Lesson for All *GRAPHIC*

[wolfy-hound]

I hit "Thanks you" for the post, for being candid enough to admit that you had a unfortunate feeding accident. Sometimes things happen, and yes, feeding frozen thawed would have meant it wouldn't have happened, but again... sometimes things happen.

I do the same. I monitor feeding and check to make sure everyone has eaten. About once a year, I go back in the morning checking on snakes and find a sneaky rat that somehow hid from me in a corner the night before, an thus was still alive in the tub with my snake! Thus far I have been extremely lucky in that I haven't had any injury to the snakes, but I'm aware it COULD happen. It always makes me resolve to double check closer, and most of the time now I don't even close a tub before I see the snake strike and bind.

Many people would start saying "Oh, see that's because you feed live..." or otherwise point blame as if they've never had any sort of issue... but then how many "My snake got out!!" posts have we seen? How many "I fed too big and he threw it up!?" or other ACCIDENTS that were just happenstance and not a keeper who was careless or lazy... just unlucky.

I hope your guy heals super fast. They are very resilient creatures, and with some good care, I'm sure he'll heal up.