Help!

ok i just feed my6 ft baby retic, a large rat and she let go of the ratwhile constricting and the rat gave her an open wound. i noticed it when she was eating the rat.

wat do i do to help it so it dont get infected

Put neosporin (the stuff w/o painkillers) on the wound.

How bad is the "open wound"? Is it dripping blood? Can you see a gaping hole? Or a red area where a scale was maybe torn off? Or a little puncture wound?

You probably don't have to do anything, unless the snake is kept in unclean conditions, in which case filth could get into the wound.

If (as I suspect is most likely) it's just a little nip or puncture, giving it a wash with clean water and perhaps a dab of triple-antibiotic ointment (without pain meds in it) should be fine.

If it's more serious and an open, gaping hole...you might want to get a vet to take a look.

not a gapign hole it ate about 1/4 of pinky toe of scales. liek its red, but the scales are gone.

u see a lil red spot where the sclaes have been eaten off. and on the newspaper u see a TINY bit of blood.

Sounds harmless to me. Just make sure the cage is clean...and if it makes you feel better, you can put some neosporin on it.

ok her cage is very clean, but there was some sheding on her body still when she constricted the rat it came off. and theres some in her cage right now ( will take it out once shes not in her feeding response. right now she is)

but is that ok for now?


some sheeding