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.

[Psychotic]

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

My finger was perfectly fine except for the little teeth marks. They went away within a couple of days lol.

[Savannah]

thats good. lol

[Gnag the nameless]

Well, you might consider this a close call. Anyways, one day, I was feeding my former bullfroglet, Gnag [She's a juvenile now] a cricket. I was just placing it down onto a water reed, but I suppose Gnag must've been hungry, because the second I let it go, Gnag leapt, ate the cricket, and part of my finger too. She let go instantly, but, wow, a bite from even a bullfroglet hurts! I had a red mark there for a couple of days!

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

Recently I have been trying to get my wife acclimated to taking care of the
terrible trio. Brownie , Bubba , Buster my three whites tree frogs.

Since Brownie is the biggest and the most aggressive the only way
the others can get food is one of two ways.
Either putting one frog at a time in a feeding box or tong feeding
and even tong feeding is a challenge since Brownie will follow the tongs
and even go after fingers. ( I think it is funny and love that she is so active.)

Well my wife will not tong feed.
so she would have to get use to handing the frogs.
So I had her put on gloves and wet them in the water bowl.
I placed the most laid back frog of the bunch (Bubba) in her hands
an he promptly projectile peed on her shirt.
She let out a scream and slowly handed me Bubba.
I am so proud of her that she didn't throw or drop bubba.
I couldn't help but laugh so hard that I was getting cramps.
Needless to say she was really upset to the point of tears.

I would give a left part of my male parts to have a video of that.

[Savannah]

Well, you might consider this a close call. Anyways, one day, I was feeding my former bullfroglet, Gnag [She's a juvenile now] a cricket. I was just placing it down onto a water reed, but I suppose Gnag must've been hungry, because the second I let it go, Gnag leapt, ate the cricket, and part of my finger too. She let go instantly, but, wow, a bite from even a bullfroglet hurts! I had a red mark there for a couple of days!

i've heard their bites are bit mean. at least he was small.

[Savannah]

Recently I have been trying to get my wife acclimated to taking care of the
terrible trio. Brownie , Bubba , Buster my three whites tree frogs.

Since Brownie is the biggest and the most aggressive the only way
the others can get food is one of two ways.
Either putting one frog at a time in a feeding box or tong feeding
and even tong feeding is a challenge since Brownie will follow the tongs
and even go after fingers. ( I think it is funny and love that she is so active.)

Well my wife will not tong feed.
so she would have to get use to handing the frogs.
So I had her put on gloves and wet them in the water bowl.
I placed the most laid back frog of the bunch (Bubba) in her hands
an he promptly projectile peed on her shirt.
She let out a scream and slowly handed me Bubba.
I am so proud of her that she didn't throw or drop bubba.
I couldn't help but laugh so hard that I was getting cramps.
Needless to say she was really upset to the point of tears.

I would give a left part of my male parts to have a video of that.

haha! that is funny! would've loved a video to.thanks for sharing.
white tree frogs terrible trio?? lol i could see pacmans. i wouldn't have thought they were WTF.

[Striped marsh]

I would consider this a close call, just the other day I was getting the Angus bull out of the yard when I noticed he was a bit agitated something was off, before I knew it he was coming at me, but I managed to jump out of the way it surprisingly was pretty fun gets the adrenaline pumping but I wouldn't try him out again haha

[Savannah]

haha oh wow. yea i bet that got the heart racing.

[KrTreefrog2]

I have several reptiles that I breed Blaptica Dubia roaches for as part of their diets, and any time I have friends over, they want to watch my African Bullfrog and Panther Chameleon eat a few of them. They especially enjoy hand feeding the chameleon and watching his long tongue shoot out and snatch a roach right out of their fingers. One day, one of my best friends brought her husband over to see the show. To give you an idea, this guy is in the military, stands at 5'11, is thickly muscled, and has the overall "military look." I show him the chameleon's cage, pick a roach out of his feed cup, and offer it to the chameleon, who greedily gobbles it down. Thinking that was pretty cool, the guy wants to try it himself. I let him, so he reaches into the cage, gets a roach, but before he offers it to the chameleon, he pulls it back close to his face to look at it first and asks, "So what kind of bug is this?" Now, for those of you who have never seen a Blaptica Dubia roach before like this guy, the young ones look like large sow or pill bugs. I tell him, "It's a Blaptica Dubia, or Guyana Orange Spotted Roach." And I am telling you, when he heard "roach" this big tough military man flipped out. His eyes went wide, his face went pale, he flung the bug away like it had suddenly turned into a viper, and jumped back nearly six feet, knocking into his wife in the process, and proceeded to stamp around while frantically brushing at his clothes and hair, all the while yelling, "Oh God, get it off! GET IT OFF!!" And as if that wasn't funny enough, the chameleon, who had been enviously eyeing the roach this whole time and probably wondering what was taking so long for him to be given his treat, finally had his patience rewarded. Because when the guy flung the roach away, it landed right within tongue-shot. So the chameleon was munching away happily while the big bad tough guy was still having a hissy fit in the corner. We did eventually get him calmed down after much assurance that there wasn't anything on him, but he wouldn't venture near the cage the rest of the night, and a few times I caught him shuddering and brushing the back of his neck to be sure nothing was going to crawl down his collar. ^^

[Striped marsh]

I have several reptiles that I breed Blaptica Dubia roaches for as part of their diets, and any time I have friends over, they want to watch my African Bullfrog and Panther Chameleon eat a few of them. They especially enjoy hand feeding the chameleon and watching his long tongue shoot out and snatch a roach right out of their fingers. One day, one of my best friends brought her husband over to see the show. To give you an idea, this guy is in the military, stands at 5'11, is thickly muscled, and has the overall "military look." I show him the chameleon's cage, pick a roach out of his feed cup, and offer it to the chameleon, who greedily gobbles it down. Thinking that was pretty cool, the guy wants to try it himself. I let him, so he reaches into the cage, gets a roach, but before he offers it to the chameleon, he pulls it back close to his face to look at it first and asks, "So what kind of bug is this?" Now, for those of you who have never seen a Blaptica Dubia roach before like this guy, the young ones look like large sow or pill bugs. I tell him, "It's a Blaptica Dubia, or Guyana Orange Spotted Roach." And I am telling you, when he heard "roach" this big tough military man flipped out. His eyes went wide, his face went pale, he flung the bug away like it had suddenly turned into a viper, and jumped back nearly six feet, knocking into his wife in the process, and proceeded to stamp around while frantically brushing at his clothes and hair, all the while yelling, "Oh God, get it off! GET IT OFF!!" And as if that wasn't funny enough, the chameleon, who had been enviously eyeing the roach this whole time and probably wondering what was taking so long for him to be given his treat, finally had his patience rewarded. Because when the guy flung the roach away, it landed right within tongue-shot. So the chameleon was munching away happily while the big bad tough guy was still having a hissy fit in the corner. We did eventually get him calmed down after much assurance that there wasn't anything on him, but he wouldn't venture near the cage the rest of the night, and a few times I caught him shuddering and brushing the back of his neck to be sure nothing was going to crawl down his collar. ^^

That was gold haha