She's a pretty little thing! I find the easiest way to tell if their eyes are cloudy is by using a penlight (small flashlight) in a dark room, & shine the beam
from the side, across the curve of their eye: the milky-gray cloudiness shows up easily if they're somewhere in shed. It's always nice to know, so you
don't waste food trying to feed them, or you'll know there's a good reason why, if you go ahead and they happen to refuse to eat. It beats worrying.
About their digestive enzymes, snakes can actually die from repeated regurgitation (like if someone keeps giving them food) because they get dehydrated.
Pinky mice do digest easily & quickly...as mentioned above, there's not much to them. You'd "probably" be ok to feed him one in a few days, but again,
if he's in shed, he may refuse by then anyway.
Also: both shedding & digestion uses & pulls water from the snake's body to accomplish; while some snakes may accept food while in shed & digest fine,
with others it messes up their shed, because for whatever reason, age or poor hydration, they cannot "multi-task" very well. If or when your snake ever
has a "bad shed" this is something to consider (& not panic about). It's easy to miss that a snake is just starting to cloud up & proceed to feed them: it's
not the "end of the world", but we all feel better when our snakes shed normally (ie. in one or very few pieces). Other health issues can cause "bad sheds"
so it's helps to know it can also be of no importance...don't assume the worst (as many new keepers do).
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