EWW Factor!!! Share your stories.

[DeFishy]

Okay, you've heard of Fear Factor, well, now I'm bringing you EWW Factor!!!! Where you tell your most disgusting moments in reptile keeping (Hopefully minus the sad stories.) This is just for fun, and why do I write this thing? Cause of what happened to me this morning.

So i'm sitting in bed eating a delicious breakfast of cereal, unaware of anything around me (Hey, its early, gimme a break), when I suddenly notice an odd flavour/texture in my mouth. I open my mouth and take out to my horror a CRICKET!!! Still alive, half crushed, and then suddenly I notice that my tongue hurts something feirce and I realise it had bitten me!!!

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

I had ice on my tongue for like 30mins, boy did it hurt. Now I understand what chams go through. Lol.

Ok, who is next?

 

[Kent67]

That's pretty gross.

Mine would probably be about 17 years ago when I was working at a reptile shop. I was new there and helping the manager clean out a cage for two adult mangrove monitors. He was holding one of them correctly, with one hand on neck and one on tail base....unfortunately with the animal facing him. He was literally saying, "You have to watch out for these guys, they'll poop..." right as there was a loud "Pfffffttttt-splat!" Remember the projectile vomit scene in The Exorcist? It was much like that! Allllllll over him. And for those who haven't kept monitors.....NOTHING smells worse than monitor poo.....well, except maybe primate poo.

 

[chameleon97]

thats GRROOSS my only gross moment was my frog peed on me which wasnt very gross IMO

 

[reptimom]

My husband used to do alot of on the road sales. He spent the night with his brother one night on one of his overnight trips. His brother has a very friendly dove which they let free roam alot. Well, he free-roamed on my husband's shoulder sometime before he left on his sales route. Sadly, my husband did not realize it, and when he got home that evening, I asked him what was all over the back of his shirt. You can just imagine how he felt knowing that he have been all over South Carolina and Georgia that day with Dove poop all over the back of his shirt. YUCK!

 

[gregdabender]

Mine actully just happen friday.....somehow a dubia got out and made it to our bed......I wont go into what we were doing but yea....the dubia crawled onto my hand and freaked me out. I felt sorry for the guy after smashing him. I have a weird love for my dubias...I almost feel bad feeding them off >.<

 

[honeywoods]

So i'm sitting in bed eating a delicious breakfast of cereal, unaware of anything around me (Hey, its early, gimme a break), when I suddenly notice an odd flavour/texture in my mouth. I open my mouth and take out to my horror a CRICKET!!! Still alive, half crushed, and then suddenly I notice that my tongue hurts something feirce and I realise it had bitten me!!!

Ewwww indeed! Reminds me of the time I was eating a nectarine and a maggot was waving about (oblivious to me but seen by others who froze and didn't tell me in time to stop taking another bite and yes i took the maggot too.

Another time, was eating cereal (old box in work) and was half way through before I noticed the cereral was swarming with weavils......eughhgh!

 

[Syn]

I was sitting down doing some community service for National Junior Honor Society a few years ago, I was cleaning out rabbit cages, decided to sit down, and I feel this spray of wetness just shoot all over me. I look over to see a rabbit's behind pointed right at me, finishing his business. What horror. I couldn't leave for another 30 minutes. I washed off with the hose, and that didn't get it all out of my clothes.

 

[DeFishy]

EWWW to both stories! EWW, EWW, EWW! LOL.