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Ian Calvert
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 02/09/2011 : 23:19:43
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| Anyone been bitten by their Royal on here? |
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markmifsud
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
534 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2011 : 23:27:02
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yep, I have lol, and yes, it hurt. She is quite a big girl, around 2kg at the time, starting to shed, eyes blue. I had just fed her, as normal out of the viv. Put her back in, and had a refusual from another, so like a fool I just offered the rat to her in the viv. She struck like she hadnt been fed for a week, the base of my thumb was in her mouth and she coiled around my arm. After a quick "yelp" well, it was a swear word or two actually lol, I took her and my arm into the kitchen, run her under the cold water and uncoiled her from my arm. Once she was uncoiled, she let go of my thumb, blood everywhere.
After a quick clean up, and a liberal amount of antibacs the bleeding more or less stopped. |
1.1.0 Pastal Ball
1.0.0 Normal Ball aged 7(ish)
0.1.0 Normal Ball aged 7(ish)
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Posted - 02/09/2011 : 23:31:24
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| LOL - you too, Mark! |
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SaltyTurtle
Yearling
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Posted - 02/09/2011 : 23:31:42
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Nope, hissed at tonight for the first time since he's in blue (shedding) for the first time since I've had him, and only noticed when I went to pick him up and he recoiled & hissed (normally comes willingly).
I heard from one shop that the owner got bitten by a Captive Caught Female Adult that had barely been handled and was brought into the shop, but it was the first Royal that had bitten him in 20 plus years of snakery!
I've heard most bites are due to human error. For example people handling prey (mice, rats, chicks) and then not washing their hands, then going to pick snakey up (maybe after unsuccessful feed attempt) and snakey senses heat, smells rat & goes for strike two, onto owners hand. Poor husbandry and lack of consideration seem to be the only reason they'd bite thee. |
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markmifsud
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
534 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2011 : 23:35:09
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| Yes Bats, I had just read your story also lol. At least we do know it was a feeding response and not a attack. Not quite sure how I would have felt had it appeared to have been a personal atttack |
1.1.0 Pastal Ball
1.0.0 Normal Ball aged 7(ish)
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Ian Calvert
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
11 Posts |
Posted - 02/09/2011 : 23:38:13
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| Thanks everyone. The reason I ask is my daughter got snapped at today as she startled the snake while I was removing him from the Viv |
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Posted - 02/09/2011 : 23:41:39
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Originally posted by markmifsud
Yes Bats, I had just read your story also lol. At least we do know it was a feeding response and not a attack. Not quite sure how I would have felt had it appeared to have been a personal atttack
Yeah, I think snappy royals are few and far between ...a royal bite's usually the equivalent of when you feed a horse a bit of carrot and not keeping your hand spread out, so you get your fingers nipped ...it's just excitement and good appetite really ...moral of the story, only approach a royal on feeding day with tongs (and rat attached to tongs lol!) |
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Posted - 02/09/2011 : 23:44:33
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Thanks everyone. The reason I ask is my daughter got snapped at today as she startled the snake while I was removing him from the Viv
Ah, I see. What happened? Did she put her hand out to him? The warmth of her fingers may have led the snake to think that he was getting fed. |
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Ian Calvert
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/09/2011 : 23:50:32
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| Actually BAT, she visible startled him, I wasn't surprised as I think the snake was just getting settled with the surroundings. |
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Posted - 02/09/2011 : 23:56:50
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Originally posted by Ian Calvert
Actually BAT, she visible startled him, I wasn't surprised as I think the snake was just getting settled with the surroundings.
Ah, right, I just wondered if the response to human body warmth (royals' heat pits just below their nose are their chief heat sensors and used in tracking prey) had kick-started a feeding response. Yes, he probably is just settling in as well. All the best with him. |
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BlueDragon
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
876 Posts |
Posted - 03/09/2011 : 11:18:03
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Yeah, I got bite by Pandora (my corn snake who has now sadly passed) when she was a baby. She was always a very keen feeder and proably thought my finger was a mouse.
Tig bite me once. Two of the tiniest little spots of blood your ever likely to se mind you, and it didn't hurt. Just a bit of a shock! I'd dropped his rat and was trying to retreive it again... my bad! X ) |
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Kelfezond
The bearded one
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03/09/2011 : 11:35:38
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| Yes I get bit every time I handle anubis lol |
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prozacbear
Yearling
United Kingdom
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Lorraine
Yearling
United Kingdom
480 Posts |
Posted - 03/09/2011 : 11:54:39
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| Not yet...touch wood. |
1.0.0 CB11 Normal Royal, Oscar.
1.0.0 German Shepherd, Bailey.
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Evolution Morphs
Old Royal - I Post too much!
United Kingdom
2265 Posts |
Posted - 03/09/2011 : 13:02:37
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I've been tagged once buy my pinstripe
He's only 300g + It was the shock that was worst than the bite
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now on facebook
Royal Pythons
http://www.facebook.com/EvolutionMorphs
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jhk2005
Yearling
United Kingdom
166 Posts |
Posted - 03/09/2011 : 17:03:20
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| only by my vanilla - he's just a moody wotsit, but i love him still the same haha! :) |
1.6.0 Normal Royals - Will, Grace, Lolly, Patty, Maddie, Mystique, Victoria
1.1.0 Pastel Royals - Becks, Sophie
0.1.0 Spider Royal - Charlotte
0.1.0 Mojave Royal - Mo
1.1.0 Yellowbelly Royals - Pinky, Perky
1.0.0 Pinstripe Royal - Pip
1.0.0 Bumblebee Royal - Buzz
1.0.0 Vanilla Royal - Vinnie
1.0.0 Lesser Royal - Leo
1.0.0 Cinnamon Royal - Sam
1.0.0 Burmese Python - Kane
0.1.0 Albino Burmese Python - Amber
1.0.0 Redfoot Tortoise - Chucky |
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