Last Sunday I rescued this little girl( not sure, but I think she is a she). Thanks to help from a network of beardie lovers I have her safe and sound at my place. She has gained 13 grams in 1 week. This is the picture they posted on craigslist to sale her. I was told she is 1 1/2 years old. She is only 13" long and weighed in at 125 grams.
I didn't have contact with the people, I just met them and got her. This is what happened at the vets yesterday.
Ok, so here goes, going to be a long post. I hope I can remember everything about the visit. The minute the vet seen her the horrible look on his face told me he has never seen a beardie in the shape she is in. I told him she is better then what she was when I picked her up. She has gained 13 grams in a week which he liked. He was amazed at that. I told him everything I have been doing and what I have been feeding her and he said it was spot on. In the mean time little Cassie was making her way around the table really fast, using her legs more then when I picked her up on Sunday. He dosed the liquid calcium for her that I had at home, so I will start on that tonight. We decided to do an x-ray, no way around it. He looked her over and I showed him the lump on her back. They took her back and got the x-ray taken and came back to get me so we could look at it. He was just amazed she is still alive. He has never seen a beardie with MBD this bad. I knew it was bad but after seeing the x-ray and we went over it one bone at a time, I really don't know how she survived this long. Her front legs we couldn't tell if they were broken or just deformed because of the MBD, all of her ribs are fractured, the lump is a rib as far as we can tell, she has no bone left in her pelvic area. He is surprised she can even poop, back legs don't look to bad, but still bad. So the plan is keep doing what I am doing adding the liquid calcium, and all the other stuff I syringe feed her, give her roaches 3 times a week, very small ones since her jaws are like rubber and she can't chew them up like she should, I don't want her to swallow them and choke. I need to raise her floor in her tank to make sure she gets the heat like she should. I want to raise her temps up a little more. Cassie is a little miracle that shouldn't even be alive right now, but she is and she came to me for a reason and I will do everything in my power to make her as well as can be. We are taking it one day at a time and see how she does. The vet said the arthritis later one might do her in, but we will deal with that when/if it happens. right now both her and I will fight to the end to keep her as healthy as can be. She is way more active today then when I got her so I must be doing something right for her, and she shows the improvements too.
Pictures of her a few days to a week later.
This s a picture taken today, 1 week later.
I didn't have contact with the people, I just met them and got her. This is what happened at the vets yesterday.
Ok, so here goes, going to be a long post. I hope I can remember everything about the visit. The minute the vet seen her the horrible look on his face told me he has never seen a beardie in the shape she is in. I told him she is better then what she was when I picked her up. She has gained 13 grams in a week which he liked. He was amazed at that. I told him everything I have been doing and what I have been feeding her and he said it was spot on. In the mean time little Cassie was making her way around the table really fast, using her legs more then when I picked her up on Sunday. He dosed the liquid calcium for her that I had at home, so I will start on that tonight. We decided to do an x-ray, no way around it. He looked her over and I showed him the lump on her back. They took her back and got the x-ray taken and came back to get me so we could look at it. He was just amazed she is still alive. He has never seen a beardie with MBD this bad. I knew it was bad but after seeing the x-ray and we went over it one bone at a time, I really don't know how she survived this long. Her front legs we couldn't tell if they were broken or just deformed because of the MBD, all of her ribs are fractured, the lump is a rib as far as we can tell, she has no bone left in her pelvic area. He is surprised she can even poop, back legs don't look to bad, but still bad. So the plan is keep doing what I am doing adding the liquid calcium, and all the other stuff I syringe feed her, give her roaches 3 times a week, very small ones since her jaws are like rubber and she can't chew them up like she should, I don't want her to swallow them and choke. I need to raise her floor in her tank to make sure she gets the heat like she should. I want to raise her temps up a little more. Cassie is a little miracle that shouldn't even be alive right now, but she is and she came to me for a reason and I will do everything in my power to make her as well as can be. We are taking it one day at a time and see how she does. The vet said the arthritis later one might do her in, but we will deal with that when/if it happens. right now both her and I will fight to the end to keep her as healthy as can be. She is way more active today then when I got her so I must be doing something right for her, and she shows the improvements too.
Pictures of her a few days to a week later.
This s a picture taken today, 1 week later.