What is this?

[pbyeerts]

Ginger had a good shed last week, and I fed her some live mice. I just noticed these marks/wounds? on both sides of her mouth. Can anyone tell me what they are? I can take her to the vet tomorrow, but I'd like some opinions here. The pics are of both sides of her mouth.

[BCS]

She looks fine to me... but maybe I just can't see what you are looking at?

[pbyeerts]

She's never had the black stripes before, and it looks like she has a red spot on her mouth in the second shot.

[Pippers]

I don't have any experience feeding live mice but, could it have scratched her as it was going down? With its hind legs perhaps?

[Bcycling]

I would guess the live mouse got her a little to cause those two spots. In my opinion it doesn't look bad though, but I would watch any injury just to make sure it doesn't manifest into something more. Everything else just looks like her coloring to me.

[pbyeerts]

Thanks!

[Lady mkrj58]

I see that red spot I don't like feeding live prey it scares me and then I worry for hours if my Baby is ok.

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[Albert Clark]

It looks mostly normal! However on the left side shot it does appear to be some minor irritation on the lower labial scales. Probably from a struggling mouse. It doesn't look serious at all.

[jasca]

My one has got those black stripes as well, I even think they grew a bit larger but I guess I've just been to worried about them as well and confused it with him growing overall ^^'

I think the red marks could have been caused by the mouse too, just keep watching them

[dr del]

I think they are small heat pits - some of mine have them on the lower jaw and some don't.