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Mouse bit my snake!

Baller99k

Baller99k

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I tried searching but failed, so sorry in advance.

Okay, my corn is a year old, and i fed it a decent size mouse not full grown though.

I go back to check on it and i see blood in the feeding box for the first time..first thought it was the mouse, then saw blood on the snake. Mouse bite...

What do I do? Is this really bad or just bad?


help please
 
again yadda yadda dont feed live for this reason ):

BUT you should clean and treat the wound like any other wound you would have. cleaning it with clean water and applying a triple antibiotic ointment and keep an eye on it. if it is a deep wound seek vet care.

Other than that try not to do it again ): even with picky eaters its good to try all other possibilities, even freshly killed but usually live is in extreme cases, of it eating nothing else.

hope your snake feels better!
 
Dorgrim said it all. Frozen/thawed is the way to go, more convenient, cheaper, safer.
 
Okay do I wait for her to digest the mouse of do I do this immediately? I would be afraid to wash her right now...i could prob to the ointment though
 
I would put on ointment now and in 48 hours clean it up good. Before we found that my ball python would eat frozen thawed rat pups, he was bit on his neck and he was completely fine with some antibiotic ointment. I think I only applied it twice and he was perfectly fine. Keep trying different things and you'll find something that will work to make feeding safer, I had just about given up on my bp before we tried f/t rat pups.
 
Snakes heal very well from skin wounds. It happens all the time in the wild. Anyway, I'd wash it up now rather than waiting.
 
Are you sure it's a bite? As in, can you see an actual injury? The blood could be from the mouse. When I fed live, my snake would usually strike hard enough to cause the mouse to breed from the ears/nose. So, she'd usually get blood on her.
 
Just make sure any ointment doesn't have painkillers in it.

I agree, put the ointment on now. Just check on it every day to see how well it's healing. If there is any sign of infection, take the snake to a vet right away before it gets too serious.

After while it will scab over, and after a few sheds it should be fine barring any infection.

I hope this experience has helped you realize that feeding live is not in the best interest for the snake. :) Besides, feeding frozen/thawed is much more convenient. Freshly killed is good too.
 
Raptor said:
Are you sure it's a bite? As in, can you see an actual injury? The blood could be from the mouse. When I fed live, my snake would usually strike hard enough to cause the mouse to bleed from the ears/nose. So, she'd usually get blood on her.
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I was just gonna say that! Same thing used to happen to me alot too before I went strictly f/t a few years back. Hopefully this is all that happened in this case too!
 
VickyChaiTea said:
Just make sure any ointment doesn't have painkillers in it.
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So, for example Neosporin with "pain relief" is NOT a good idea, but regular Neosporin is okay? I guess I never thought about the difference between those two. Thanks for pointing that out.

To the OP. How long has your snake been eating live mice? I'm assuming his whole life, and considering that he's eating almost full grown rodents, I'll guess he's at least a year or two old. So, it may take awhile to switch over to frozen thawed, but it will be worth it. As your snake gets larger the mice will also get larger. Male mice can be particularly aggressive and have been known to kill snakes. NEVER leave your snake unattended with a live rodent. Even if you are watching, however, there are risks involved, as you have just observed. You may need to tease feed frozen thawed rodents for awhile, or if your snake absolutely won't take them at first, try stunning a live rodent before offering it to your snake.

Good luck. You snake will hopefully be fine. Let this be a lesson though, not the first of many rodent caused injuries.
 
I live in alaska, most of the mice I get from petstores or order and have shipped in, either have been refrozen or are in pretty bad shape, so I have to buy live and prekill them for my blizzard, otherwise she rejects 2 out of 3 mice before she eats. sometimes the other snakes even reject a few she has rejected. but they ALL eat the fresh killed, every time.

the trick with her is PreKill! she will strike and eat if its still warm. if you have any issues with your snake not eating dead, try the fresh killed, warm yet DEAD mouse.

as for teeth ripping out... we arnt going to go there.. theres laws againt torturing animals.
 
Hi. I also have a Corn Snake. A Carolina Corn snake 950 + long and +- under 1 year or 1 year old. She. She was also bitten by a Jumper mice but not bleeding. Now she are very scared of mice. The problem is we fed her in her cage. Now she doesn't want to eat and doesn't want to stay in the cage. It seems she wants to get out. Okay. We fed her after 10 days a fuzzy. She were scared too but start eating it and spit it out .......twice the same story. After a while she ate him alive. The pet shop inform me to start giving her picky's again. We bought some and has to get rid of it due that she doesn't want to eat. Please. We feel terrible that she has to go through this and doesn't handle her much any more. She doesn't want to eat. Seems to me her mouth is sore. Could it be and what can we do that she can eat again?My email address for help are [email protected]. Urgent please
 
Why don't you kill the mice before feeding them to her? You can either kill the mouse and feed it right away, or if it cools off, reheat it with a blow drier or hot water.
 
Nanci, thank you for the response. My husband did afterwards kill the mice and hold it in front of our snake.......but she were scared and doesn't want to eat it. We had to get rid of the mice. We even bought 3 pinkies and to flash it down the toilet as she doesn't even want to eat them. I'm concern due to the fact that she are scared of mice. This happened for the past 3 weeks now. We even moved her to a quit area and she are very very active.
 
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