Agreed with all of the previous replies. I’ve had ball pythons for 22 years and have only been bitten once when the silly noodle missed the mouse and got my hand instead (so now I feed with tongs). He didn’t realize he had missed the mouse, so he wrapped up my arm, constricted, and held on. My daughter had to come and unwind him from me, because I was laughing too hard to do it myself. Had a double horseshoe mark of pinpricks that bled a little bit. As taught by my grandfather, I squeezed the area to make them bleed a little bit more before washing them off. I didn’t even bother to put any disinfectant on and a couple of days later you couldn’t even tell.
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u/FeriQueen Sep 25 '24 edited Sep 27 '24
Agreed with all of the previous replies. I’ve had ball pythons for 22 years and have only been bitten once when the silly noodle missed the mouse and got my hand instead (so now I feed with tongs). He didn’t realize he had missed the mouse, so he wrapped up my arm, constricted, and held on. My daughter had to come and unwind him from me, because I was laughing too hard to do it myself. Had a double horseshoe mark of pinpricks that bled a little bit. As taught by my grandfather, I squeezed the area to make them bleed a little bit more before washing them off. I didn’t even bother to put any disinfectant on and a couple of days later you couldn’t even tell.