RAPICCA Animal Handling Gloves Bite Proof Double Leather Reinforced Padding Dog,Cat Scratch,Bird Handling Falconry Gloves Grabbing Reptile Squirrel Snake Bite 16in Grey-Black

I originally bought a pair in 2019 and am buying a second pair now in 2025, due to my husband unfortunately losing the first pair (Its probably around here somewhere). We absolutely love these gloves for yard work. We live in an area in the PNW that has a green belt behind our house that isnt maintained, so we get all of the weeds invading our yard. Especially sticker bushes or blackberry bushes with thick vines, some thicker than a quarter. These gloves are excellent at protecting our hands from getting those nasty thorns in our hands when we're physically yanking these blackberry bushes and other thorny bushes out of the ground. I have large hands for a female and these gloves are a little big on me, but not unusable. I usually wear a mens Large in gloves. I can grip things well with these gloves and they are flexible in the hands enough to get the job done. We have yet to have any punctures from those thick thorns or thorny bushes, hence me ordering a 2nd pair 6 years later. I need them for some yard work right now and my pair from 6 years ago is MIA. They work great and I'd recommend these to anyone who is using them for yard work, totally worth the money and they last - good quality gloves.

Still using these two years later they have held up great!

I bought these 16” animal handling gloves to use in my home dog boarding / daycare business. Thankfully I haven’t had to use them yet, but I like having them ‘just in case’. I think luck favors the prepared. I ordered a few different animal handling gloves and settled on these. I like the thickness of the leather and the placement of the extra layers of leather. For a female 5’5” and 125 lbs, these fit quite big. However they are comfortable and stay on. I feel protected in them. Some other ones I ordered that were smaller for my hands didn’t have as thick of leather or the extra layers of leather at as many places or good places. I would never be able to do fine work with my fingers in these as they are bulky. However I would be able to grab or pick up a small dog or guarded object with them. I think they would protect from a bite from a small dog, medium dog, and warning nips from a large dog. However the bite force of a medium or large dog that means business would still crush your hands, just maybe not be able to rip you open due to the thick leather. I would guarantee that they would hold up to small animals like cats, hamsters, squirrels, birds, etc. Hopefully I NEVER need to test a snake bite on them!!! They appear well made with the stitching with thick but slightly flexible leather. The value is good as I believe they will last many many years used for various tasks like animal handling, grilling, and forging … probably my son will eventually steal them to forge with once he discovers them.

Worked great for a biting dog. Allowed the owners to work with him and not worry about getting bitten.

These gloves provide very good coverage, fit well, and I was able to comfortably use these for pruning saguaro and Peruvian apple cacti. The most protected spots are on the fingers and palms, and spines can get through the seams if you're not careful.

If our dog could write a review for this, he would. Our dog is a mix of two working breeds, so he can be pretty mouthy. I bought these for my husband kind of as a joke, because when he plays with our dog, our dog likes to "bite" on his hands. Our dog knows to be gentle, but with these gloves I no longer hear my husband constantly saying "ouch" all the time. We've only had these for a week and already our dog will grab a glove when he thinks it's time to play, and will only bite when my husband is wearing the gloves and it's play time, and stops when my husband says it's time to be done.

Are you here for thorns? Well this is the review for you. As you probably already know all those 'thorn proof' gardening gloves are crap! Little wimpy thorns are OK but anything with real thorns still has to be carefully picked. If you just grab it they pierce right thru. Well these babies are your solution. I have been feeding branches thru my little wood chipper from my Mexican Palo Verde and finally and not stabbing myself every third branch. The long sleeves of the glove even protect me from when branches lash around as they get grounded. There are some drawbacks. These huge gloves are bulky so any fine work like weeding or pruning with small tools is out. You have to carry another set of gloves and switch back and forth. However - you there is no other option for true thorn protection.

These gloves are decent quality for the price but calling these 'Bite Proof' might cost someone some serious injuries. These are Bite Resistant gloves at best. I had originally gotten these as I was helping to train and rehabilitate a rather large Great Dane that had been underfeed and was reactive around food. The Dane had bite me once already over a treat I was giving to another dog and tore open my finger. However this Dane basically nipped me as there was no other damage like crushing or such done which if the dog wanted to he could of taken off my finger... (Most of the damage was a combination of him nipping and me pulling my hand back and catching on his teeth.) So anyways I decided I wasn't going to risk that again and bought these gloves. Luckily for the most part the Dane rapidly settled and before the gloves arrived they were basically no longer needed. However that doesn't mean I haven't used them at all or don't have thoughts on them... So first their construction. I had gotten the longer version of the gloves that are supposed to come up your forearms. The hand (Top and Bottom) and just bottom finger sections of the glove have reinforcements (Black areas) that add a little extra padding and thickness however the rest of the glove is actually fairly thin. The glove in areas without the extra padding is only about as thick as some leather work gloves with an insulating liner. Which isn't much... If believing their claim of kevlar lining it should be much stronger though in terms of puncture resistance but the fact of the matter is that they offer almost no protection against having your fingers or hand crushed if you are bit by a big dog. I have every bit of confidence if I was wearing those gloves when I was nipped before my hand would of been fine, and my finger wouldn't of been tore open but that's only because it would of stopped his teeth from being able to peirce my skin. I also have every bit of confidence in saying that if I was wearing these gloves and I was actually bit by him with full power my fingers would of been crushed. Likely to the point of severe damage. And if I was bit even with these on and he decided to try he probably still could take off a finger. Again these are RESISTANT to bites. And you are better having them on then not. But relying on these for full protection is asking for trouble. (Actual bite proof gloves usually have plastic or Aluminium plates in them. Or a chainmail weave. Not some extra bits of thin leather or such...) I mean this protection is so thin I can pinch (Mimicking a bite direction) my gloved finger using my other fingers the point of pain... That ain't enough to protect you... What is also disappointing is with the versions that comes up to your forearms is there is only padding actually in the hand areas. Past your wrist it immediately goes to being a single layer thick. If you get bit in those areas you are relying solely on it helping to stop the teeth from sinking in. It ain't going to do basically anything to reduce the force. In fairness because you have more tissue (Muscle, fat, skin) there than over your hands that does help spread out the force more passively. But is still dissponting. I did get to test these a bit with him though eventually as I used them when I had to try and get him into a kennel while misbehaving and another trying to get stuff out of his mouth he shouldn't of been eating. Good news for that is I didn't feel a thing. However I also believe at that point he wasn't even nipping very hard. These were more excitability nips vs before where he was being agressive/defensive. So though I didn't feel anything it wasn't a super hardcore test. I do feel confident though in that experience this would work very well and probably offer great protection (Likely to the level of being 'Bite Proof') for smaller animals like Terriers or Yorkies and such. Good protection for some Med breeds like Sheepdogs, or smaller Pitbulls. But when it comes to Large breeds like German Shephards, and Rottweilers. Or XL breeds like Mastiffs or Great Danes or such... I do NOT recommend trusting this to save your hands... It probably would also offer really good if not full protection for Rodents, Marsupials, Birds, Reptiles and such unless they are extremely large. And overall for the price you pay these also make really good work gloves. My only concern is possible longevity which I haven't been able to test yet. Mainly with areas like the finger and back of the hand padding and the fold at the glove cuff that seem like they should of been double stitched and not single stitched. But time will tell. Hopefully this all is useful information.