Hey all~

The other day I picked up a BP from a teacher at the school I work for, she said that a friend of hers found it on the side of the road. I'll post pictures up, but aside from the "typical" rescue problems (dehyrdation, jacked up shed) she had a long, fairly deep gash down her side, starting about 2 inches back from the head and going for about 4-5 inches in length. It's closed up now, but my problem is, if I feed this guy a rat, isn't it just going to open the gash back up once the skin stretches out? I mean, it remains to be seen whether or not he'll even actually accept food, but I don't want feed anytime soon just in case. I was going to wait about 2-4 weeks, but then again, who knows when the last time this thing ate was. It's a little underweight, but I'm sure it won't starve to death within 30 days.

I'll put some pictures up later so you can see what I mean.