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Mealies are harder to digest with all the extra chitin...it's a good guess. Locusts could be as well, how big are the legs on them? If the locust legs are attached, the spines on the back can get stuck in the gi tract and create a blockage.

Hi, that's usually a sign he/she has ingested a large food item/and or to much at one time (babies are huge gorgers). So it probably means something is pushing against the spinal cord i believe. First thing to do is to get him soaking in luke warm water right away to help him try and pass...

I was at a different house today, and Bungle was getting the run of the living room and he got into a dust bunny by the heat vent. So i didn't have my fluker eye drops on hand and by the time we got back home, he was fast asleep. He was acting fine and actually holding his eye open, for the...

I'll try and help you in any way I can. My 7 year old beardie has a large tumor right now growing from his liver, and another lump forming by his lower leg that may be impeding the intestine some, not sure yet. Though he has been hanging in there pretty well, these kind of things are hard to...

Hmmm, I'll add onto that, if he is impacted, you have to be very careful with the amount you feed. If it is impaction, syringe feeding is the only way to go to keep him at least hydrated until seeing a vet, like, for his size, no more then one to two ccs. I don't know that you should try to...

The suggestion I've been giving (and was given by a vet years ago) is to go to the store and buy vanilla ensure caloric supplement and some baby food like squash, garden vegetables, or fruit (not spinach, it binds calcium), and mix them to a somewhat runny consistency. I would also mix some...

I will also add that since his last vet visit with the successful enema, he has been much more perky and attentive, looking genuinely happy, so it is my hope that for the time being, the constipation was causing more discomfort then anything, and he'll be able to continue this way with the...

I'm glad you brought up the gout, that was unknown to me prior, so I will keep an eye out for that. I think probably I will make the decision when it just seems like the right time, it could be next week, it could be a month. I guess I also have to realistically look at a way to do it without...

There's a way to make a microwave "warmer" out of a sock and corn huskings (or cherry pits) that you can use to help keep the belly warm. More circulation is good for constipation, but the heat pad is to dangerous and uneven heat wise to use, as you'll probably hear, at all for tanks. I know...

I believe they are looking at the tumor and the mineralized deposits they saw in the CT scan as two seperate conditions. It is also hard to tell if there is any relation due to cancer such as this and even more so, the deposits, being rare and not much being known about them. The tough...

It's a very large tumor, and one of the concerns is that going through surgery they would only fine it inoperable because it is to adhered to organs. It was about the size of a small rubber ball in January, and now is more like one and a half oblong funsize snickers bars (i don't know why my...

Is there a email address through this site or something I could give the doctor this Friday for you Tracie? Thank you.

I just found your posting on gout, and don't see anything like that on him, and didn't on Max. But I'm assuming uric acid counts would be a real possible indicator of something abnormal, so I'll ask specifically about that. Thanks.

I was thinking diet myself, but it's nothing abnormal. Various greens and fruits when he would eat them, and baby food when he wouldn't, some mealworms or crickets occasionally, but I have decided to put him on a liquid diet pretty much for the rest of his life like I did with Max when she was...

Yea, I know how it is, used to be a paycheck to paycheck student myself, you may be able to call around and find someone with a sliding scale or payment option. Did you get him to eat any of the mixture?