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Another Example Of Live Feeding Gone Wrong (Very Graphic)

pridecity

pridecity

Patients took over asylum
I stole this from Ball-pythons.net. I wanted to bring it to everyone's attention because I feel there can never be enough words to describe something. I have attached the story as written by the OP on B-P.net. This happened just this week, posted today. Replies are recommending euthanasia because of the extent of damage and age of the poor snake.

Again, the pictures may be unsuitable for the queasy!

my local petstore had a forgetfull employee tonight,... the employee in charge of feeding the snakes left an adolescent mouse in one of the cages, when the owner found the bp about 1/2 its scales had been eaten. right as i got there they had brought the bp up to the front of the store to decide what to do, the owner then called the employee and fired her. i offered to bring it home and see what i could do for it i figure it deserves a chance at life so they gave me some directions and i wanted to check if there were things i could do in addition to try to help it

the snake is about 8-12 inches long and in my opinion should be only eating two mice pinkies per feeding not an adolescent, none of his belly scales have been punctured, they suggested that i put him in normal tap water for about ten mins to wash the blood off then like a five min soak in betadine for the bacteria, the other herp person that works there recomended zoo meds repti wound-healing aid because it has a mild pain killer in it the owner also recomended using neosporin on it but i wanted to get a few other opinions i will have at least one pic up soon i cant promise quality because i cant pick him up except to treat him i dont want to risk infection,...
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And the link:
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showthread.php?138077-Eaten-Scales-...

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That is horrible! I wouldn't reccommend euthanasia first, I would see if a vet could give it pain and antibiotic meds and if that didn't work then I'd have it put down.
 
The general opinion on the original thread is that due to the extent, maybe it is in to much pain to recover. Plus, with it being so tiny, growing might be a problem.
 
Oh my gosh... Thats sad. Its a good thing they fired her. She obviously didnt know what she was doing.
 
whoa! That poor little guy. :( I hope that it can be saved, though I could certainly understand if they chose to go the euthanasia route.
 
DYK I would probably personally go the euthanasia route do to the amount of exposed tissue. That snake has to be in some serious pain.. So sad :(
 
That poor poor little snake.
I too think that they should try to help it,but if it starts to decline in health then I would put it down.
 
If too much pain was an issue, the snake wouldn't have allowed its skin to be eaten off in the first place. THAT is the problem, they don't feel pain the same way!
 
Nanci, I've always wondered HOW a snake could allow a rodent to do that to it. Wouldn't any snake have struck at the attacker and tried to defend itself?
 
I printed off one of the pictures so that I can take it to work with me. I've been asked about feeding live so many times and I have explained the danger but a lot of times the customers seem like they don't necessarily believe me. Well now I will have picture proof.
 
Honestly, that's the best reason.

"Why you no feed live mices!? It's naturrawl!"

"*shows picture* That is enough reason not to."

"*gags*"
 
You have to remember that leaving a rodent in with the snake for more than about 10 or 15 minutes is bad practice. If feeding live, you can't do this. So this picture is more an indictment of improper feeding technique, than it is of feeding live in general.
 
Kronos said:
You have to remember that leaving a rodent in with the snake for more than about 10 or 15 minutes is bad practice. If feeding live, you can't do this. So this picture is more an indictment of improper feeding technique, than it is of feeding live in general.
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Dead rodents don't bite, no matter how long you leave them in there for.

You can rationalize live feeding in any way you'd like...the mouse was too big, it was in for too long, blablablablabla...in the end, dead mice don't bite. Everything else is an excuse.
 
tyflier said:
Dead rodents don't bite, no matter how long you leave them in there for.

You can rationalize live feeding in any way you'd like...the mouse was too big, it was in for too long, blablablablabla...in the end, dead mice don't bite. Everything else is an excuse.
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I agree with that, mostly. Except in cases where the snake will just not take F/T, then you have to feed it something and you should know the least dangerous way to do it.
 
With my little rescue ATB, I've tried dead and pre-killed. It took a very active small fuzzy to get her to eat. That and three hours. I was terrified of leaving even a fuzzy in with my ATB because of the thin skin on the snake. Ball Pythons feel like steal compared to ATBs. I was lucky enough that my ATB had a good experience. I'm not eager to feed live again and I had to stop myself from staring at the box until she ate the last one.

I see no reason to cause so much stress to myself and the mouse. Then again, I don't even like feeding crickets because they chew on the animals that are supposed to be eating them.
 
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