your funnys or close calls

[Savannah]

So striped marsh's reptile thread got me to thinking about the experineces i've heard and experienced from/with friends and family.
So i was wondering what are your funny experiences or close calls with your reptiles?

On my end i had a friend who kept garner snakes her cat would bring into the house. She wean them back to health and let them go. Well one kept comeing back so she decided to keep it. One day the garner had got out of the tank and she found it had decided to take a nap with her step-mom. lol mom wasnt to happy.

Another a friend of mine her snake has escaped and they couldn't find it for days. then one day they found the poor thing was stuck behind the dryer. He's is fine now.

I was walking on a hike with my grandma and a she hates snakes and spider...creepy crawlies. well on the path a garner slithered across the path and i dont think i have ever seen my grandma jump and wiggle like she did. lol she jumped up and wiggled like people will when they are grossed out.

So what your experiences??

[poison]

ive had to many funny moments with reptiles but one of the funniest ones is when a garder snake musked in my mouth. wasnt that funny to me but to the people around it was lol.

[Striped marsh]

This is a good idea . i have a funny thing at the moment actually, i usually just drop the crickets in for my cunninghams and they have now figured out theat my hand means food so whenever i put my hand in they try to bite me(and have succeeded on the odd occasions.) i have also been bitten by my mates full grown Jungle python i won't touch that snake again haha

[Savannah]

i bet that had to taste fantastic! LOL

haha nice. now you'll need armor when you feed them. that bite wouldve hurt.
I've never been bit by a snake. ive been grabbed by a crab though lol at the beach and i was taking pictures cuase i love photography. well they had sand crabs there. I got my toe grabbed. it was to small to do anything but it caught me off guard. haha
In fifth my teacher and our class raised ducks and crawdads. well one day she was showing us the proper way to pet a craw dad....haha well she dicided to pet the mean, grumpy male. he reached back and clipped her finger and held on for five minutes. she couldn't get it off. lol

[Psychotic]

When I first got my kingsnake Jormungandr, he was not a very nice snake. He used to strike at you when you walk past his cage. He would come flying out when you opened his cage with mouth wide open. He was a total biter! One day when I was holding him, he must have been hungry. He got a hold on my pinky finger and proceeded to swallow it! He got all the way down to where the finger connects to the hand and I could not get him to let go. I tried putting his head under cold water. I tried the mouth wash trick. I even tried smacking the end of his nose with a pen. All to no avail! He would not let go. I didn't want to hurt him and just yank him off. You can rip their teeth out or even break their jaw doing that. So after my last try of trying to pry his jaws open with no success I ran the sink full of luke warm water and stuck him underneath. I figured he would have to let go in order to breath! He did finally let go to come to the surface and breath. But boy did it take forever! Snakes can hold their breath for a really long time!

I'm glade to say that after a year of handling him even while being bitten that he is used to it and no longer bites. He has turned into a pretty calm snake. I've warned everyone he has gone off to do a breeding loan with about his past of being a biter and they just can't believe that sweet little snake was like that lol!

[Savannah]

oh man. lol your pinky ok? guess he really liked how you tasted to hold so long huh.