Blood streaks everywhere after constricting
Hello everyone. Last night I fed my BP and everything seemed to be going normally. She struck, constricted, and then began smelling the rat (it was a f/t so it was prekilled) for about 30 minutes before she finally ate it. I was aboug 6ft away watching tv so I could keep an distant eye on her. I noticed that she would every once in a while open her mouth about a half inch or so during her pacing/smelling. I thought that was a bit strange but didn't think much of it. I got up and went over to her when I saw she had almost finished swallowing the rat. Thats when I noticed about 20-40 little 1 inch long blood streaks all over the newspaper substrate and even a blood mark or two on the glass cage. This has happened once before about 2-3 months ago when I fed her a live rat. When it happened that time, I assumed she had gotten bitten and was bleeding from inside her mouth or something. I thought that because when she struck the live rat that time, the rat's mouth was half inside hers and have outside. When I noticed the blood streaks that time, I took the rat away and checked inside her mouth but found nothing. However this time, like I said, the rat was a f/t so I know she didn't get bitten. I also know that it is not the rat's What do you think is happening? Is it possible she bit her tongue? Should I be worried about this?
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Re: Blood streaks everywhere after constricting
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Originally Posted by
Neal
It's most likely the rodents blood it could of busted partially when she hit it or just from constricting it.
I very strongly believe that it is not the rodents blood. Like I said, the rat only had a couple pin pricks of blood on it from where she bit and she did not drag the rat at all.
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Originally Posted by
decensored
This happens almost every time when I feed, and it's always the rodents blood. I don't see a lot of blood there. When the pressure builds after a constriction it's common for the rodent to bleed a little bit from it's nose and mouth. You may not have seen it but I almost always have blood on paper substrate after feeding.
That much blood though? Thats a lot of blood, and considering the fact that I didn't see any blood on the rat, its difficult for me to believe that it was all from the rat. Like I said, there was even blood on the cage windows (not pictured).
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Originally Posted by
KMG
Did it just shed? If so it may be from the vent area. I would check it even if it has not recently shed.
It looks like all the blood spots are close to each other so if the vent is fine and the belly is fine I bet it was from the feeder. Just wait til you get one that pops its guys out during a feed.
She shed about 2 weeks ago, but has eaten since then and there was no issue.
Re: Blood streaks everywhere after constricting
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Originally Posted by
The New B
That much blood though? Thats a lot of blood, and considering the fact that I didn't see any blood on the rat, its difficult for me to believe that it was all from the rat. Like I said, there was even blood on the cage windows (not pictured).
Oh yeah, sometimes there's a lot are you feeding FT?
Re: Blood streaks everywhere after constricting
You can also wad up a bunch of paper towels for her to crawl thru and see if she is still oozing.
Re: Blood streaks everywhere after constricting
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Originally Posted by
decensored
Oh yeah, sometimes there's a lot are you feeding FT?
Yeah. I usually feed live, but when I'm up at school (like I am now) I have to feed f/t because there are no places availble to purchase live. She usually doesn't eat f/t but will when she's really hungry. Unfortunately, I don't have a choice and have to feed her f/t.
