I feed live and fully know the risks of doing so. I prescent the cage in order to invoke a feeding response so that the snake strikes almost immediately...

As usual the strike came about 10 seconds after I put the rat in. Unfortunately this time George did not get a good strike in and nailed the rat right on the butt. The rat managed to get a bite in on George and there is a little bit of blood, not even enough to run down his body onto the newspaper substrate. Its like a tiny pinprick.

Its 5:40 and he is just finishing swallowing and I'm wondering how long I should wait to pull him out and inspect the spot. I don't want to cause a regurge but I also want to check and make sure there is no real damage. Is it safe to do it tonight or should I wait until morning? I will get a pic of it and put it up here so somebody could check it out for me as well.

As a precaution would it be a good idea to put a bit of nonmedicated neosporin on the spot maybe daily or every other day? It really doesn't look like its going to be anything too bad but I'm not willing to risk anything...