Snake bite

[andrea]

well i knew it would come to this one day. That new snake we got.. just bit my fh. I am so mad i could scream i yelled at him he yelled at the snake ugh it was awful...

i am just so glad that the snake didnt bite him so hard that he need stiches but the snake did bite so hard that it drew blood and it took seemed like forever for it to stop bleeding.. ughh i hate these darn things

[Deana]

Oh no! I hope he's ok. Man that is kinda scary. I've watched some programs on Discovery channel where people get bite by super poisonous snakes... Hope fh is doing OK!

[andrea]

thanks i think he is doing ok he is on the couch watching a movie he said it didnt hurt that it just scared him more then anything and after she bite him he was trying to be claim with her and im just yelling put her down over and over.. then he reached back in her cage and got her water bowl and gave her water... so i think he is ok now... but i have a huge headache over it

[Kaj]

:eek: OUCH!!!!!! :eek:

[meliz]

egads. I cannot imagine having a snake as a pet. Ack. (a wee bit of a phobia). What kind is the biter? Not poisonous?

[Lisa]

Ouch. I hope fh is doing okay. I could never imagine getting bit by a snake. First of all I would never be that close to one.

[suzieq728]

OMG Andrea, is he ok? Is the snake poinious? OUCH....

[Life201]

I’m so sorry he got bit. Glad he’s okay.

I’m phobic about snakes too. I’m also of the mindset that there are certain animals that are not meant to be pets. Just as some people try to keep Tigers and bears and other kinds of wild animals and end up getting bitten or worse…

I don’t think anyone deserves to be bitten or attacked, but animals are unpredictable and you never, ever know exactly what they’ll do, even our domestic pets – like cats and dogs, right Deana?

[andrea]

thanks guys for checking in.. he is ok.. when i claimed down from it all i looked it up on the internet and it said that a boa's bite is no worse then a cat scratch.

no suzie he is not poisonous if he was i dont think we could own them.

I did find this on a website we always go to

You can also expect some bruising in the area because of bleeding under the skin. In any case, falling off a bike and skinning-up your hands or knees is a much more severe wound than a snake bite.

[andrea]

oh yeah something else i was going to add is the webpage also said because she is a constrictor we shouldnt worry about the bite because They kill their prey by wrapping around it and constricting its breathing. so we would have to worry if she wrapped around our necks... but we wont let her around them to begin with LOL

but thanks everyone

[Mel-icious]

Yeah, a Boa's bite while painful isn't poisionus. Our neighbor growing up had huge ones, I can't imagine being biten by one. OUCH! :eek:

[andrea]

yeah wasnt nice the new one is about 7 feet long and we still have the babies also

[Mel-icious]

They get almost too big!!! Our neighbor said he had to get rid of them when what they ate turned his stomach. If ya catch my drift. I don't know what you feed yours {and I don't want to :gag: } but he had to feed it some cute little critters. :(

[andrea]

well you do have a choice when they are that big they said to feed it that.... but if you feed them two very large (something gross rats ) you dont have to feed them cute things.... make sense LOL

[Mel-icious]

His were so big he went beyond rats.....:gag:

So he donated it to the local zoo. ;)

[andrea]

oh i did find this off of a website: a picture of what the small ball python snakes look like (we have 2 of them) they can grow to be 5 feet long