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I came home from the reptile show today and noticed my ball python was injured a few days ago from a mouse bite...the whole tail section is torn up and is white and pink? will it scar and what can i put on the injury...thanks...mike

I would wash it gently and put neosporin on it daily. Be sure to keep your ball's cage extra clean and dry. Let it scab over. Yes, there will be a scar.

Christy

Put triple antibiotic ointment on it. If it doe's not start healing in about a week take it to a vet. I had a yearling honduran milksnake that had a no scales at its neck (I don't know how it happend)and it look like it was healing but about 2 weeks later a opened its cage and found it dead. Hope this helps Scott Glover

>>I came home from the reptile show today and noticed my ball python was injured a few days ago from a mouse bite...the whole tail section is torn up and is white and pink? will it scar and what can i put on the injury...thanks...mike

Actually you should take it to a vet NOW. Mice/rats carry bacteria on their teeth and any bite (serious or just a nip) can easily turn into a fatal infection in a snakes' blood stream (septicema). The snake needs to go on injectible antibiotics. If you don't take it to a vet, you are spinning the roulette wheel on whether your snake is able to pull through on its own or not. I've spun that wheel often enough, but once I had a snake die I wised up.

I had an 18 year old ball python die from the most minor of nips from a mouse because I thought to wait a few days to see how the wound looked hopeing I wouldn't have to go to the vet. I had a black rat snake that was attacked by a mouse (snake had escaped from the cage one night in the winter.. wild mouse found him and chewed on him a bit) and even though he went to the vet right away, he still ended up with septicema. Because he was already started on a course of strong antibiotics he managed to pull through barely - the scarring as it turned out came not from the bite wounds, but from other areas of the body where the infection actually settled in and then that flesh gangrened and rotted off in large chunks.
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