Spider got bit.

I was just about to post a thread about this. My spider just got the same treatment about twenty minutes ago. The bite wasn't quite as bad as yours, though. The mouse caught him on the neck and under the chin; it bled for a while, but stopped quickly. I rinsed it off with a damp paper towel and put some neosporin on it, and now I'm just hoping it doesn't get infected :/

I put him in a dark container with clean paper towels inside his cage; I won't leave him in there for very long, but I think it'll give the wound a chance to close up a bit before it has to go on his bedding, especially since it's under his chin.

Good luck with your little girl, hope it heals clean :]

Try using tongs next time and hold the mouse by the back of the neck so the snake gets a headshot. Kill em first and do the zombie mouse dance. It looks like a good bite hopefully it heals up nice

I was just going to tell you what bman said....

Use tongs stun the mouse....don't kill it. Hold it with the tongs for the snake. I feed live however I never just put the mouse in the enclosure, we always feed with tongs and stun right before.

Ugh...I am so sorry to hear she was hurt...that looks really bad.

UPDATE!!!

She looks like she is doing fine. It's got a fine start on healing, you can still see the wound but it's dry clean and I guesse scabbing over nicely. I took pictures of it just now but they are crap so whatever.

I know it will take a few sheds or so before I know how it will look in the long run. BTW how many (a guesse would be fine) sheds before I could consider it healed? Like I said I have been feeding live for years and this is the first bite I have experienced.

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Originally Posted by Deborah

Do not use peroxide (it stings and is not good for anything except remove stain ;)) use betadine or Chlorhexadine and apply some neosporine without pain killer or any triple anti-biotic ointment

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My advice is the same as Deborah's. However, I thought I'd post in the interests of correct information, even if the end advice is the same.

I'm not a doctor or anything, but according to my understanding, peroxide DOES kill germs. It also kills healthy tissue just as effectively. Once upon a time, killing germs was pretty important, because we had fewer options to treat an infection. Now, it is usually just as effective to use something like neosporin, and you'll end up with less scarring because it doesn't kill the healthy tissue.