Another question? If a Garter bites...

[Spartikus]

Thank you for all the info You have all been really helpful.

[adamanteus]

Honestly, I can't believe we're really debating the degree of danger from a Garter Snake bite! It's utter nonsense, and splitting hairs. So Garters posses a Duvernoys' gland....I posses an appendix, but it serves no useful purpose.

[Stefan-A]

Somebody said the term "Duvernoy's gland" is obsolete?

[RZL36]

I've read that too. Hot keepers just use venom glands now.

[drache]

well, the NYC laws use the term
(watch it - garters will be next on the list of snakes deemed too dangerous . . . )
I think the dangers from either a garter bite or a bite from a hognose snake are practically non-existing
but you do have to take into account persons with an experimental mind-set
every account that I have read, when a person needed care after a garter or hognose bite, it involved prolonged chewing
so I just consider it a matter of caution to inform people
all of my garter bites were strictly accidental and there was never any chewing, or hanging on involved
I've never noticed any itching or irritation
I've never gotten bit by my hognose

[drache]

Mikhaila is far more wary of the gerbils than the snakes
those little fur balls have wicked teeth

[Stefan-A]

Rodents (hamsters in my case) have drawn more blood from me than all other animals put together. With the possible exception of pike (Esox lucius).

[Lori P]

It was a horse who drew the most blood from me, even more than past dog bites... she slammed her head down and bit me on top of my head. Gave me a concussion and lots of blood loss... you know how head wounds are. Lesson learned: don't lean under a blind horse who is eating and might mistake you for a goat grabbing for her food. LOL

[RZL36]

Rodents are the worse. They bite and scratch. I would rather be bit by the biggest garter snake than any rat or mouse.

[drache]

didn't we have "worst bite" thread somewhere before?
this seems so familiar somehow