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Reminds me of the time I let a girlfriend hold a Boa Constrictor of mine many years ago, and told her as I handed it to her....."don't worry, it won't bite, I promise".................sniff-sniff, flick-flick,...........CHOMP!!!

OOPS!, guess I was wrong, sorry!

~Doug
Major embarrassment on TV

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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

My argentine did that to my wife too...thank God yoda missed.

But anyway, a 4 ft. Olive Python bites and chews on his neck just seconds after he tells everyone on live TV that "it won't bite him, because he doesn't want to eat him, or he doesn't pose a perceived threat to the snake"..LOL!

How wrong this assumption can be sometimes, I guess my 8 ft Macklot's Python I had years ago didn't know about this little fact either..HAHAHAAA!

She was great once out of her cage via a big snake hook, but before she was out of the cage, look out bro!, if you where EVER in close proximity, you were looked at as fair prey by her, and it happened several times in the past.....MAN did she hurt too!

Countless snakes have gone to eat me in the past, as I'm sure many of you have also experienced before..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

...ouch!!! I had a nice pair of those a while back. The male was puppy dog tame. The female was...not. She loved to show me those long, backwards-curved teeth and embed them into my palm, wrist, finger, forearm - whatever she could get. So much so that I started using welding gloves just to change her water bowl!

The only experience I have that's similar is when my friend and I were doing a presentation for a Boy Scout Troop. He made a big commotion about the next snake he was going to bring out, a 6 foot Texas Indigo, getting the kids all riled up and excited to see her. He also told them not to worry, that she was tame as a kitten. When I opened the snake bag, she jumped out like greased lightning, mouth gaping, straight towards my face. She missed me by millimeters and I was able to grab the back of her head as she was coming for another strike. She then proceeded to cover me in that famous Drymarchon musk/poop spread. All the kids were laughing. My wife was laughing. My friends were laughing. Even the horrified mothers in the back of the room were laughing. I was not.
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Diego

SWCHR

HAHAHAHAAA!!, that is funny stuff man!, especially right after the tame as a kitten" speech!..LOL!

My most recent one was a large female brooksi after cleaning OTHER snake cages, I always make a mental note to thoroughly wash the other snake scent off my hands real well before messing with any of the kings. Well, this time I forgot, and while I was holding the docile girl in one hand to do her cage too, she proceeded to eat, constrict, chew and twist her jaws on the hand I was holding her in..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

I had a good sized desert king named "Ziggy" as she had a zig zag down a good part of her back. She was three feet at only about four months old. Never ,missed a meal and also ate what any other snake did not want.
My friend I got her from did not believe me when I told him how big she had gotten so fast until I showed him.
Anyway I always wash my hands before feeding other species especially kings as they eat other snakes and I don't want to stick my food scented hands down into a snake box with a hungry snake. Also to cut down on any cross contamination.
Anyway one day I feed the corns and had one around my neck for a while so I could clean his box a little. I washed my hands and then started feeding the getula. I got Ziggy out no problem as she was a good girl just always a hungry one. Without thinking I put her ........................you guest it! around my neck! She smelled corn snake and chomped down on the tender side skin of my neck! I murmured a muffled yelp as I was trying not to yell out. I had tears in my eyes, uh no they were just watery thats all. Ziggy preceded to roll with the mouth full of my neck! I finally got her off of my neck, but had what looked like a large hickey! I had to explain for what seamed like an eternity to all that saw the hickey and asked who did it that it was one of my snakes. That was possibly the most I got laughed at in all of my life!
So the next time someone reminds you to wash your hands tell them, "And your neck too"!
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Noah was the first snake collector. ~Eric~

Good one!..LOL!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Looks like Kingsnake.com is censoring your link. Could you email it to me. I would love to see it. Altough Steve is my here I would love to see his mistake.

Marcel

>>Reminds me of the time I let a girlfriend hold a Boa Constrictor of mine many years ago, and told her as I handed it to her....."don't worry, it won't bite, I promise".................sniff-sniff, flick-flick,...........CHOMP!!!
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>>OOPS!, guess I was wrong, sorry!
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>> ~Doug
>>Major embarrassment on TV
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>>"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"
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>>my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com
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Marcel Poots (Holland)
'Where is your crown King Nothing?' James Hettfield
The ultimate cornpredictor

Should read HERO instead of HERE.

>>Looks like Kingsnake.com is censoring your link. Could you email it to me. I would love to see it. Altough Steve is my here I would love to see his mistake.
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>>Marcel
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>>>>Reminds me of the time I let a girlfriend hold a Boa Constrictor of mine many years ago, and told her as I handed it to her....."don't worry, it won't bite, I promise".................sniff-sniff, flick-flick,...........CHOMP!!!
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>>>>OOPS!, guess I was wrong, sorry!
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>>>> ~Doug
>>>>Major embarrassment on TV
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>>>>"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"
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>>>>my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com
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>>Marcel Poots (Holland)
>>'Where is your crown King Nothing?' James Hettfield
>>The ultimate cornpredictor
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Marcel Poots (Holland)
'Where is your crown King Nothing?' James Hettfield
The ultimate cornpredictor