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[Greg'sGarters]

My worst non-venomous bite was the first day I started working at the pet store I used to work at. A blue spot timor monitor got my first finger and tore it. My manager told me not to panic if I got bit by anything. So I had blood RUSHING down my hand, as I walked to the counter and asked for a bandaid. The worst bite I ever got was from my copperhead. I milked him for his venom, I was wearing thick gloves so I couldn't feel anything. As I looked in the jar, he slithered a bit of my hand just enough to turn around and nail me in the thumb. Best way to describe it is being injected with a cool, numbing liquid that heats up until it feels like hot burning magma in my skin. Luckily it only left a brown dot on my thumb (where the fang hit [he was shedding a fang so he nailed me with one and only pricked me with the other as it wasn't fully out yet]) and I didn't go to the hospital.

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

My worst non-venomous bite was the first day I started working at the pet store I used to work at. A blue spot timor monitor got my first finger and tore it. My manager told me not to panic if I got bit by anything. So I had blood RUSHING down my hand, as I walked to the counter and asked for a bandaid. The worst bite I ever got was from my copperhead. I milked him for his venom, I was wearing thick gloves so I couldn't feel anything. As I looked in the jar, he slithered a bit of my hand just enough to turn around and nail me in the thumb. Best way to describe it is being injected with a cool, numbing liquid that heats up until it feels like hot burning magma in my skin. Luckily it only left a brown dot on my thumb (where the fang hit [he was shedding a fang so he nailed me with one and only pricked me with the other as it wasn't fully out yet]) and I didn't go to the hospital.

you are extremely lucky... likely you took a dry bite due to having just milked the snake, or the snake chose to give you a dry bite, and the residual amounts of venom left from the milking likely caused that brown dot! A lot of people who get hit by a copper lose the digit!

[Greg'sGarters]

you are extremely lucky... likely you took a dry bite due to having just milked the snake, or the snake chose to give you a dry bite, and the residual amounts of venom left from the milking likely caused that brown dot! A lot of people who get hit by a copper lose the digit!

It was DEFINITELY not a dry bite but maybe reduced venom. I got dry bite by a copper when I was 5. My friend tried to catch it, and stepped on it's tail and it turned around and hit me in the leg. No pain, no hospital, no discoloration. I don't even think it took out it's fangs.