Man bitten by BP while on toilet

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From the perspective of a BP owner going to the hospital for a BP bite is pretty funny, but I guess for someone who has no knowledge of snakes they'd want to rule out the possibility that the snake was venomous and make sure the person got to the hospital just in case it was.

The number of times I've seen or helped snake IDs for someone and told them "No, it is a rat snake, it is not venomous or poisonous." Or something similar. And immediately been asked, "But it bit my dog, did it poison my dog?/do I need to rush him to the vet?" (Implying to get antivenom/treatment, not just for a medical wrap for bleeding from puncture wounds.) As if a nonvenomous snake IS still venomous to other animals like a dog.


To be fair to the guy or whoever sent him to the hospital, if this snake was living in the plumbing for any length of time, I'd probably want a doctor to rule out any nasties from the plumbing being inside the injury. Drinking toilet water or any pee/poop from the toilet near/in its mouth would definitely give it a less sanitary mouth than our pets do, that's for sure.

I'm also proud of whoever decided to include the edit statement that they updated the picture because they had previously had a Burmese python picture instead of a ball python and the effort to explain the difference between the most common pet python and the much larger invasive Burmese python people tend to jump to when the word python is used.

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