry then? the only time ive heard that is when someone is talking about non-venomous

Skip is talking about a species called Drymarchon...which are a very large colubrid also known as Indigos. They are not venomous...the "dry" is simply a shorthand for the species name.

[cmack91]

Skip is talking about a species called Drymarchon...which are a very large colubrid also known as Indigos. They are not venomous...the "dry" is simply a shorthand for the species name.

okay, thanks, i'll look into those, i like the pumpkin by the way