Hey guys! I'm just gonna give some background info before i get to my questiion. My family and I rescued a four year old ball about 5 months ago. When we got her, she was in very bad condition. She has several layers of retained eye caps and scars all over her; they said it was from the heat pad, but most of them are on her spine, so unless she is playing cool tricks while we're not looking, i doubt that's what it's from. However, they said that she wouldn't eat anything except live food for her whole life, and from how they explained it, they just kinda left the rat in with her and didn't watch her, so I'm kinda thinking a lot of the scars are from that. They were also wrong about her not eating f/t prey. The first time we offered her f/t food, she took it SO well. She's in good condtion now.

Anyway, here's my question: She is currently shedding, so I was giving her a bath, and while i was drying her off she opened her mouth. She does this everytime i give her a bath. Are they supposed to do that? Also, I noticed this time that there was a BUBBLE in her mouth! Is that just because she was in the water? Should I be worried?

I'm going to try to get her into the vet for a check-up just because of how mistreated she was, and we also suspect that she has an RI because we've been able to hear her breathesince we got her. The breathing seems to be getting better, but I'm still gonna try to get her in just in case. Is there anything in addition to that that I can do?

Any help is INCREDIBLY appreciated!
-Rachel

P.S. Sorry, the post is kinda long..