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I was feeding my rainbow boa a live mouse (usually i feed frozen) and he got bit. He ate the mouse and seems fine, but I'm worried about infection. How do i treat it, is it possible to use triple antibiotic ointment?
Where, exactly, was he bitten?I was feeding my rainbow boa a live mouse (usually i feed frozen) and he got bit. He ate the mouse and seems fine, but I'm worried about infection. How do i treat it, is it possible to use triple antibiotic ointment?
It actually depends on how bad the the bite is.I was feeding my rainbow boa a live mouse (usually i feed frozen) and he got bit. He ate the mouse and seems fine, but I'm worried about infection. How do i treat it, is it possible to use triple antibiotic ointment?
Hasnt this picture been around for the longest time? and i think if its not this one than its the other one and people have said that this incident happen because the person wasnt supervising the snake and it wasnt hungry so it got bit.Many many years ago I always fed live, everyone did, it was believed that snakes would not eat dead animals back then. I frequently cringed as one of my beautiful animals would be bitten by their dieing prey, but I have to admit I never had one seriously injured though a few did get scars.
Then somewhere along the way people studied the issue and learned that there was no need to expose our animals to the risk of scars or death from rodent attack. I’ll grant that it is up to the individual on how they choose to feed their animals just as it was up to the person who is responsible for the injuries to the snake featured in the story at the following link.
http://www.beginnersreptiles.com/LiveFeed.html