really neat but badly scarred dinker

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got her in a trade, her entire spine is scar tissue from what has to be the worst rat attack i've ever seen. she was completely healed when i got her but won't eat rats, big surprise. i love her head spot and she is nice and reduced, anybody think she looks like a morph?

She looks like a pretty, but badly scarred, normal.

I like her dorsal stripe.
sent you an FR while I was there LOL ;)

She is pretty. Normal and pretty

She's pretty! That scarring looks more like a burn - far too consistent to be a rat attack.

She's nice.

I also agree that it doesn't look like a rat attack.
And even if it was, it means the keeper left the feeder in for an irresponsible amount of time. That's not normal for responsible live feedings. It looks like she scraped her back trying to escape her enclosure. Or maybe even a burn like suggested before.

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I'd also like to add that a rat attack wouldn't be a rat chewing its way all the way down the spine. A rat "attack" would be localized to one area, and rats don't generally "attack" ball pythons. As mentioned above, if it was left in for days with no other food or water, it would begin to eat the snake, but it wouldn't be just the back in such a consistent manner.

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She's pretty! That scarring looks more like a burn - far too consistent to be a rat attack.

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That's a good point. I was wondering how the rat bites were so bad, but only on the spine, a burn makes perfect sense.


She's a really pretty normal, nice and reduced.

My vote is that she scrapped up her back trying to escape from a poorly closed enclosure, I've seen scarring like this on that on other snake that have done it.

A burn makes so much more sense! The girl I got her from said the previous owner said it was from a rat, but it seems way too symmetrical and thorough to be from a rat. Doesn't explain why she won't eat rats though lol. She's in a secure enclosure now and ate 5 adult mice today, woohoo!