Hey folks,

Just a little bit of a back story: I fed my normal girl last Tuesday. I've been noticing that she has been grabbing all her prey lately in the wrong way (i.e. by the tail, by the butt, etc) and this last prey item was no different. She got the rat on the butt and there was a ton of blood which I later noticed was coming from the rats rear end; but, seeing as she's very strike happy and didn't want to be fooled around with after she got done swallowing the rat, I let her be until the next day [after doing a once over of her neck while she was swallowing the rat]. Next day, I checked her out but couldn't find much of anything because she was in blue.

I decide to check her out after she shed (yesterday night) and low and behold I find two small lumps and what looks to be an "open" wound on the side of her neck. I touched the lumps and they were hard to the touch but didn't seem to bother her when I was poking at them. I searched the forums and online for "lumpy snakes" and rat bites but couldn't really come up with anything that answered my question: should I be worried? I know these snakes have I really nice built in defense to these kinds of things but I don't even know if it's a rat bite or not at this point because I haven't found anything that looks like this and I didn't see the rat actually bite her [she likes to wrap in a way that makes it near impossible to see what's going on].

Here are some pics of her. Sorry in advance if they are too blurry but she was in "investigation mode" when I was trying to take pics (also doesn't help that she is afraid of the camera):

1. Large Bump
2. Smaller Bump
3. Suspected Intruding Bite Wound