Recent content by BDshaggy

As much as I've read on this site, I haven't yet read anything like this: OMG!! He had one MAJOR bowel movement late this afternoon. I am kind of beaming because my husbandry was on queue, I saved him AND I saved myself $150. The little guy was really impacted and after an afternoon outdoors...

I've posted a couple of times around this site about the BD that I got in really bad shape. I've had him now for 12 days and so far no poo. He's had lots of urates and I even see little urine puddles, but just no poo. I've even seen a urate with a piece of lettuce in it. I really hate that...

Is there anyone willing to take on a rescue in the Charlotte, NC area? I am an inexperienced BD owner who was given a malnourished, male, 1 year old last week who has MBD. His needs are way beyond what I can wrap my head around right now and I think a more experienced BD owner can help him...

I guess you can say I rescued an approximate 1 year old BD last week and I'm trying to do my best knowing nothing about them. I have another thread going here in the Health forum about this little guy, but wanted to make a different thread to talk specifically about MBD. He obviously has it...

I am so sad about the MBD. I know the people (not real well) we got him from and it was their preteen's pet, in his room so it doesn't surprise me that he wasn't properly cared for. Thank you so much for all the great advice. I took the plastic cover off the fluorescent (which happens to be...

Here's a couple pics of this cute little guy. Maybe it will explain more and it will FOR SURE let you see that hump/bump on his back I was talking about:

I posted 4 days ago on another BD site because I hadn't found this one. That one proved to be a dud so I am hoping some experienced BD owners from this site can calm my fears, help me and get me pointed in the right direction. This is what I had posted on the other site 4 days ago: So here it...