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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• 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