Okay, as promised here are some images. For the record, I have not confirmed if this is a male or a female just yet. For now, I'm just going to call it a he since that's what I was told. When he begins to recover, I'll find out for sure. In the meantime I'll figure out another name if he's a boy. I don't know why, but Moose just keeps throwing itself in front of my brain. Looking at him in person it makes sense as he is HUGE. If it's a girl, uh... it still might be Moose, but I'm partial to Kiki too.
This is "Mr. Bean" shortly after receiving him. I rolled my window down and let him soak up some sunlight on our way home. You can kind of see on his head where his fat pads aren't that plump. His weight is something of an illusion. When you pick him up, his belly collapses and you can feel how frail and delicate he is. I'm so afraid of hurting him as a result.
Close up of his face. He has a lot of scale sores and dark spots all over him.
This is only a small area under his tail where his feces was so thick it was falling off. There was a giant clump that shook loose in his tub coming home and much more when I gave him a
bath later on today.
The giant bump near his eye. Near as I can tell, it hasn't impaired his vision any. He can still focus on things but it definitely obscures him looking forward. Which might impact his hunting abilities when catching live feeders.
This doesn't even come close to utter disgusting mess clinging to this guy's belly and tail. It's probably going to take several baths to finally get it all off.
After his
bath, I dried him off and gave him a syringe of some squash baby food. He ate until it was all gone, then I wiped up the mess and put him in his new cage. It's bare bones right now but with his limited mobility it's for the best.
http://youtu.be/EjkYD4nNakI
I do apologize but I do drop a swear word in this. It um... rhymes with "ram".
I don't know if we are permitted to use it on this board I know we try and keep swearing under control for the PG rating. I was just so frustrated and it took me a lot of self control not to drop a lot more expletives during that
bath. I will pull it if the mods want.
Anyway, I wasn't able to film him just shortly after this footage. He got so enthusiastic about the water he hoisted himself up and shoved his nose into the drain as if to submerge his face. I had to pull him up and out so he didn't breath in the water trickling out of the faucet just over his head. Also, after he was done
drinking he lifted his head up and started jerking it back and forth under the trickling water. At first I thought he was attempting to get away from it until he starting wriggling his whole body back and forth, swishing the water around, then starting splashing himself with his front feet. I started crying when I saw this. Even though he was gasping for breath near the end from exertion, he was enjoying his soak very much.
So far he's kept the water and food down. Tomorrow I'm going to make a run for some chicken baby food and grab a few more syringes. I see people giving really dehydrated beardies pedialite.. do you think I should pick him up some too?