Embee
Gray-bearded Member
What do you do? The kid down the street, whom we know hasn't been taking proper care of his dragon for five years running, stops by and asks if we/my son would like to adopt her...
...for years, we've wanted to get our hands on this poor girl who, thanks to our badgering years ago, has at least had "okay" lighting for a fair amount of that time and has, thus, escaped the horrors of MBD and Keratoconjuctivitis (wish the same could be said for our other rescue, Spike) but who, no thanks to the family down the street, has been starving and dehydrated for most of her life. Her Solar Glo was burned out and he admitted that it was really old--years old. How she has managed to live all this time is a testament to her strength and tenacity. We were, of course, most honored to take her in.
I'll post pics when I get a chance but Medusa is a slight little thing--scrawny, light as a feather, and all the classic signs of dehydration: wrinkles, sunken eyes, etc. I don't know what was more shocking; that she actually drank from a dish, or that she did so for five straight minutes.
Hoping we can put some weight on her (she hasn't been fed bugs in months) and get her hydrated (daily baths for this girl for the foreseeable future) and I feel comfortable in dealing with all that, but here's the thing: her feet are black and her underside looks filthy (her vent and tail, mostly). I think it's the result of walking in filthy, poop-infested Calci-sand for years on end but I'm worried it might be fungus. I'm going to bathe her daily and slowly work on the filth and if she continues to look funky, I'll bring the Betadine/witch hazel/Lamasil combo into play. Does that sound like a reasonable course of action?
We refused to take their cage (just too scary) so I've got her set up in a nice, clean 40 breeder with butcher paper substrate (I'll eventually switch it to tile), a clean basking rock, and, while Princess Cloudy (aka, MuMu) wasn't looking, I swiped his ReptiSun and plopped it atop next to Medusa's basking bulb. New fixture and ReptiSun ordered...
Both our rescues have had completely different issues but both heart-breaking, in any case. We also took on the boy's ball python--female, four years, and looks like our four-year-old male when we first got him from the breeder, at three months old! Oy. But that's a story for another time...
Let's see the running total then is: Dragons 3, Pythons 2. It's getting awfully crowded in this house...
Best,
Em
...for years, we've wanted to get our hands on this poor girl who, thanks to our badgering years ago, has at least had "okay" lighting for a fair amount of that time and has, thus, escaped the horrors of MBD and Keratoconjuctivitis (wish the same could be said for our other rescue, Spike) but who, no thanks to the family down the street, has been starving and dehydrated for most of her life. Her Solar Glo was burned out and he admitted that it was really old--years old. How she has managed to live all this time is a testament to her strength and tenacity. We were, of course, most honored to take her in.
I'll post pics when I get a chance but Medusa is a slight little thing--scrawny, light as a feather, and all the classic signs of dehydration: wrinkles, sunken eyes, etc. I don't know what was more shocking; that she actually drank from a dish, or that she did so for five straight minutes.
Hoping we can put some weight on her (she hasn't been fed bugs in months) and get her hydrated (daily baths for this girl for the foreseeable future) and I feel comfortable in dealing with all that, but here's the thing: her feet are black and her underside looks filthy (her vent and tail, mostly). I think it's the result of walking in filthy, poop-infested Calci-sand for years on end but I'm worried it might be fungus. I'm going to bathe her daily and slowly work on the filth and if she continues to look funky, I'll bring the Betadine/witch hazel/Lamasil combo into play. Does that sound like a reasonable course of action?
We refused to take their cage (just too scary) so I've got her set up in a nice, clean 40 breeder with butcher paper substrate (I'll eventually switch it to tile), a clean basking rock, and, while Princess Cloudy (aka, MuMu) wasn't looking, I swiped his ReptiSun and plopped it atop next to Medusa's basking bulb. New fixture and ReptiSun ordered...
Both our rescues have had completely different issues but both heart-breaking, in any case. We also took on the boy's ball python--female, four years, and looks like our four-year-old male when we first got him from the breeder, at three months old! Oy. But that's a story for another time...
Let's see the running total then is: Dragons 3, Pythons 2. It's getting awfully crowded in this house...
Best,
Em