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blood bath ... what a mess

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palmiro

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the shop sold me a "broken" rat.. peeled skin, broken tail etc. i decided to feed it anyway and my snake, which usually swallows the thing without "playing" too much, this time decided to bring it around the tub quite a lot and squeeze it.. creating a bloody mess.

guts and blood everywhere and on him.. so the result is a stinking snake.

i'm letting him digest the meal, i'm waiting for my corn to poo and then what should i do? should i bath him? or something?

i put him in a plastic box when i have to feed him and i keep washing the tub but the smell pretty much stays there. and it's disgusting. i wonder if a bath on just plain water will rinse the stink away.

any suggestion? i'm pretty disgusted :puke01:
 
If that happens to me, I run the snake under room temp water before putting it away. I have NEVER had a regurge related to washing a snake after feeding it.
 
Some of the young ones might be messy feeders, playing with their food, pretty gross stuff. They usually grow out of it rather quickly.
What Nanci said, just pick them up very gently and move them to the sink slowly, no fast / jittery movements on your part, and rinse them off.
 
I would say that you're safe to handle the snake at the latest when the food bump has disappeared. The food should have passed through the stomach into the intestine at that point, no way for the animal to regurgitate it after that point. Of course I'd say many snakes let you handle them a little bit even right after eating, depends on the individual.

I'd bathe him and clean the cage as well, any organic contamination on the substrate or surfaces invites bacteria and mold.
 
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