Howq often have you been bitten??

[Hellix2494]

You play with fire you get burned, you play with snakes you get bit??

I have only been bitten twice so far.

First time was by my small BP when i was feeding him.

Second happened two days ago, and I am not really sure why it happened. I was feeding my two males and had their tubs out on the ground, one on either side of my rack about 2 feet apart. They are 15qt steralites. I decided that I wanted to move the 15 to the top shelf and my large female to the bottom shelf, and since I already had the two 15's out all i had to do was pull out the 31qt and slide it in the bottom shelf. While I was pulling her out she pops her head out snifs my hand and then bites my thumb, it shocked me and i ended up launching her 5ft acrost the room cause she didn't let go of my thumb when she bit me???

I have been breeding her to my pastel male and She may have ovulated. ( not sure as this is my first time breeding) Do the females get really protective the closer they get to laying eggs? or do you think she might have smelled the mice and then bit me? I had been feeding her F/T rats by holding them by the tail in front of her. She may have thought I was feeding her???

Snake is OK by the way and my thumb will survive.

So what are your stories??

[reptile3]

I have never been bitten...

[FatBoy]

Holy crap...can'tcount the times!! Happens a lot.

[TanyaL]

No bites here! Of course, it's impossible if I don't get close enough to get tagged! LOL Too scared!

[Stewart_Reptiles]

By a BP only twice.

[Hellix2494]

Panzys LOL. That is cool that you haven't experienced that yet.

The first time wasn't bad cause he is small. The second was by my breeding female of 1400g. OWCH!!! And she got me on the knuckle where there is no meat just bone.

[rabernet]

Did you wash your hands after handling the mice before attempting to move her? Sounds like a classic feed strike, a defensive strike is more of a bluff with a hit and release.

As for how many times I've been bitten, I'd guess six or seven times, all defensive strikes because I wasn't paying attention.

[FatBoy]

Holy crap...can'tcount the times!! Happens a lot.

[catawhat75]

Well as soon as I say it, it will happen, so if it does it's your fault
From one of my BPs, never. By my Children's Python, more times than I can count. From a 10 ft Burmese once and it HURT, dang thing had been missing for 2 months in the petstore I worked at and I was the one to find it. Hungry, right by the rat bins. It latched onto my hand, wrapped around my arm and would not let go!

[Hellix2494]

Did you wash your hands after handling the mice before attempting to move her? Sounds like a classic feed strike, a defensive strike is more of a bluff with a hit and release.

As for how many times I've been bitten, I'd guess six or seven times, all defensive strikes because I wasn't paying attention.

I am not sure if I did or not. cause after that I put her in anohter tank and gave her a rat and she ate. I thought I had washed my hands but may not have.