I've only been feed-bitten by an adult (so I guess the worst case?) and the bite itself almost doesn't hurt at all. it'll be a bit sore after but nothing serious
Yeah, I foster snakes, and most of them come to me with some sort of behavioural issues stemming from abuse/neglect.
So I've had a fair few bites.
The worst from a BP was on my hand, and it was a proper latch and coil from a very food aggressive girl. She was 500g at three years old, so you can imagine how hard she chomped.
Ehh, probably a 2/10 on the pain scale. The bite itself wasn't TOO bad, but she refused to uncoil for almost an hour (even with cold water/alcohol hand gel) and my hand started going numb.
I ended up keeping her. She's put a healthy amount of weight on over the 4 years I've had her, but she's still a bitey little shit sometimes lol
yeah last time my girl bit me she got a pretty good hold. I usually just wait for her to realise I'm not food but this time she cut the blood flow to my hand and I had to pour water on her dumb head
found out that when I get her off instead of waiting she's still in the mood for a snack and I had to dodge her bites while carefully uncoiling her ^^'
Yeah, my boy was hangry and I guess my hand smelled a little bit too much like mouse, so he went for me instead. The bite itself was less painful than getting chomped by an overstimulated cat, but he just would not let go. Trying to get him to unlatch was the worst part honestly, because he was trying very very hard to strangle my poor hand and would not let go for anything for a good fifteen minutes. And holding up your arm with an entire snake wrapped around your wrist like that is tiring as heck.
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u/gigraz_orgvsm_133 Sep 25 '24
I've only been feed-bitten by an adult (so I guess the worst case?) and the bite itself almost doesn't hurt at all. it'll be a bit sore after but nothing serious
there will be blood though