I am relatively new to caring for BP's and got my first about a year and a half ago. About 30 minutes ago, I was feeding my 950g Mojave (she only eats live). When she struck the rat, I noticed the rat possibly was biting her. Half of its mouth was inside hers, and the other half was on the side of her skull. I took the tongs and lightly pulled its teeth off of her head. However, I of course didn't know what was going on inside her mouth with the other half. After that rat died, I left to clean her hides. After about 5-10 minutes, I came back and found about 7 little one inch long blood streaks all over the newspaper substrate. I panicked and instantly thought the rat did some damage on the inside of her mouth. I got real close to the cage and looked around but didn't see any blood on her. I decided that I had to take a peek at her because I didn't want her to injure herself more trying to eat the rat if she was hurt. When I picked her up I saw a little pin prick of blood on her neck about a half inch backwards from under her jaw. I then looked at the rat and the only place the rat was bleeding was a little tiny spot on its front paw. I couldn't picture that little spot giving out enough blood to cause all of the little blood streaks. So I decided to look in her mouth. When I got her mouth open, I didn't see anything. I felt terrible for inturrupting her meal time but I had to make sure.

Do you guys think I did the right thing by checking her? Do you think she will remember it and have it affect future feedings?

I removed the rat from her cage when I was holding her because I'm still not 100% sure she isn't inujured. Any advice on re-checking her for injuries?

Thanks for the help!