I'm in a rough space right now. I just purchased 2 new ball pythons. They arrived last week on Thursday. I was planning to feed them on Tuesday but I had surgery so I pushed it back to today. My son has been begging me for the last week to hold them. He normally helps me with our original ball python that we brought back in June. He normally does pretty good with that snake, so I said well, let's hold them and then we can feed them. I was in the bathroom, prepping the mouse for the ball python while my son was sitting on the couch. The python was in his hands and he panicked and dropped it from maybe somewhere around 2 feet off the ground. In his panic, he tried to catch it and only made things worse as it looks like the snake hit the ground head first. He seems fine and had no visible bruises but it does seem like his mouth looks a little weird.
Also, this ball python was a little jumpy and now he's extremely jumpy. I'm mad at my son but I'm even more mad at myself for going against my better judgement. Have any of you ever dropped a ball python?
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