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09-18-02, 05:20 PM
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Join Date: Aug-2002
Location: Manitoba
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Once bitten, twice shy...
How many times has everyone taken a hit from one of their reptiles????
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09-18-02, 06:18 PM
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Join Date: Feb-2002
Location: Ottawa
Age: 48
Posts: 189
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With my current collection over the last couple of years I have yet to get bitten. I've had enough snakes and lizards that have tried though. Hopefully with some luck and skill it'll stay that way for a while to come.
When I was young is a whole different story though. I'd have to say I was bitten hundreds to thousands of times by garters and milks. 
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09-18-02, 06:18 PM
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Location: Christchurch
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Too many and not enough  LOL...more than I could even remember, that's all I know....
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09-18-02, 06:45 PM
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Join Date: Jul-2002
Location: Ottawa/Lindsay ON
Age: 43
Posts: 278
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I get hit by one of my critters at least once a day. My hands are starting to look pretty rough. Seems every snake I own is cute and cuddly before I buy it and something changes once they come through the door to their new home.
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09-18-02, 07:16 PM
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Join Date: Jul-2002
Location: Brampton, Ontario, CANADA
Age: 70
Posts: 478
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Once bitten, twice shy...
Way too many to remember, stopped counting probably 25 years ago.
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09-18-02, 11:07 PM
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Join Date: Jul-2002
Location: ClearLake, Texas
Age: 51
Posts: 1,185
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I recieved 2 hunger bites from my cb 02 texas ratsnake before I had the chance to feed him LoL
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09-19-02, 05:37 AM
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Join Date: Jul-2002
Location: Sanford, North Carolina
Age: 54
Posts: 759
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Both of our milk snakes are like little sewing machines... they have their good days and they have those days that they could make a good living in a piercing salon.... five-ten minutes of handling is about all they will tolerate... and then it's like tryng to hold onto a hot potato the whole time.
Jon
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09-19-02, 06:49 AM
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Join Date: Feb-2002
Location: Ottawa
Age: 43
Posts: 2,564
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lol Ive been bitten too many times! Probably about 10 times in the past by my colloection of animals .. (EXCLUDING my rock - he has gotten me over 50 times in the past 8 month - alhought he has never gottan me when I dd not want him to get me - Im trying to tame him down - its not working!) ..
And too man times at the zoo .. I am a walking scar .. lol
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09-19-02, 07:29 AM
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Join Date: Jun-2002
Location: Kingston, Ontario
Age: 43
Posts: 128
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the only one of my repties that has bitten me was one of my cane toads, and it's because I was holding a mouse at the time....also, they don't really have teeth per se, so no harm done. I was bitten by a baby chameleon at work once, and the little blighter didn't let go for a couple of minutes!!!
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09-19-02, 04:00 PM
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Join Date: Sep-2002
Location: Ontario, Canada
Age: 61
Posts: 86
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Snake Bites
I was bitten by a milk snake ....repeatedly several years ago but he was a temporary capture and soon released. As for my actual pets, only once and that was only a graze on my leg by my 7 foot boa. Its amazing that a graze can release so much blood. oh well, it is much less painfull or damaging than the dog bites I have received.
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09-20-02, 05:29 PM
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Join Date: Jun-2002
Location: Trenton
Posts: 6,075
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I've never been bitten, but our dog did, when he tried to lick one of our snakes.
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09-20-02, 08:57 PM
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Join Date: Aug-2002
Location: CT
Age: 45
Posts: 4
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When you rescue reptiles and they're "nice" it ussually meens they are on the sick side (depending on herp of course)
So I normally welcome the hit and misses. my 5.5 ft blue ornate nile just wacked my hand so bad (my fault - long story)
But I wonderfully got to have necroptic tissue removed from my hand the following day.!
You gotta love em'
and the great stories you can tell along with the scars...lol
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09-21-02, 12:52 PM
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Join Date: Sep-2002
Location: Danville
Age: 38
Posts: 1
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I got mail!!!
My ball python bit me in the store when I first bought him. I barely felt it. I've had him for about a year now, and he bit me again the other day. That one I felt, because he's a lot bigger and his teeth are like a bunch of little needles. I was surprised because he's usually so calm. He's never balled up like they're supposed to when they're scared. That's all.
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09-23-02, 05:18 PM
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Join Date: May-2002
Location: nanaimo
Age: 59
Posts: 889
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wow i did not know we were such sadist's
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10-06-02, 07:39 AM
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Member
Join Date: Oct-2002
Location: Montreal
Age: 50
Posts: 1,455
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I've never been bitten by my snakes until I got my new baby milk snake (pueblan). He's quite tiny and very feisty! The little bugger bit me a couple of times but it didn't hurt, it was actually pretty funny to see the little guy do it! Just hope he calms down with handling when he gets older 
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