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Been a few days since Spike’s last check and improvements are easily visible. He also doesn’t really need the Tramidol much at all anymore so I’ve cut back to just giving him a dose when he seems like he needs it which has really only been 1 day over the past 3 weeks. I’ve added some side by...

He’s still continuing to make improvements both with the inflammation mass and the bump on the other side of his jaw. His activity levels are increasing and he hasn’t really needed pain relief much at all lately which is great. I think I’ve mentioned before that he now has difficulty walking on...

Spike had his follow up yesterday to determine whether it’s worth continuing the antibiotics and pain relief or if he may need an X-ray and consideration to put to sleep if things aren’t improving. Well. He’s done it again. A 180 from this maybe being his last year to being on the mend. The...

I’m sorry to hear about your guy. I know how hard it is to have one go out of nowhere and not know why. Now I’m no vet but I do have experience with a few different issues since I take in rescue dragons. What you’ve described with his behaviour and the sounds does lead me toward respiratory...

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Ok so it’s been a couple days since he’s started the antibiotics and pain relief again and from what I can see it does look like there’s improvements. The oral mass he has is definitely a less nasty color, it looks to be shrinking and there’s less slimy discharge from it. The bump in his jaw...

Spike had a pretty good day today. He was awake for a good amount of time, ate some zucchini, had his antibiotic injection and pain relief then we sat outside in the sunshine until he wanted to go back inside. I figured with the strong pain relief he’d want to have a sleep so I put him back on...

Nah the first pic of the one on the lobster print bed is Spike and the second pic with the one in my arm is Apollo. Just goes to show how big Apollo is that at 1 year old you can easily assume he’s my 11+ year old

Spike just had his annual checkup for this year. I booked him a couple weeks earlier than I’d usually do because I’ll have a busy April this year (coincidently this was also little Apollo’s first ever vet visit) Spike is currently of concern to us because he has a bit going on unfortunately...

O Oh for sure. My first two dragons were rescues who came from a situation like that so I’ve seen first hand how bad things can get if someone doesn’t know what they’re doing and the fact that there wasn’t much easy to understand beginner friendly care information about beardies out there and...

I just made them from stuff I picked up from the hardware store here to it’s stiff wire mesh panels that I cut to what size I had planned and I used thick wire I coiled to secure the panels together and I used some brackets, bolts and wingnuts for securing two sides. I made them that way so that...

He’s settled in really well now and has done quite a bit of shedding. His colors are really coming through and he’s still a climber who loves his greens. I’ve yet to try him with anything he hasn’t liked. He’s happy being handled now and I’ve progressed him to indoor roaming time which he’s...

Sure thing. Here’s the dropbox link to the lesson notes. This course consisted of two lesson modules with one being reptile zoology and the other being zookeeping so within this folder is two more folders that each contain the notes for each module. Link

Oh hey same! I’ve recently been getting more into mineral collecting myself and we’ve got some great locations over here for minerals and such. Actually tried my hand the other day at shaping a rough bit of lapis into a piece for a pendant which turned out great so like you for me my big...

@xp29 @ChileanTaco Just called the course place and got the costs for you. This is all in Australian dollars so you’d have to take a look at that in your currency but Aussie dollars are tbh pretty **** in relation to most other currencies (save New Zealand dollars) so I know in USD definitely...

Yeah he’s definitely an inspiration and a hell of a fighter. With all he’s been through there was never a stage where he acted like he wanted to give up and I’m definitely hopeful that sharing his journey with everything can get more awareness and hope out there for others facing similar...

Got a message this morning from the surgeon who worked on Spike for his chromatophoroma asking how he was going and letting me know that it’ll likely be toward the end of this year the article about his case gets written. He also mentioned that it would be in either Journal of the American...

I went through this with my first rescue beardie. I can definitely say that it’s not uncommon for them to need more than one course to clear up a issue like this so that could very well be the case here. Enclosure hygeine is very important for helping get rid of this and avoid reoccurrence in...

Sure thing. I’ll take a look at that for you tomorrow. If does end up being too pricey but you really wanna take a look I know I have all the lesson notes saved so I could bundle those up and give you a link to them so at the very least you’ll part of it to go through.

@ChileanTaco @xp29 so I contacted the place I went through for the herpetology/reptile zoology course and they have said if you’re interested they can likely arrange enrollment. For me a big draw of this course was that it’s self paced and can be done entirely online with your assignments...