POLL: Have you been bit by a BP?

[loonunit]

AND HOW. I went to cat-sit for a friend of a friend, and she had a ball python. She said, "I dunno, the herp vet said he was obese. But he looks so skinny compared to your snakes? And he's been really cage aggressive lately, espeically after I feed him. Do you think he's hungry?"

And she handed him to me, and he immediately whipped around and bit my arm, then my hand, and then my ring finger. And the he wouldn't let go, and started to CONSTRICT my ring finger. We had to use a pencil to pry him off.

And I said: "Yeah, I think he's hungry."

[BallsUnlimited]

rat bites are the worst

[Bplove90210]

I haven't but I've only been doing this for a week but on the second day Silas (my snake) struck at me

[WarriorPrincess90]

My adult female tagged me once on the palm as I was putting her in her feeding tank. It felt like getting a shot at the doctor in several locations at once. Little bitty needles that were razor sharp. It stung a little, but more than anything I was surprised. Needless to say, she has a separate eating space because she's a wee bit food aggressive. She now eats in the bath tub where she can't reach me after I put her down. The extra space really seemed to calm her down. No problems since!

[MrBig]

Got tagged by babies a hand full of times, but that's actually cute and funny. I've gotten tagged by a couple sub adults and 2 adults. One was yesterday, a 2000 grm female that had refused food the past 2 times and just finished shedding. I opened her tub and had my thumb over the lip of the tub because that shelf is just a bit snug. When the tub was about an inch open she struck the bottom of my thumb on the inside of the tub and past my knucle with the top teeth. Then made a funny face as if I tasted bad and went back in but struck again as I closed the tub. So I went and got her a rat and she struck it before I could get the whole rat in and coiled so hard that she twisted the rat so hard that the fornt half was facing backwards and the back half was still facing the normal direction. Guess she was hungry.

[Annageckos]

Never been bitten by a BP. I did have one strike at my face while I was holding it. I had it just out of reach of my face, I remember looking into it's open mouth. I have only been bitten a couple of times. My worst and first was a 6 ft RTB when I was 4 or 5. It was my fault, the snake was in shed and I really, really wanted to hold him. My aunt warmed me, but I didn't listen and got bit for it. I had a Kenyan Sand boa bit and coil once, thinking my finger was food. Didn't hurt at all. The last bit was a baby yellow rat snake. I was holding it close to my neck and it slowly bit me, didn't break the skin though.

[evan385]

Never and i've had at least one ball python for over a year. I could stick my hand in a bucket of wet rats and she wouldn't bite me. I've done something similar and didn't get a bite. It might be a different story with my pastel, getting him tomorrow.

[Reakt20]

I used to get bit at least once a day at the pet shop i worked at about 10 years ago. we used to get farm raised bps in all the time and they were MEAN! they'd strike at the glass if you walked by them.

[cdavidson9]

The other night I had too much liquid courage, I decided to give my Jungle Carpet a look in the eye, while I was holding him (face to face mind you) as soon as I made eye contact he struck at my right eye, and made a nice ring of red dots surrounding the whole diameter of my eyeball. VERY close call.. note to self, don't trust Carpets. Luckily he only got to lick my actual eyeball. lol, Had a nice wound to show off, thank goodness he missed the eyeball. whew.

Had a couple of BP bites. Baby spiders... let me tell ya! too cute to even notice..

[Focal X]

I've never been bit by an adult snake. Never. Hatchling balls and BRB's have but never anything else for some reason. The closest I ever came to getting bit was by my burmese. I threw the rat in and he grabbed the enclosure lid and didn't go in. I reached for the rat, grabbed it, and the second I pulled away, the retic struck