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Yeah yeah, I still gotta do my con report.
But I have a cooler story.
I had a reptile show today at work, and I went to get my giant snake. We have two large burmese's Andre and Ginger. Their cage has two doors you can open in order to retriew them. I open the first one and see one snake curled up, and one snake sprawled out. Now, Andre is bigger then Ginger, but because they're both albino, I can't tell which one is which unless they're compaired by size.
I figure the easiest thing to do is to check for spurs. (Andre's are huge) and I put my hand on Andre.
I general EVERY time I pick up a snake, I WATCH THEIR HEAD, but I was retarded and figured I didn't need to if I was just touching him, and this was a very stupid mistake because I felt a horrible pain in my right arm and when I looked down, Andre was attached to it.
It didn't hurt as bad as I thought getting bitten by a snake would, but there was an awful moment of panic where I realized that he was stuck to my arm and wasn't going to let go.
My next thought was that if I paniced and pulled him off, I'd end up missing a chunk of flesh and/or 20 snake teeth in my arm.
So I took my free hand and put it next to his mouth where his jaw was and a gave it a squeeze. And low and behold he opened his mouth and I wiggled a bit and very slowly pulled my arm out of his snake jaws.
Then I put him down, closed the door and went to go get Shannon.
My arm was bleeding like crazy (all over her floor. Yay!), so Shannon dressed it for me, and I felt like a tool 'cause I've been doing this job for four years and never ONCE been bitten by a snake, let alone the biggest snake we have.
I took the gaze off when I got home tonight to look at it, but it's not as exciting as I'd hoped for.
None the less, I took photos for all my facebook friends!
So not as cool looking when blood was spewing from it. Snakes have tiny needle teeth, so each bump you see in a tooth mark.
But I have a cooler story.
I had a reptile show today at work, and I went to get my giant snake. We have two large burmese's Andre and Ginger. Their cage has two doors you can open in order to retriew them. I open the first one and see one snake curled up, and one snake sprawled out. Now, Andre is bigger then Ginger, but because they're both albino, I can't tell which one is which unless they're compaired by size.
I figure the easiest thing to do is to check for spurs. (Andre's are huge) and I put my hand on Andre.
I general EVERY time I pick up a snake, I WATCH THEIR HEAD, but I was retarded and figured I didn't need to if I was just touching him, and this was a very stupid mistake because I felt a horrible pain in my right arm and when I looked down, Andre was attached to it.
It didn't hurt as bad as I thought getting bitten by a snake would, but there was an awful moment of panic where I realized that he was stuck to my arm and wasn't going to let go.
My next thought was that if I paniced and pulled him off, I'd end up missing a chunk of flesh and/or 20 snake teeth in my arm.
So I took my free hand and put it next to his mouth where his jaw was and a gave it a squeeze. And low and behold he opened his mouth and I wiggled a bit and very slowly pulled my arm out of his snake jaws.
Then I put him down, closed the door and went to go get Shannon.
My arm was bleeding like crazy (all over her floor. Yay!), so Shannon dressed it for me, and I felt like a tool 'cause I've been doing this job for four years and never ONCE been bitten by a snake, let alone the biggest snake we have.
I took the gaze off when I got home tonight to look at it, but it's not as exciting as I'd hoped for.
None the less, I took photos for all my facebook friends!
So not as cool looking when blood was spewing from it. Snakes have tiny needle teeth, so each bump you see in a tooth mark.