I was reaching into my BP's enclosure with a glove on my hand to clean up some pee and he bit me. He let go immediately, but he took a piece of my glove with him. I think he thought I was going to feed him because I went downstairs to get the glove and he associates that sound with being fed since his rats are kept in a freezer in the basement, and I feel really stupid for not considering that before reaching in.
Here is the finger of the glove, I think the circular hole at the top is the piece that got stuck to his teeth. It's roughly the size of two sunflower seeds. It's also possible the little triangular hole further down also came off but I didn't see that piece anywhere.
I saw the piece of glove stuck to his teeth when he yawned after he bit me and I could see a little bit of blue sticking out of the corner of his mouth. I opened his mouth with a Q-tip (fuzzy ends were removed) and tried but failed to get it out. By then Noodle was stressing out, so I put him back into his enclosure and tried to Google what to do. When I took him out and checked again, the blue piece was gone, so I think he swallowed it
Is he going to be okay, and does he need to see a vet? Is there any chance he could get impacted or poisoned from this? Are there any bad signs I should look out for? It was a Vulcan latex-free nitrile glove. I feel so bad that this happened, I really should have been more alert to him being in food mode.
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