Helloo!

I work at a exotics store/breeder and I normally work with their lizards and sometimes in-verts but not the snakes.

But today they had a problem with a recent BP hatchling and nobody wanted to bother to force/assist feed it. The hatchling is 20 gram and really slow and hasn't shed but they said they need to get some food in it because the size. It wouldn't strike and had no desire for food apparently. I Googled this and found out about force/assist feeding so I tried this but it wouldn't take the pinkie. So I cut the pinkie into about 6 even ish parts and put one in the BP's mouth.

The BP wouldn't swallow so I used one fork of the tong to push it a little, just to the opening of the throat. It still wouldn't swallow so I gently rubbed the food along with my thumb tip and did that for all the pieces. I told a superior and got told off but it's been most of my shift and it hasn't vomited up the mouse so is it OK? Or did I hurt it and will it die? TY and sorry for bad English

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