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She escaped some time ago and was found a while back with some bad scratches on her, probably from the 3 cats we have. With some neosporin treatment and few meals, she shed (not very well though, it was in a thousand pieces) and now she looks great. I think she is going to be OK.

Im feeding her small meals, when can I start feeding her bigger meals? Also, should the neosporin continue?

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here she is:

And her potential mate:

looks fine. i would keep the meals on the smaller side meaning fuzzies as opposed to adults, but w/normal frequency every 5to10days depending on your preferance, and i would keep the neosporin applied to any open areas where the scales&skin have not rejoined, after 5,6 sheds i doubt you will even be able to tell, they are very resilient animals thats for sure congrats again,,,thomas davis

She's only a yearling, so she has been eating pinkies. You can still see them go down, but it doesnt stretch her wounds. She just seems to be starving when I feed her once a week. She doesnt even kill the pinks, just swallows them while they are wiggling around.

Glad to hear your snake is doing fine!! I imagine the worst of the wounds will leave some sort of scarring, but will probably be hard to see. All snakes are different, just like all animals, and heal different. I have a red X eastern that has some old scarring that looks darker than the rest of the body, and a racer that had some very deep wounds that are healing great, but will be visible as scars for the rest of the snakes life I would bet. I would feed her 2 decent sized pinks every 4 or 5 days. As long as she fully digests them, she will do fine. I feed my neonates - yearlings every 4 days with no ill effects. They all do great on this schedule and grow great!
Brian

>>She escaped some time ago and was found a while back with some bad scratches on her, probably from the 3 cats we have. With some neosporin treatment and few meals, she shed (not very well though, it was in a thousand pieces) and now she looks great. I think she is going to be OK.
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>>Im feeding her small meals, when can I start feeding her bigger meals? Also, should the neosporin continue?
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RATS
1.0 Corn snake "Warpath" (KY locale)
1.0 Black rat snake "Havok" (KY locale)
1.1 Black rat snakes "Reaper and Mystique" (MO locale)
1.0 Albino Black rat snake "Malakai" (Dwight Good stock)
1.0 Everglades rat snake "Deadpool" (Dwight Good stock)
0.1 Greenish rat snake "Rogue" (Dwight Good stock)
1.0 Yellow rat snake "Wolverine" (Dwight Good stock)
1.0 Grey rat snake "Punisher" (White oak phase)(Dwight Good stock)

MILKS
0.0.1 Eastern Milk snake "Cable" (KY locale)
0.0.1 Eastern/Red milk intergrade "Omega Red" (KY locale)
Good luck and Happy Herping
Brian