Mouse bit my ball

[cpro67]

I was feeding Mickey (my ball) a live mouse tonight and he struck it in a bad spot. It looks like the mouse may have bitten him, but nothing too bad. Is there anything I should do to prevent infection or should I just let him heal by himself? There was a tiny bit of blood where the bite was. He still ate the mouse, too.

[butters!]

put a bit of neosporin,the original,you DONT want pain reliever stuff.make sure your hands are clean or use a cue tip

[cpro67]

Sounds good to me. It was really weird. I have fed him probably 10 times now since I got him and this is the first time it hasn't gone well.

[gmcclurelssu]

i've almost had that happen twice. i have some feeding tweezers that i put in the rats mouth so it bit metal while it died

[cpro67]

I have some of those too but they were in my bedroom under my bearded dragons viv. It happened so fast that it probably wouldn't have mattered but I am going to keep them close by now when I feed Mickey.

[Thor26]

try to switch to f/t its not as fun to watch but WAY safer when you start feedin rats it can get nasty.

[cpro67]

I did the f/t mice for the first few feedings but my daughter really likes to pet the mice before we feed them to the snake. I will probably try to switch back to f/t once I start feeding larger prey. My ball is still pretty young so I don't have him on rats yet.

[Debbienflorida]

try to switch to f/t its not as fun to watch but WAY safer when you start feedin rats it can get nasty.

I get the joy out of watching my snakes eat, even if it is f/t. An eating snake is a happy snake.

[MeMe]

try to switch to f/t its not as fun to watch but WAY safer when you start feedin rats it can get nasty.

WAY safer???

how so?

Also...how is feeding rats nasty?

[ViciousBliss]

WAY safer???

how so?

Also...how is feeding rats nasty?

safer because the dead animal obviously won't be biting yer snake

and i think they meant nasty as in the rats fight back!