freaking Lil!

Blotch · Postby **Blotch** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:27 pm

Lil the little mongrel just tried to bite me - he was so quick I almost sliced my arm open on the side of the tank. I was feeding him and he snapped - He's sooo quick!

Anyway - sorry for a useless post - just wanted to let yall know. hahaha!

jasjmm27 · Postby **jasjmm27** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:33 pm

I was just saying that "simple" stories like this are great and excellent for new owners to learn from...

Blotch · Postby **Blotch** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:35 pm

yeah - don't sneak up on your skink with food that smells good - otherwise you could get bitten!

lilryry1993 · Postby **lilryry1993** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:37 pm

well thats good info for me just got mine yeterday in wich may sound like common sense to you lol

jasjmm27 · Postby **jasjmm27** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:41 pm

See! That is what I meant! New owners may gain a lot of knowledge from posts like this...just observations and updates...

lilryry1993 · Postby **lilryry1993** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:47 pm

ya lol

Leigh · Postby **Leigh** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 2:31 am

I remember when Blue did an ambush attack from beneath the substrate on me, I had a prawn in my fingers, and he came from nowhere and almost had my thumb hahah.

shingleback aus · Postby **shingleback aus** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 2:38 am

once i was watching tv and hand feeding lizzie well long storie short she bit me and didnt want to let go :lol:

rachel · Postby **rachel** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:41 am

I got bitten in a confusing incident involving banana and fingers :lol:

some got smeared on my fingers and Jak bit them, and perhaps because he could taste the banana he didn't want to let go!

rachel · Postby **rachel** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:43 am

lesson for new keepers : It's fine to hand feed your skinks, in fact its a great way to associate handling with something good...but be careful to only feed pieces of food, and make sure it doesnt smear all over your fingers

Funda · Postby **Funda** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:16 am

Well once i was holding a little piece of banana and Saphia came up to get it.
she got it and dropped it and as i went to pick it up she got my finger and didnt let go :lol:

It hurt but it was cute

f.C

Leigh · Postby **Leigh** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:33 am

When offering banana(by hand), I peel back about two inches and offer the open end whilst holding the peeled back skin,a bit like fencing hahaha

zakkhogan · Postby **zakkhogan** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:50 am

yeah i got bit once, was my own fault, was feeding lynyrd of my finger, he was being really gentle and slowly taking the food with his tongue, then.....

I turned my head to talk to the wife, and that my friends was my finger!

I think he let go to get a "better" grip on that tasty flesh!

Celeste · Postby **Celeste** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:45 am

Ditto with my female brown shingleback -- I was trying to offer her a cricket in my bare fingers. Definitely NOT recommended! She was so enthusiastic in her lunge for the cricket that she got my fingers instead, and it was a pretty serious chomp (and she wouldn't let go)! Bled like the dickens. Definitely MY fault, not hers!

MENTAL NOTE: USE BAMBOO TWEEZERS IN THE FUTURE!!! :-/
(I recommend bamboo, not metal, because they chomp down pretty hard on the tweezers, too, so you wouldn't want them breaking teeth).

-- Celeste

jasjmm27 · Postby **jasjmm27** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:23 am

See all the fun stories that came out of this!

Blotch thought I was joking when I said that "simple" posts like this are very useful to new (and often experienced) bluey owners!

I love to read all these little stories...for one, I have yet to be bitten...but I look forward to it!

lilryry1993 · Postby **lilryry1993** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:26 am

rachel wrote:I got bitten in a confusing incident involving banana and fingers some got smeared on my fingers and Jak bit them, and perhaps because he could taste the banana he didn't want to let go!

my dad when he was a kid he said he was out catching chuckawallas and they dont like to let go either :lol:

NomadOfTheHills · Postby **NomadOfTheHills** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:35 am

Just take the bite like a man Blotch!

nivek5225 · Postby **nivek5225** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:01 am

For those of you that were bitten and your bluey didnt want to let go... This might sound stupid, but how did you get him off? Did you just wait until he let go, or what?

I don't have a bluey yet but always read "if a blue tongued skink bites you, they have a tendency to hold on, and can be pretty painful"... But i have never talked to anyone that this has actually happened to!

So please let me know what happened.

SailleSkinklover · Postby **SailleSkinklover** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:09 am

Chuffers got stoked about his chicken last night and accidentally got my finger. . . I felt how soft the roof of his mouth is. . . He didn't chomp down tho, when he realized he had my finger he let go. I love my sweet gentle Chuffalump! But I certainly respect the power of those Bluey jaws. . .
I can only imagine how hard a thick shovel-headed Shingle can chomp down! :shock:

shingleback aus · Postby **shingleback aus** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:16 am

SailleSkinklover wrote:Chuffers got stoked about his chicken last night and accidentally got my finger. . . I felt how soft the roof of his mouth is. . . He didn't chomp down tho, when he realized he had my finger he let go. I love my sweet gentle Chuffalump! But I certainly respect the power of those Bluey jaws. . .
I can only imagine how hard a thick shovel-headed Shingle can chomp down!

that i do know about somtimes if i have a bit of dinner left on my fingers and im handling lilly she has a bit of a nibble it feels like somone getting a pair of pilers and squeezing them on your finger it hurts bad somtimes it leaves a bruse :lol:

but when she looks at me with those big black shingle eyes all is forgivin

freaking Lil!

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