So today I was feeding everybody, and I had a strange incident with my largest breeder female cinnamon. She is usually up for eating anything, so I usually feed her extras that by other snakes don't eat. This week that meant she got an extra pup, a relatively small meal for her. She constricted it, but I later noticed that as she was swallowing it it was still breathing. It didn't appear to struggle at that point, but I now think that it bit the inside of her mouth. She was holding her jaw funny after the feeding, and about three hours after this picture was taken there was a little bit of red blood colored angry area that are just barely visible in these pictures. We also pried her mouth open and looked inside, and you can see the little bite wound near the back of her cheek. My question is, what if anything can I do for her until I can get her to a Vet? the specialist reptile vet here is by appointment only on Saturday and I left them a message, but it may still be until Monday before she can be seen. I would like to know what I could do to help in the mean time? Also, am I over-reacting? It looked like a small injury, though she was holding her jaw funny. How much danger is there of infection?
And a close up, where you can just see the red marks forming. They were more pronounced later.
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