We put our DH sunglow male in with our possible het a few days ago. The male had been attempting to court and everything was going fine. Tonight I went to check on them before bed and the female was eating the male. His head was in her mouth and he was curled up trying to escape. I quickly pulled the female out to try to get the male free from her. After a few minutes of struggling (and pouring alcohol down her mouth) we got her mouth open, to find out the male was biting her inside her mouth right above the trachea. After prying him out we rushed to the emergency vet hospital (I just got back now at 3am). The female got the worst of it, with a severy bruised mouth. The male has a small abbrasion on his head from the initial strike, and both probably have broken teeth. Theyre both on antibiotics now, and should be fine. I was wondering, does this happen often with breedings? Can it be prevented? I know we got off really lucky this time... I can't figure out what provoked the attack, i'm just glad I went to check on them. Any advice or opionions would be appreciated. Thanks!
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0.1 Het Albino
1.0 DH-Sunglow
1.0 TH-Moonglow

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• Horrible Breeding Mishap!!! - senorsnake, Sun Jul 23 03:03:42 2006
• Could either of them. . . - Morgans Boas, Sun Jul 23 04:50:47 2006
• RE: Horrible Breeding Mishap!!! - vcaruso15, Sun Jul 23 10:22:45 2006
• RE: Horrible Breeding Mishap!!! - bthacker, Sun Jul 23 11:00:04 2006
• RE: Horrible Breeding Mishap!!! - senorsnake, Sun Jul 23 12:57:50 2006
• HOPEFULLY THEY WERE NOT 18 MONTH OLD.... - millenniummorphs, Sun Jul 23 13:03:46 2006
• We'll leave that up to you! LOL...... - bthacker, Sun Jul 23 13:17:34 2006
• RE: HOPEFULLY THEY WERE NOT 18 MONTH OLD.... - senorsnake, Sun Jul 23 13:21:31 2006
• RE: HOPEFULLY THEY WERE NOT 18 MONTH OLD.... - millenniummorphs, Sun Jul 23 17:27:30 2006
• Happened to me last year - Sloas, Sun Jul 23 20:34:18 2006
• RE: Happened to me last year - senorsnake, Mon Jul 24 00:51:40 2006
• RE: Happened to me last year - PastelDream, Mon Jul 24 02:18:40 2006
• RE: Happened to me last year - Sloas, Tue Jul 25 23:38:18 2006
• RE: Horrible Breeding Mishap!!! - PastelDream, Mon Jul 24 02:09:27 2006
• RE: Horrible Breeding Mishap!!! - senorsnake, Mon Jul 24 13:53:03 2006
• Yes this has happened to me as well.... - STUART, Mon Jul 24 13:18:49 2006
• RE: Yes this has happened to me as well.... - senorsnake, Mon Jul 24 13:39:21 2006
• RE: Yes this has happened to me as well.... - snakehorse, Tue Jul 25 12:22:59 2006