...and am sharing my stupidity hoping others will learn from it. I had two leftover live jumbo mice after feeding the BPs today (first time with jumbo mice and I bought too many) so I decided to feed them to Wee Nake, and tossed the first one in her cage, on her fresh bed of fluffy aspen. I don't know what went wrong, but she missed, and grabbed a huge mouthful of aspen, then immediately struck at it again, which implanted the aspen in her mouth.
I am very thankful for several things tonight 1) I own, and remembered to put on the heavy leather gloves before picking her up (first time she's bit me, was angry/food frenzied) 2) I live 500 yards from my local reptile store which has a kind and experienced staff 3) she was mostly angry rather than actually injured.
They were able to use a little tool thingy to open her mouth and get the 4 splinters of wood out that were stuck. Luckily none were very deep, though I'll be keeping a close eye out for infection over the next couple days and ordering a set of those little tools. I will be feeding her in the bath tub from now on also.
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