Snake bleeding?

[Salamander Rising]

My currently-not-eating female [well, she ate one live muse last week] is restless and edgy and tonight, I noticed thin streaks of blood on her newspaper.

She last shed on Dec. 5 so I don't think it's the classic post-shed bleeding.

The streaks of blood look like somebody used a very fine tipped red pen and randomly streaked the paper.

This had to have occurred during the last <48 hours since I just recently
changed her papers.

All temps/humidity good so it's not that.

When I told her breeder she was off her food, he thought she might be ovulating and to stick a male in with her to remind her she's supposed to be pigging out.

He had no interest in her nor she, him.

I have her on plain white paper towels now so I can monitor this closely.

Any ideas?

I have absolutely no herp vets within sane driving distance.

Visually, she looks outstanding.
She's so gloosy she almost looks and feels like a plastic snake.

I'm baffled.

And it just occurred to me that the rat I offered her tonight had a bloody nose and I dragged it everywhere, trying to entice her into eating.

If it's not the [summarily rejected] bloody-nosed rat, what else could it be?

I can't do a "test" and re-drag the rat to check if the blood came from it because after Leah snubbed it, I tossed it to my garbage disposal named Agnes.

[and the male Fire is still afraid of baby mice whose eyes aren't even open yet....sheesh!]

[CoolioTiffany]

It could have been the bleeding nose of the dead rodent, seems like the most logical explanation in this case to me.

But if that's not the case, I would monitor her closely and her paper towels.

A couple thin streaks of blood is nothing compared to large blotches of blood.

[Salamander Rising]

It could have been the bleeding nose of the dead rodent, seems like the most logical explanation in this case to me.

But if that's not the case, I would monitor her closely and her paper towels.

A couple thin streaks of blood is nothing compared to large blotches of blood.

I sure hope so....

BTW, my Dumerils shed yesterday and had some stuck on her throat and head.

Boy, did she ever not like the 'tub and wet towel' treatment.

Bless her sweet heart, she didn't even rip my face off after I kept rubbing her head through the towel, thinking she had stuck eye caps.

Turns out it was the whites of her eyes and I was seeing them as she kept swiveling her eyes to figure out WTD I was doing to her....LOL

[she's still miffed at me]

On Christmas day, all I got to "unwrap" was 3 snakes who apparently decided to "group shed" for the holiday.

Ho ho ho.......

[Rat160]

My currently-not-eating female [well, she ate one live muse last week] is restless and edgy and tonight, I noticed thin streaks of blood on her newspaper.

She last shed on Dec. 5 so I don't think it's the classic post-shed bleeding.

The streaks of blood look like somebody used a very fine tipped red pen and randomly streaked the paper.

This had to have occurred during the last <48 hours since I just recently
changed her papers.

All temps/humidity good so it's not that.

When I told her breeder she was off her food, he thought she might be ovulating and to stick a male in with her to remind her she's supposed to be pigging out.

He had no interest in her nor she, him.

I have her on plain white paper towels now so I can monitor this closely.

Any ideas?

I have absolutely no herp vets within sane driving distance.

Visually, she looks outstanding.
She's so gloosy she almost looks and feels like a plastic snake.

I'm baffled.

And it just occurred to me that the rat I offered her tonight had a bloody nose and I dragged it everywhere, trying to entice her into eating.

If it's not the [summarily rejected] bloody-nosed rat, what else could it be?

I can't do a "test" and re-drag the rat to check if the blood came from it because after Leah snubbed it, I tossed it to my garbage disposal named Agnes.

[and the male Fire is still afraid of baby mice whose eyes aren't even open yet....sheesh!]

Confused by this.