Depending on what your expecting...prepare to be disappointed. I have been bitten at several times by Patchnose with no effect. Can you say micro dose?

However....Back in the late seventies a shop owner asked me to examine a harmless watersnake from Asia. He had found the identity in Larousse's encyclopedia of Animals where it was listed as Natrix subminiatus (Red Necked Keelback).

The snake chewed on my wrist when I was examining it. I had no ill effects. Less than two weeks later a boy in California almost died of a bite from the same species. I beleave my escape from ill effects had more to do with the fact that the two foot snake could not open it's mouth wide enough on my wrist to effectivly envenomate me.

Somehow the literature in the hobby (not just Larousse) had failed to discover that this snake was quite potently venomed and not a Natrix, but instead was a rearfanged species.

It was promptly reclassified under Rhabdophis.

The moral...make sure you know what's biting you.

Frank
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