So, my BP should have been on small rats for awhile now, but due to nothing being available but jumbo rats she's been on mice. Today I found out that the place we get mice from started carrying small rats, so I gave those a shot. Luckily she doesn't appear to have fixated on mice and took it no problem.

Anyway, true to form, she bit the rat just above its tail end and I had to quickly intervene to keep it from doing serious damage. It got in a couple good bites before I could wrestle its head out and get the tongs in its mouth. I wanted to point out that trying its hardest and getting in a couple direct bites, it managed to scuff a scale. I think this is really a testament to how tough snake-skin is. The only damage done was a tiny scratch on her neck that was only visible when it was completely stretched out swallowing the rat. I'll keep an eye on it, but I'm not worried about it at all.
She actually eventually had to let go and constrict it properly (at which point it died in about ten seconds). That's how bad this strike was. I'm kind of amazed at how bad a hunter my BP is.

She did manage to really freak me out because she had blood on a few scales around her mouth that have always been kind of messed up (I assume from an injury or infection at the petstore prior to me adopting her) and I thought she had somehow got bitten in the mouth. Turns out it was rat blood, so no harm done there.

Even though you all know to supervise live feeds, I just thought I'd post this. If I hadn't been right there, she definitely would have taken a pretty serious injury because of a bad strike.