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How does a bite feel?

kathylove said:
The velcro analogy is good for a baby corn, or young juvenile. But I would describe an adult corn or rat snake bite as about 1/2 as bad as when my kitten starts playing too roughly and gives me a good scratch. A little sting, but nothing of concern. But I must say that the adult corn bite heals up amazingly fast, to where I can't feel it at all anymore in a day or two. But the kitten scratches often sting a little for several days and take much longer to heal. "Mean" little kitty - but SO adorable and SO worth it, lol!
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Oooh, kittens! My big boy just nailed me on the knuckle bone with his claw (talking cats, not corns!) while playing just now, I saw stars. That DOES hurt.

Snow was a bite maniac at the end of her life, she was 13 but it still didn't hurt, and only one drew blood but by the end of the day you couldn't even see it anymore.
 
Well I'm just glad to hear that it's not terrible! Lol. Right now she's only about 26 inches, and I'm not afraid of her. What I'm worried about is when she's 4+ feet. I wish she would bite me now so I could get an idea of what it feels like, but I don't want to make her angry on purpose :/ She rattled her tail at me once and hissed and I felt SO guilty. (I shouldn't have put her in her feeding box while cleaning her viv) I also have my boyfriend's ball python with me for the summer. She is so incredibly sweet, I can't imagine her ever biting anyone, but I have a feeling it would really hurt. Her teeth are QUITE large lol.
 
I know I posted earlier about this, but tonight Boots (over 900g) was the only one not being fed (he now gets one XL mouse every 10-12 days, so it wasn't his day. After I fed everyone and Bootsie was out of his hide so I went to hold him. I always grab the middle but tonight I went close to his face and, having just touched mice, he nailed me! It was never painful although he did draw a lot of blood. He was so hard to get off, he coiled around my arm. I finally pinched his jaws and got the top set off, then being gentle finessed the rest of his teeth out of my thumb.
 

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Woah! Well that doesn't look TOO bad..but I imagine it was quite a shock. I saw where you posted this on another thread. Why do you blow in it's face? I haven't heard that one before.
 
ShelbyScott said:
Woah! Well that doesn't look TOO bad..but I imagine it was quite a shock. I saw where you posted this on another thread. Why do you blow in it's face? I haven't heard that one before.
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No, the pic doesn't look as bad as it was, there was a lot of blood and this is after washing it and peroxide. Today it is sort of scabbed over, but the holes are really tiny.

I blew in his face because he was totally dug in and coiling my wrist, so after a few moments of trying to gently pull him off I blew in his face, he didn't like it and loosened up a bit. I kept doing it a few times but it didn't do much after the first few blows. Most animals don't like it when you blow in their face, and being in the situation I was, I just was thinking of anything I could that wouldn't harm him to get myself loose. Yes, I even asked and pleaded with him nicely!

I was in a bit of shock, but it really didn't hurt painfully, it was more of a scare because I didn't want to hurt him, he is my favorite, he is a sweetheart and I did all the wrong moves from handling him without washing my hands to placing my hand directly above his head when I went to get him out. Every time I have been bitten was my fault, except when my Snow went crazy this spring and struck and hit every time my hand was in the viv to change the water, but she only broke the skin once and later I found out it was because she needed a lay box and was desperately being protective.
 
smigon said:
No, the pic doesn't look as bad as it was, there was a lot of blood and this is after washing it and peroxide. Today it is sort of scabbed over, but the holes are really tiny.

I blew in his face because he was totally dug in and coiling my wrist, so after a few moments of trying to gently pull him off I blew in his face, he didn't like it and loosened up a bit. I kept doing it a few times but it didn't do much after the first few blows. Most animals don't like it when you blow in their face, and being in the situation I was, I just was thinking of anything I could that wouldn't harm him to get myself loose. Yes, I even asked and pleaded with him nicely!

I was in a bit of shock, but it really didn't hurt painfully, it was more of a scare because I didn't want to hurt him, he is my favorite, he is a sweetheart and I did all the wrong moves from handling him without washing my hands to placing my hand directly above his head when I went to get him out. Every time I have been bitten was my fault, except when my Snow went crazy this spring and struck and hit every time my hand was in the viv to change the water, but she only broke the skin once and later I found out it was because she needed a lay box and was desperately being protective.
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You can always run his face under tap water for a second or two to get him to let go. One of mine once bit, held on, and coiled tightly around my wrist and I was interested in watching him, but after a few minutes I was ready for him to let go, so I went over to the sink and just then he let go, so he didn't have to get water boarded after all.
 
Uncoiling the body usually works too, at least for corns. I've had a king or two that uncoiling, running water, an alcohol swab, etc. had no effect on.
 
hypnoctopus said:
You can always run his face under tap water for a second or two to get him to let go. One of mine once bit, held on, and coiled tightly around my wrist and I was interested in watching him, but after a few minutes I was ready for him to let go, so I went over to the sink and just then he let go, so he didn't have to get water boarded after all.
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Haw! I didn't want to admit it, but I was TOTALLY fascinated with it to at first and just sort of watched for a few minutes since I wasn't in pain!

I was headed for the sink if the pinching of his jaws didn't work. I always pinch my cats' jaws to get them to open for teeth brushing or taking a pill, so I figured it would probably work on snakes too.

Hopefully I will never do anything dumb like that again, but now I have another tactic to use! Thanks!

Chip said:
Uncoiling the body usually works too, at least for corns.
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I did try that, but unfortunately he was biting my dominant hand and since he is so big my left hand was having a hard time uncoiling him. And, as I confessed, I was too busy observing the bite to start uncoiling immediately. For my smaller kiddos that would have worked, but not so with Godzilla here.
 
I've got an adult that is super cage protective. I'll usually take a couple of bites from her trying to take her out for handling. Also a couple of my sub adults tend to miss the mouse. It is more startling than anything, try to resist the urge to pull your hand away as you might hurt him. Also I agree with the Velcro analogy completely. A boa bite is a different story.
 
It's usually so fast you dont even realize it until its done but the bigger ones do hurt a little bit. As long as they don't latch on that might be a little worse...

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ShelbyScott said:
I also have my boyfriend's ball python with me for the summer. She is so incredibly sweet, I can't imagine her ever biting anyone, but I have a feeling it would really hurt. Her teeth are QUITE large lol.
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Yes ball python bites hurt. We have one who never bit anyone in 4 years but he tagged my husband once and latched on and left some teeth imbedded in his skin. It was our fault though. They were in our garage and he left a mouse to thaw sitting on top and forgot about it for about 24 hours. (Usually we leave the food to thaw in a completely different room). he tossed the mouse outside and then opened the cage to get the snake without washing his hands...


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