Woman On Twitter Educates People On Getting Bitten By These 20 Different Animals
Even wondered what it’s like getting bitten by an animal? As you can imagine, there are animals that bite hard to defend themselves or as a form of an attack. However, not all animals are capable of biting with force, and can end up giving more of a suckle than a bite. And then there’s the question of whether they were trying to bite you with malicious intent.
Anywho, Jelena Woehr recently went to Twitter to answer this very question: what’s it like being bitten by various animals?
One thread later, we have a list of 20 animals and tweet-long reviews with ratings detailing the various bites found in the animal kingdom.
Bored Panda invites you to check out Jelena’s reviews of bites in the list below. And while you’re down there, why not vote on the ones you liked the most, and leave us a comment with your own animal bite reviews in the comment section!
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So, Jelena Woehr (pronounced yell in a war), a writer, editor, creative, educator, and businesswoman from Los Angeles, went to Twitter with a thread—a thread that reviews animal bites.
In particular, these are somewhat detailed accounts of how these various animals bite, and how it feels.
Now, we’re not sure whether the author of these tweets has actually done the empirical part of this experiment before writing up the reviews, but whatever the case may be, don’t try this at home!
The list includes a number of domesticated and wild animals: everything from goats to snakes to birds to dogs to different kinds of rodents.
Each review includes a general overview of the bite, its qualities and character, the feeling and other related details.
The reviews also include a rating on a 5-point scale with 0 being a bad and 5—a good rating. In some cases, the “experience” breaks the scale, but in most it stays within the confines of the numeric continuum.
my dad is scared of horses because when he was five or six he saw a lady get bitten really hard by a horse.
Unless it is a baby goat, then it is pretty painful since they have sharp teeth. I speak from experience here.
According to Jelena, among the best bites are those by the parrotlet, the African pygmy hedgehog, the chinchilla, and, of course, the giant squid, which got a million-point rating.
But, there are also bad bites, mostly ones that are anything but pleasant: those by the vicuña (South American camelids reminiscent of llamas), the domestic cat, the black bear hamster, and the Norwegian rat. The vicuña, though cute, got a -5 rating, so there’s that.
I got bit from my friend's pet ferret on my finger, it just has a cut
Yeah...not when they clamp down. Two of my cats got into a fight learly one morning ast year and my groggy ass tried to separate them. Spider, not realizing he grabbed my hand, sank his teeth in. Aside from the extremely deep gashes that took close to a month to completely heal, he also fractured a bone near my wrist. As soon as he realized he had me, he let go and spent the rest of the day following me around. He was very, very sorry.
Aww reminds me of my cat years ago when he was little! He was the sweetest boy never bite or scratch but one day while he was falling he grabbed from my leg and gave me a huge deep scratch that made me scream in pain! He was so scared he ran away and then came back looking so worried with his big eyes that i couldn't be mad at him at all😥😥 i really miss him
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Always, always, always go to the hospital if a cat bite breaks the skin. Most likely you'll need I.V. antibiotics & possibly surgery depending on how deep the bite is. Also, if you're scratched & bleeding you should bleed it if you can, wash w/warm water & soap, then apply neosporin.
Jepp - got bitten by my own cat end of last year and ended up spending 10 days in a hospital including an operation and weeks of antibiotics...cat bites are not fun!!
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I tried to intervene when a friends cat was trying to kill the neighbours dog. Kitty (yes, she really was called Kitty) sank her teeth and claws into my right arm as I bent down to pick her up. About 10 minutes later the pain was incredible and my arm ballooned. Two weeks of antibiotics.
Trying to ki-- how small that dog was? Was it a chihuahua?
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Seriously, I'm pretty much immune to cat bites. They don't bother me at all lol
I seriously doubt that. They must have not been very hard. My cat will bite me like a puppy and biting someone who's playing with it. He knows not to break my skin and I always keep his claws clipped.
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My cat bit me like 3 minutes ago...I was disturbing her, so she scolded me like a kitten. However, the bite hurt, so I let her no that it was too much (i said ow, and put my finger between her molars rather than fangs, fyi, they hate that, but it does no harm, and you will not get a serious bite)
wife had to have surgery after breaking up a cat fight. wounds can be very nasty
My cats only bites me sometimes and that’s when I annoy her but she did swat at my leg once I believe its because she loved me and didn’t want me to leave but maybe I was wrong
I was bitten by a cat and my hand swelled and hurt like a son of a gun. Needed antibiotics shots and was warned surgery might be necessary but it turned out okay. Didn’t know it could get that bad that fast..
Yep, it can go from bleeding gash to hooked up to intravenous amtibiotics in less than a day. Did for me, still love cats.
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I was bitten by a cat when I was five, still love them, but I’m kinda cautious around them.
It's all part of the charm of having a feline overlord - and it reminds you of your place.
My poor cat is a blind little sausage and needed washing after a toilet related accident... He did not like bath and I learnt my lesson with a deep bite (the only time he's ever bitten me!). My hand ballooned to twice it's size, but it went down after a couple of days. He did leave a bruise too. I looked up after that it's actually quite dangerous to have a true cat bite, so I think I had a lucky escape. :)
Ugh. One of the worst bites (and subsequent infections) I’ve ever gotten came from a cat. Never really know how much you use your thumb until you can’t. 😩
When I visited my vet once, she had a finger that was completely black and blue, and swollen bigger than a sausage. A cat had managed to bite into the finger's joint capsule, leading to very nasty infection.
I’ve seen a few people be deeply bitten by cats so you have to be careful when they’re agitated or scared
a real skin breaking cat bite really isnt fun. I once got seriously bitten by my cat at the vet during a painful examination, had a swollen arm for 3 weeks, couldnt use my hand because of the swelling and had to take antibiotics for 3 weeks...
When my kittens were little, it looked like tiny little vampires had been at work on my arm.
Though the thread received a modest amount of attention from the internet, just a bit over 13,000 likes with nearly 4,500 retweets, many were still engaged sharing their own thoughts on bites.
The commenters effectively said to avoid bites from animals like golden Syrian hamsters, geese, and Maine coons.
However, not all are bad. Some vouched for pigeons, gerbils, grasshoppers, and many other very tame animals as having either ineffective and/or amusing bites.
You can find out more in Jelena's Twitter thread, but before you tell us your thoughts on this. Care to share your knowledge—or better yet, reviews—on bites? Let us know in the comment section below!
I got bit by a water snake when I was 11 after I tried to pick it up to move it out of the road. I couldn’t pull back because I’d pull out the teeth, so I just had to stand there and let it bite me. Ungrateful little b*st*rd shat all over me too. 1/5 stars, this snake is rude and ungrateful to people saving their life.
Got back to its den and regaled its snake friends with tales of “Big Hands”
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I still have a scar from being bitten by an angry rabbit at about age 12. Do not recommend.
I got bitten by a seagull once. Their beaks are pretty sharp!
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I would love to do an Australian equivalent ...the problem being ....the first animal that bites you will probably kill you.
Except, apparently, the building-sized spiders
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The worst animals that I have seen for the bite are long tail macaques (macaques in general but this ones were feisty). Not only they have jaws strong enough to break Kongs (that survive pitbulls) (with the help of their hands of course). They can bite through Kevlar! The catching gloves that we had were made out of that material and they could still hurt you through it. (We only used them if the animals were in danger or very sick and needed to be taken quickly, if not we used transport cages of course)
Guinea pig bites are fairly low down the scale, depending on the type. Nibbly bites are cute; fear bites tend to be quick, deeper and more painful. They're still nothing compared to angry rabbit bites, which suck.
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Call me crazy, but I was bitten by a rattlesnake, then 2 months later, a viper. Only complaints I had was my arm swelled up and anti venom injections, but no pain at all.
some quirky women like to go to parties wearing earrings that are actually green geckos biting their earlobes ... (only in Texas) gecko-6081...071367.jpg 
you will not feel the blue-ringed octopus's bite, it is so small. The main symptom is death within 30 minutes without the antidote. blueringed...a1e21a.jpg 
The exact moment I got bitten by a baby wombat. 149635_101...204859.jpg 
I got bit by a water snake when I was 11 after I tried to pick it up to move it out of the road. I couldn’t pull back because I’d pull out the teeth, so I just had to stand there and let it bite me. Ungrateful little b*st*rd shat all over me too. 1/5 stars, this snake is rude and ungrateful to people saving their life.
Got back to its den and regaled its snake friends with tales of “Big Hands”
Load More Replies... I still have a scar from being bitten by an angry rabbit at about age 12. Do not recommend.
I got bitten by a seagull once. Their beaks are pretty sharp!
Load More Replies... I would love to do an Australian equivalent ...the problem being ....the first animal that bites you will probably kill you.
Except, apparently, the building-sized spiders
Load More Replies... The worst animals that I have seen for the bite are long tail macaques (macaques in general but this ones were feisty). Not only they have jaws strong enough to break Kongs (that survive pitbulls) (with the help of their hands of course). They can bite through Kevlar! The catching gloves that we had were made out of that material and they could still hurt you through it. (We only used them if the animals were in danger or very sick and needed to be taken quickly, if not we used transport cages of course)
Guinea pig bites are fairly low down the scale, depending on the type. Nibbly bites are cute; fear bites tend to be quick, deeper and more painful. They're still nothing compared to angry rabbit bites, which suck.
Load More Replies... Call me crazy, but I was bitten by a rattlesnake, then 2 months later, a viper. Only complaints I had was my arm swelled up and anti venom injections, but no pain at all.
some quirky women like to go to parties wearing earrings that are actually green geckos biting their earlobes ... (only in Texas) gecko-6081...071367.jpg
you will not feel the blue-ringed octopus's bite, it is so small. The main symptom is death within 30 minutes without the antidote. blueringed...a1e21a.jpg
The exact moment I got bitten by a baby wombat. 149635_101...204859.jpg
