I’ve really only been tagged by corn snakes.
As a teenager, I had a pair of corns. I dropped the rubber wedge and scrabbling to retrieve it, the corn felt threatened and warned me with the vibrating tail, which I did not take heed, so he snapped at me. Tiny bit of blood, but my involuntary reaction was like I’d been envenomated. 😂🤣😂🤫
Moving on twenty ish years and I got a rescue male corn snake in 2019. In his enthusiasm to feed, twice he has missed the meal and caught my finger, so I do now use longer tongs 😊
He is not aggressive at all, he just gets a bit excited around food.
The worst tagging was on my Adam’s apple. He’d splashed water onto the substrate, which started to mould, so I picked him up, hung him round my neck whilst I changed the substrate.
I wish I could have calmly disengaged him, but when he slowly attempted to mouth and engulf me from the neck, I reacted (shock/revulsion?) and pulled him off.
Perhaps this hurt him a lot, as numerous teeth were left in my skin ☹🤭
We both looked a bit sheepish 😳
He is a bit more careful now, and doesn’t seem to hold a grunge.
He is the one snake in my collection that I let free roam. He often watches me during husbandry. Couple of times a week, I open the glass doors, and he nearly always comes out to explore.
I now leave a snake hook on the stair, to alert son and wife that Noodle is free roaming in the attic bedroom. It is a real pleasure watching him.
