dolphinsilversea01
Juvie Member
Recently I discovered a very small beardie at my work. It was in the "Wellness Room" due to having a very swollen and infected eye, and also being very small, dehydrated, and weak.
Our store vet, who by the way does not know much about reptiles and sometimes even has to "go home and look that up online and let us know later", has been treating the eye with medication twice a day. I do not know what the mdication is called right now, but can post the name later after I pick the beardie up.
A few days ago when I discovered this cutie, I noticed that he was getting worse and worse. I called the store manager and was very surprised when she agreed to let me take him home for the night so that I could soak him and give him repti-care, critical-care, vitamins, and give him some soaks throughout the night. I brought him home and placed him in a little container nice and close to a uvb since he had not had uvb on him for three days while he was in the wellness room!!!
After just a couple of hours of the above he quickly perked up and went from being non-responsive to being a perky and quite enteraining little guy.
I had to return him the next day, but later found out that the vet said there would be no way petco could sell him so my manager called me up and said if I wanted to take him he is mine! Of course I want to take him!! I gotta try and do what I can for the little guy and see that he at least has a shot at life!!
I am picking him up later today. I am going to take him to a reptile specialist in about a week.
P.S. After finding out that they were not keeping a uvb on the beardies that were in wellness for being ill , which makes no sense to me since they need it to process calcium and other nutrients!! I gave my manager an extra fixture and uvb bulb that I had and told her she is to start using it in the wellness room - if not I would report this problem to anyone and everyone I could. Glad to say the beardies in wellness now receive proper uvb and are actually doing much better!! Now who woulda thunk it ya know??!!
Below you will find some pics I took of him while he stayed the night with me.... If you can help me out with anything else I could do to help this little guy, or you by chance have seen this before and know what may be wrong, please let me know!! The pics show his small size, how dehydrated he obviously is (but you can tell he gets better), bumps that were said to just be "growths" on his back, and then his poor infected little eye. I personally think that maybe he got scratched by another beardie and it just didn't get treated so it got really bad.
Thanks =)
Our store vet, who by the way does not know much about reptiles and sometimes even has to "go home and look that up online and let us know later", has been treating the eye with medication twice a day. I do not know what the mdication is called right now, but can post the name later after I pick the beardie up.
A few days ago when I discovered this cutie, I noticed that he was getting worse and worse. I called the store manager and was very surprised when she agreed to let me take him home for the night so that I could soak him and give him repti-care, critical-care, vitamins, and give him some soaks throughout the night. I brought him home and placed him in a little container nice and close to a uvb since he had not had uvb on him for three days while he was in the wellness room!!!
After just a couple of hours of the above he quickly perked up and went from being non-responsive to being a perky and quite enteraining little guy.
I had to return him the next day, but later found out that the vet said there would be no way petco could sell him so my manager called me up and said if I wanted to take him he is mine! Of course I want to take him!! I gotta try and do what I can for the little guy and see that he at least has a shot at life!!
I am picking him up later today. I am going to take him to a reptile specialist in about a week.
P.S. After finding out that they were not keeping a uvb on the beardies that were in wellness for being ill
, which makes no sense to me since they need it to process calcium and other nutrients!! I gave my manager an extra fixture and uvb bulb that I had and told her she is to start using it in the wellness room - if not I would report this problem to anyone and everyone I could. Glad to say the beardies in wellness now receive proper uvb and are actually doing much better!! Now who woulda thunk it ya know??!!Below you will find some pics I took of him while he stayed the night with me.... If you can help me out with anything else I could do to help this little guy, or you by chance have seen this before and know what may be wrong, please let me know!! The pics show his small size, how dehydrated he obviously is (but you can tell he gets better), bumps that were said to just be "growths" on his back, and then his poor infected little eye. I personally think that maybe he got scratched by another beardie and it just didn't get treated so it got really bad.
Thanks =)
