I'm glad both of your snakes are going to be alright. I can only imagine how freaked out your were. That must have been a scary sight.

BTW next time don't pour alcohol down her throat. Ice water will do the same thing and it can't hurt her.

As for why it might have happened......

I've thought about it for a while and I've come up with.....

Maybe she wasn't ready to breed. I know you said that things seemed to be going well, but what if she wasn't ready and just got pissed a him. Was she acting receptive or... Was he trying to breed and she was slapping her tail around? Sometimes a male is all "lets do it" and the female just tries to get away from him. She'll slap her tail around trying to discourage the male. If a female is doing this she might take it a step further and attack the male. I really don't know if this is something that would happen. I do know that I've had females that wanted no part of breeding and did that slapping around the tail thing. When this happens I normally remove the male. I'll feed the female and then 24 to 48 hours later I'll put the male back in. Sometimes the female is more receptive after feeding and sometimes she's not. Until she's receptive I never leave the male in.

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