Ever?

Ever feed your snake and when you come back and check on them and all you see is blood everywhere? I just experience this for the first time. I see blood on the mouse that is being eaten, I see blood on my BP that is eating the rat, and I see blood on the hides and aspen. And all I'm thinking is I hope my poor baby is okay! I waited until my BP finished off the mouse. I checked and wiped off all the blood. She seems to be perfectly okay. It doesn't appear to be her blood all. But from the mouse. I can't believe that happened. Is this kind of thing normal?


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It happens sometimes. When I feed f/t the rat sometimes has blood coming from it's nose and my snakes can sometimes be messy and smear the rat on the walls of the tub. Were you feeding live or f/t? From your description you make it seem like it was a blood bath in the tub lol.

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It was live. It was all over the hide and all over the BP. Some managed to get on the sides of the tube and a little on the aspen. By the time I wiped it all down it was all dried up :/


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Sounds like the mouse has a pretty bloody death (not to sound too morbid or anything). I would double check your snake in a few days to make sure nothing happened to her. When I feed live I usually don't see that much a mess unless your baby really bit that hard or punctured a main artery in the mouse.

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It could've had internal bleeding on impact of bone crushing... the snake's teeth might've broke skin... the rat could'e bitten itself..

I had one bloody feeding once.
The snake puncture the rat's eye socket. And due to the constriction, the entire head of the feeder was just beading blood well past the death of the feeder.

It happens even with live, remember that there is a lot of pressure applied when a snake coils around it's prey and it can leads to nose bleed, eye popping out etc

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Ever feed your snake and when you come back and check on them and all you see is blood everywhere?

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One of the boas I was housing for a friend used to have this happen almost regularly. I had a mini freak out the first time I saw it. It was a lot like the pic snakesRkewl posted.

The venom in dispholidines is hemmorahagic. It is not uncommon to see extensive bleeding in even f/t prey fed to dispholidines that are inclined to chew rather than swallow f/t prey.

I often hose down the enclosures lightly after feeding, then wet/dry vac out the bloody substrate.

In live prey, blood tends to rapidly ooze out of the eye, the mouth and sometimes even the rectum.