got tagged the other day, so i have a question for all of you guys and gals.

SlimeyLimey805 · 10-10-09, 10:37 AM

ok so earlier this week when i was feeding my baby Kali, after she was done devouring the mouse and all that cool stuff, i went to pick her up to remove her from her feeding box and then BAM

next thing i know. she's bitten me, latched on, and let go and gone back and curled back to defend herself. needless to say i was quite upset that this had happened. but it turns out i made a newb style mistake (using my amazing hind sight skill) i realized that i tried to pick her up with the same hand with which i had brought her food in to the box (yes i know dumbass move

and i feel very stupid for letting it happen) the good news is she is still a lil snakey snake atm (prolly about 18-24 inches and a couple of itches across at the thickest) so the bit did little more than almost make me **** my self xD and there was a pin prick size drop of blood from where she tagged me best. but other than that no harm done.

this whole story leads me to think of and ask this, what were the circumstances of some/all/one of your snake bites? either your first or maybe just your most interesting or supidest story it doesn't matter to me i am just curious. so uhh.. yea rsvp.

yours, Kyle Mallinson

Will0W783 · 10-10-09, 05:15 PM

Lol. Well, I have a bad knack for getting tagged, while my fiance hardly ever gets bitten. My first 2 bites were both feeding bites from my BP. The first time I was showing him to the maintenance guy in my old apartment and had just told him what a sweet, good-natured snake Saleen was. I forgot I'd been playing with my guinea pig and hadn't washed my hands. So I stick my hand in there and he just launches up and nails me- right across all of my fingers....he hung on too for a good 5-10 seconds. The maintenance guy blanched and ran out of the room..and I ran after him trying to calm him down with blood pouring off my hand..lmao. Second strike was when my fiance asked me to move Saleen's hide so we could feed him and he got me again. Normally he's a very calm good snake, but when he's hungry watch out. Other than that my white-lipped gal got me when I was soaking her, and my baby coastal carpet got me and my female GTP just grazed my thumb but that bled like a mofo. My kingsnake "tastes" me every time I hold him. Just a little nip, but enough to sting.
I think the funniest bite I have ever witnessed though, was my Macklot's python Cipher's work on my fiance. I just got Cipher and was unsure of his temperament so I was wearing gloves with him. My fiance John just scooped Cipher up and brought him downstairs and was going on about how cool he was, when suddenly, John said "ummm, he's getting awful tight on my arm" and tried to loosen his coils. Cipher just slowly and calmly slid his head along John's wrist, then opened his mouth and engulfed two fingers, and bit down.....no strike, no hiss, just a gentle polite sneak attack bite..lmao. When John pried him off though, he got pissed and struck and got John again...
It had to hurt but man, it was funny. It was like the snake was thinking, "hmmm...I wonder what he tastes like...I think I'll take a taste..."

Phoenix446 · 10-11-09, 07:01 PM

"Noob" happens. I've never been tagged by any of the boidae that I keep now, but when I kept culabrids I'd get tagged all the time, hence the reason I don't keep anymore.

MegF · 10-11-09, 07:53 PM

All bites I've received from my snakes are feeding responses. Either when I take them out to feed (they smell the thawing mice) or if I take them out of the feeding boxes and they are still in feeding mode. It doesn't matter if you smell like mouse or not, if they think there's food coming in the box, they strike. I've had the green tree pythons nail my hand if I put it in the cage after dark. I usually try to spray them first so that they know I'm not feeding, but it doesn't always work. I've had a few defensive strikes but no real bites from various species (usually the arboreals, but also the false water cobras...especially if they are hungry). the longest hold was one of my Okeetee cornsnakes. He grabbed the inside of my arm and wrapped my arm. I couldn't get him to let go, even with cold water etc. As I was rumaging around for some drinking alcohol that was cheap enough to waste on a cornsnake, he finally let go. Couldn't get him to unwrap me though, so I just walked around the house with a large cornsnake armwrap until he gave up. Then I fed him! My other funny one was my amel cornsnake. He was a voracious eater and since all my feeding boxes were being used I decided to just put him on the floor and feed him his rat. I dangled it on the tongs, he struck, I dropped the rat and he went after me. Here was this 4 ft cornsnake, mouth open, chasing me around the snake room. I was fending him off with the feeding tongs and a paper towel (think matador) yelling at him that the rat was behind him....as if he would understand that! I finally got a hold of the rat and stuck it in his face. Last time I fed him outside a feeding box!

Will0W783 · 10-12-09, 07:33 AM

Lol. That must have been quite a sight with the cornsnake after you in your snake room..too bad you didnt' have a camcorder.

siz · 10-12-09, 07:15 PM

Meg....that is freaking hilarious. Killer corns

BP_okay · 10-12-09, 08:02 PM

MegF LMAO! Matador Meg vs. amel corn! I just love how we talk to our snakes thinking they can understand us.

MegF · 10-13-09, 03:07 AM

Even if I'd had a camcorder, I think the only thing you would have seen was a jiggling, blurry mess and muffled cursing-and maybe a bit of white paper towel. I'm only glad I didn't scream like the girl I am

As far as matador......he won.....Their mouths are really big when they are coming after you! It's like the rabbit in Monty Python's Holy Grail "But he's got very big teeth!"

SlimeyLimey805 · 10-13-09, 09:32 AM

haha that would be quite a video (cloverfield status) those are quite an array of stories, makes mine sound pretty lame by comparison :[ haha. but also makes me feel glad that my bite was by the hands (or mouth) of a small, well tempremented snake..

MegF · 10-14-09, 03:27 AM

He was a very mellow snake...just not at feeding time. We called him Orca at that time as he'd leap out of the feeding box for the mouse.

SlimeyLimey805 · 10-15-09, 11:53 AM

hahaha wow a leaping snake, never would've thought it. how large is he? and how high does he manage to leap? that sounds like quite a sight to behold. "hey guys check out my snake he can jump!"

MegF · 10-16-09, 05:29 AM

He was around 4 ft. and he would clear the edge of the feeding box. It was a rather large cardboard box that was maybe 2 ft. high. He'd go over the top of that to get the food off the tongs.

SlimeyLimey805 · 10-16-09, 09:53 PM

haha nice. sounds like quiet a show.

MegF · 10-17-09, 02:32 AM

Look out Sea World! He's now a teaching snake in Illinois and the hit of the elementary school!

SlimeyLimey805 · 10-17-09, 11:09 AM

that sounds great! teaching younger children that snakes (and all reptiles) should be loved and can make great pets. instead of them growing up thinking of them as scary or gross or what have you. glad to hear that he is serving as an ambassador for the entire reptile class.