So this happened

Sonny has been pushing pretty heavily and were at 10 or 11 days since his last feeding. Poor guy is starting to look like rudolph. He's got a meal thawing as we speak, and i just had him out to scrub his enclosure and give him a bit of exercise.

here is his new tub to hang out in while im cleaning his enclosure, its 28"x17" to get an idea of his size in there.
https://i.imgur.com/RmEOikY.jpg

And here's his face
https://i.imgur.com/XYI9N3T.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/7CbDXOs.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/fkWIo5x.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/MuiM3ch.jpg
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Originally Posted by Dxw425

Sonny has been pushing pretty heavily and were at 10 or 11 days since his last feeding.

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Yeah dunno what day I thought it was just now but that should read 16 - 17 days since his last feeding. We've gone a lot longer than previously when spacing out his meals which i'm happy about. He only started banging his face up the last two nights

Okay so i fed Sonny a few hours ago and just peeked at him and at first i was surprised because it appeared as though the redness and swelling on his snout had gone down some, and then was even more surprised to see what look like two large abscesses in his mouth. Im going to post pictures here shortly and schedule a vet visit for as soon as possible. Thoughts once the pictures are up would be greatly appreciated

here it is
https://i.imgur.com/FTT9UfE.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/73LVggw.jpg

That doesn’t look bad honestly. Feed him heavier and push him through a shed cycle and it will likely look like it never happened. At this point I’d nearly kill to have Phyllis’s face look that good. I don’t know how other folks get their retics to go more than 10 days without food without getting bad push face. Gerald never went past 8-10 days at the very most and Phyllis had always been a weekly feeder until this recent nonsense with her face


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That honestly makes me feel a whole lot better. You think i should swab him a bit with a Betadine solution just incase? I went full panic mode when i saw it the first thing that came to mind is what you're going through with phyllis. He's behaving normally, he drank some water after he ate and coiled under the heat panel, and got really excited thinking he'd get a second rat when i opened his enclosure to flip the light on.

Nice looking retic. Hope he chills out with the pushing for you.

I'd just feed him and make him sit still. Pushing that hard is him trying to tell you he's hungry in most cases. Or that something else about his husbandry is bothering him. If temps and humidity are good then feed him and make him be quiet. No reason in my opinion to try for a two week+ feeding interval unless you're trying to keep him smaller or get him to lose weight, and he looks perfectly healthy. Retics are very proactive about telling you when they want to eat.

Well i've got him an appointment at the vet just to be safe, the earliest they had is Tuesday so ill watch him closely until then and hope it begins to clear up. My guess is he must've broken a tooth because the inside of his mouth wasn't swollen at all until after he ate, so maybe that rat caused it to poke his gums. So far it seems like its a little bit more enlarged than the last picture i posted.

That doesn't look bad at all, sometimes the gums get inflamed from the pushing but of course, never a bad thing to get it checked out by the vet.
Usually trying to fix the issue (sounds like just hungry in this instance) along with some neo (non pain killing kind) applied to the gums for a few days and a shed will have it back to normal.
best wishes, hope it goes down soon