What to do if the feeders bite your BP

One of my BP's wont eat frozen thawed, So im feeding live, only full grown mice at the moment. What happens when rat feeding is needed and your BP gets a nasty bite from the rat?

Just would like to know if theres anything that should be done to properly look after the bite?

I use betadine and polysporin if its bad. But when i drop in live rats, i have hemostats there on hand if needed.

When rat goes to bite, i pinch its nose with the hemos to keep the bottom jaw from completing a bite.

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Originally Posted by RichsBallPythons

I use betadine and polysporin if its bad. But when i drop in live rats, i have hemostats there on hand if needed.

When rat goes to bite, i pinch its nose with the hemos to keep the bottom jaw from completing a bite.

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:gj:

mine only eats live also, and like he said, keep something close by. i always have needle nose or wire cutters on hand, so if my snake gets it in a way that the rat can bite, you can just break its neck real quick if it tries to

Rich nailed it keep betadyne handy and a pair of chopsticks or hemos.


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Kill it with fire.


but really, I have never had a problem with live feeding yet. Though last feeding, my male ghost decided to miss a couple of times, so before anything 'could' have happened, I picked up the rat and killed it quickly with a quick strike to the back of the neck/head.


Have you tried prekilled instead of frozen thawed? Some snakes are more likely to eat that at first.

No havent considered prekilled, its only one BP that eats live, I dont want to build a co2 chamber for the amount ill use it, and killing them other ways could get messy :)

I always pre kill all mine. Fro hoppers up grab them
By the tail and whack there head against the wall or dresser etc. That's what works for me no mess and the mess stI'll kicks anr what not hope this helps

can you use neosporin for wounds?

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Originally Posted by RichsBallPythons

When rat goes to bite, i pinch its nose with the hemos to keep the bottom jaw from completing a bite.

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This works very well...

1) I don't feed live to any of my snakes currently, but when I do, I have 12'' hemostats on hand. With large feeders, after the strike and coil, I like to give the rat something to chew on other than my snake.. and that ends up being the tips of the hemostats.

2) Pre-killing is easy. Cervical dislocation is a technique I particularly like for separating the spinal column and instantly killing your feeder. I pin the head gently with a pencil at the edge of a table. Firmly grab the BASE of the tail. Pull the tail straight out away from the head, as if you were trying to break a rubber band by stretching it too far. Don't jerk, just be firm and quick. There may be videos on youtube. I like this better than CO2, it's faster and (IMO) more humane to the feeder. However, it may not be as easy for YOU to perform mentally. A similar technique is used to dispatch large rabbits farmed for their meat, and I've successfully used cervical dislocation easily on rats as large as ~200g, so it can even be done with large feeders.