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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?

Sure, glad to help, I'll be gone the rest of the night, but if you have any more questions, please ask, I've syringe fed plenty of beardies. Anoles can often have parasites because they're wild caught, and parasites are often something that can lead to a decreased appetite, as they're pretty...

I used to that...and yea, it's not the best idea. The proper way is actually supposed to be by using two hands and kind of using the beard to pull open while holding the head. I've found getting a little food on the tip of the tongue they sometimes open up. By kind of gently wedging the...

Yea, very bad advice. Don't trust people at places like that, and I used to work at Petsmart. You want to make sure they gradually take it down on their own, once you can get him to do the "smacking" sound with his mouth, keep squirting some onto the tip of his tongue or thereof and let him...

Yea, do it about 50/50 or so the texture isn't to mushy or runny. Try and see if you can put a little drop on his "nose" and get him to kind of taste it. Then I usually put give them the tip (make sure they don't bite it off!) and give about a cc at a time. Then usually they get the idea of...

One thing to do is to buy a syringe and mix ensure vanilla calorie drink with baby food like vegetable/turkey combos or fruit and what not. It's a good way to make sure he's getting calcium too, because you can mix the powder right in with the food. My beardie went cold for like 4 months when...