WE LOST OUR LITTLE SPARKY. WE HAD A HEALTHY 3 MONTH OLD DRAGON WHO HAD BEEN CHECKED OUT BY AN EXOTIC PET VET AND HAD STOOL SAMPLE. WE PURCHASED HIM FROM A VERY GOOD REPTILE AND BIRD PET SHOP AND BOUGHT THE LIGHTING, VITAMINS AND MINERALS, AND DUSTED THE CRICKETS, USED 'GUT LOADING' FOR THE CRICKETS. THE VET SAID THAT OUR HOUSING WAS FINE. ROCKY BECAME UNWELL AND DIED VERY SUDDENLY. WE THEN BOUGHT LITTLE SPARKY, SEEMED YOUNGER THAN ROCKY HAD BEEN BUT WE TOOK HIM TO THE VET AND HE SEEMED HEALTHY ALTHOUGH HIS STOOL GREW PINWORMS AND COCCIDIA. WE WERE TREATING HIM WITH THE ANTI-PARASITE MEDICATIONS (SEQUENTIALLY AS PRESCRIBED BY VET). A FEW DAYS AGO SPARKY'S APPETITE WAS POOR BUT HE WAS ACTIVE, ALERT AND POOPING. SUNDAY HE SUDDENLY BECAME WEAK AND LISTLESS. WE IMMEDIATELY TOOK HIM TO THE ANIMAL HOSPITAL. HE WAS EXAMINED AND ADMITTED FOR EVALUATION. THE EXOTIC PET VET SAID THAT HIS PROGNOSIS WAS VERY VERY POOR AND WE DECIDED TO HAVE HIM PUT TO SLEEP AND THE VET AGREED THAT THIS WAS THE RIGHT THING.
THE VET REVIEWED WITH US OUR LIGHTING, ETC AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DID WRONG BUT WILL GET ANOTHER, THIS TIME FROM A PLACE THAT BREEDS THEM AND WE WILL GET ONE SLIGHTLY OLDER. THE ONLY THING THAT WE DO DIFFERENTLY IS WE WILL NOT USE THE SUBSTRATE THE ORIGINAL PET SHOP OWNER HAD RECOMMENDED. IT SAID THAT IT WAS MEANT FOR REPTILES, WAS SAFE AND DIGESTIBLE AND EVEN CALLED REPTISAND OR SOMETHING SIMILAR.
WE WERE REALLY FOND OF THESE LITTLE FELLOWS AND THAT IS WHY WE STILL PLAN TO GET ANOTHER.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY THOUGHTS?
KAREN
THE VET REVIEWED WITH US OUR LIGHTING, ETC AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DID WRONG BUT WILL GET ANOTHER, THIS TIME FROM A PLACE THAT BREEDS THEM AND WE WILL GET ONE SLIGHTLY OLDER. THE ONLY THING THAT WE DO DIFFERENTLY IS WE WILL NOT USE THE SUBSTRATE THE ORIGINAL PET SHOP OWNER HAD RECOMMENDED. IT SAID THAT IT WAS MEANT FOR REPTILES, WAS SAFE AND DIGESTIBLE AND EVEN CALLED REPTISAND OR SOMETHING SIMILAR.
WE WERE REALLY FOND OF THESE LITTLE FELLOWS AND THAT IS WHY WE STILL PLAN TO GET ANOTHER.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY THOUGHTS?
KAREN