Hallie
SNOW!!!!
Like the title says, my normally docile Izzy was in a really bad mood the other day (I think this was the Thursday before Thanksgiving). A REALLY bad mood...
I went to feed her and she struck at her rat, but changed trajectory in mid-strike and came after my hand. The teeth weren't really painful (this isn't my first boa bite), but she hits like a freight train!! Holy crap!!! I ended up with big bruises at both bite sites...the upper jaw bite site was worse (the one by my pointer finger) than where her lower jaw grabbed on...unfortunately I'm left handed and had to work the next day, and my pen was sitting right where I was bruised...it was a long day...
This is the bite about 20 minutes later after it finally stopped bleeding:
It was pretty painful to move my pointer finger...haha.
And Izzy after...she was so ticked off that she refused to eat until the next morning (I removed her rat and fed her before I left for work the next day). She was in her tub hissing for at least 2 hours after the bite, even though I was on the other side of the room. :laugh: Crazy snake...
Apparently she thought she was a cobra:
The red eye makes her look even more ticked off and evil:
Back in her tub after playing 'cobra':
And no, no alcohol was taken internally post-bite. This happened around 2:30am after feeding all the other snakes (you can see some of the tubs still stacked on the floor behind her) and I had to be at work at 8.
I went to feed her and she struck at her rat, but changed trajectory in mid-strike and came after my hand. The teeth weren't really painful (this isn't my first boa bite), but she hits like a freight train!! Holy crap!!! I ended up with big bruises at both bite sites...the upper jaw bite site was worse (the one by my pointer finger) than where her lower jaw grabbed on...unfortunately I'm left handed and had to work the next day, and my pen was sitting right where I was bruised...it was a long day...
This is the bite about 20 minutes later after it finally stopped bleeding:
It was pretty painful to move my pointer finger...haha.
And Izzy after...she was so ticked off that she refused to eat until the next morning (I removed her rat and fed her before I left for work the next day). She was in her tub hissing for at least 2 hours after the bite, even though I was on the other side of the room. :laugh: Crazy snake...
Apparently she thought she was a cobra:
The red eye makes her look even more ticked off and evil:
Back in her tub after playing 'cobra':
And no, no alcohol was taken internally post-bite. This happened around 2:30am after feeding all the other snakes (you can see some of the tubs still stacked on the floor behind her) and I had to be at work at 8.