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Worried! Is this ok?

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  • 06-27-2011, 06:15 PM
    Anna.Sitarski
    Worried! Is this ok?
    Ok so I am preparing for feeding time today and I look in my little female lesser's tub and she indeed finally shed and i pick up her hide and find blood spots. I check her over completely, no scale is out of place I check her mouth, face and inside her mouth. I check around her cloaca. Nothing. She is alert and looking for food. I have never had anything like this happen before. I took out the droplets of blood on papertowel and took photos. Could it have been from shed?! Photos below are of her just now.

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  • 06-27-2011, 06:24 PM
    JLC
    Re: Worried! Is this ok?
    A little bleeding during shed is normal. It comes from the vent, which has some delicate tissue that sometimes tears a little when the old skin pulls away from it. Perfectly normal and harmless. :)
  • 06-27-2011, 06:50 PM
    Anna.Sitarski
    Oh god thank you so much Judy!!!!! I was having a mild heart attack. Silly snakes I love them. Thank you again I am so glad its nothing
  • 06-27-2011, 08:51 PM
    dragonboy4578
    I felt the same way the first time I saw blood after one of my bp's shed....
  • 06-27-2011, 09:08 PM
    Anna.Sitarski
    Yeah its scary.. had no idea what was going on never seen it before in my other balls....but she looks fine and ate her first rat pup.. she I guess officially graduated from rat fuzzies.. so I think she is ok :) Little garbage disposal.
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