Quote Originally Posted by jim020cricket View Post
...I don't condone live feeding with rats at all. Once a boa is moving up to the small rat stage, it's one in a thousand that will not eat a f/t...if that high of a percentage. So why take the added risk at all? I don't understand it at all. It's a risk, whatever way you want to put it....it's still a risk. Why do it?

I know this is going to set some people off, but frankly I don't care...
Jimi~ I agree with you 100% and is why I asked how big the rat was. However, you DO care about people and what people think and THAT is why you are putting out your experience so passionately. And while Connie has a point about this being primarily a ball python site, there is this section for boas and people ought to learn that boas and balls are very different and need different feeding strategies. Might for Right Jimi!!!! I just love it when you get all hot and bothered....

Quote Originally Posted by SatanicIntention View Post
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I would clean the wound with some chlorhexidine, really flush it out, and pack it with a good dob of neosporin(off-brand is perfectly acceptable). You can also flush it with betadine. I don't mean dab it on, I mean FLUSH it. You want some force behind it. Get a large syringe 30cc or bigger, and a needle, 20-22g works well, suck up some betadine or chlorhexidine, and go to town. This is what the vet would do anyway.

Afterwards, after it is dry, you can get a NEW tube of super glue, put some dabs around the edges(after you have packed it with neosporin) and glue the edges shut...
I was wondering about the super glue Becky. I know that I have done this for some of my kids' boo boo's for years. Cool to know that it can also be done with other animal species.