a little blood...

[jessie_k_pythons]

Angel my 2 month old BP came back from the vet healthy but today I'm seeing a bit of blood come from her vent. Should I take her back to the vet?

She is not gushing, or oozing just a little red.
thanks guy/gals

[Regal Boids]

Did she just shed? I know once in a while right after they shed you might see a little blood there from the old skin.

[jessie_k_pythons]

yeah she did just shed. but I would think it would have stoped by now. She is'nt leaving blood on the news paper but I picked her up to clean her cage and her vent opened and there was blood visable.(sp?)

[JLC]

Was it blood? Or pink/red tissue from inside the vent area? Sometimes they will open their vent if very stressed and evert all or part of their sexual organs. You may have just gotten a glimpse of that. It could be mistaken for "bleeding," I think. If you just leave the snake alone when that happens, it'll be fine.

And I'll be up front to say that I'm not all that familiar with this phenomenon, but I believe I got the vague details of it right. If I'm confusing this with something else, I'm sure someone will step in and correct me.

[Adam_Wysocki]

Did the vet probe her?

-adam

[jessie_k_pythons]

no but she was probed one last time to make sure that she was in fact female. That was what Ben told me.