HippieLizards
Gray-bearded Member
- Beardie name(s)
- Daisy, Loki, Rocket, Phoenix, Mulder & Scully. Non beardie pets: Stan (Leo) Cayde (Hognose) Tillery (cat)
So my newest dragon I rescued last night has got some pretty bad MBD deformities. See this post as it explains it in more detail: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=251364#p1904418
But basically a lot of his limbs his are pretty deformed.
His arms are especially really deformed compared to a normal beardie's arms. They're kind of like Popeye the sailor's arms if I had to describe them. Because they're just like really huge forearms and small upper arms because the bones obviously had Severe MBD at some point but then they hardened again and formed like that, So his arms are Super weird.
View media item 60476View media item 61118 Left arm.
View media item 61118View media item 60673 Right arm.
The photos don't show how they really are all that well unfortunately.
Next is his spine. There's a really weird bump on his spine where you can feel there's a bit of a dip in his hips from where his spine connects to his tail, it feels super weird because normal beardies don't have that at all, and it worries me because the bump is hard on one side and soft on another and the scales are misshapen, so that worries me, what could it be? A cyst? Tumor? I don't know. ?
He's a lot more different than Thor than I thought, but sorta in a good way. He's a LOT more mobile than Thor was and thankfully he gets around really well. It just seems his back legs are locked up and so he limps on one leg and drags his back end and legs. But thankfully he can get most of his stomach off the ground and his front end completely up, which is good.
I'm scheduling an appointment with my vet for him sometime this week and I'm planning to get some X rays to see what exactly is going on.
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But I'm not exactly sure of what I should do yet. Or if there is anything I can do, Any advice would be greatly appreciated because I've never Had a dragon like this. He acts like a normal dragon but also not. It's weird. :|
Thankfully behavioral wise he's pretty normal, not the biggest fan of cuddling so far but he's getting more used to it. He struts around head bobbing acting like he's the boss, which is fun. He isn't eating his salad at all though and has trouble grabbing food because his jaw has a major underbite it seems, His jaw is just very oddly shaped.
But really anything I try to do he will not eat his salad. He ate a few dubias and a super worm just fine and eagerly though.
View media item 61095View media item 60600View media item 61091 Mulder seems to love blankets though.
Thank you in advance for any tips or advice,
-HippieLizards.
But basically a lot of his limbs his are pretty deformed.
His arms are especially really deformed compared to a normal beardie's arms. They're kind of like Popeye the sailor's arms if I had to describe them. Because they're just like really huge forearms and small upper arms because the bones obviously had Severe MBD at some point but then they hardened again and formed like that, So his arms are Super weird.
View media item 60476View media item 61118 Left arm.
View media item 61118View media item 60673 Right arm.
The photos don't show how they really are all that well unfortunately.
Next is his spine. There's a really weird bump on his spine where you can feel there's a bit of a dip in his hips from where his spine connects to his tail, it feels super weird because normal beardies don't have that at all, and it worries me because the bump is hard on one side and soft on another and the scales are misshapen, so that worries me, what could it be? A cyst? Tumor? I don't know. ?
He's a lot more different than Thor than I thought, but sorta in a good way. He's a LOT more mobile than Thor was and thankfully he gets around really well. It just seems his back legs are locked up and so he limps on one leg and drags his back end and legs. But thankfully he can get most of his stomach off the ground and his front end completely up, which is good.
I'm scheduling an appointment with my vet for him sometime this week and I'm planning to get some X rays to see what exactly is going on.
View media item 61052View media item 60897View media item 60935View media item 61069View media item 60853View media item 60402
But I'm not exactly sure of what I should do yet. Or if there is anything I can do, Any advice would be greatly appreciated because I've never Had a dragon like this. He acts like a normal dragon but also not. It's weird. :|
Thankfully behavioral wise he's pretty normal, not the biggest fan of cuddling so far but he's getting more used to it. He struts around head bobbing acting like he's the boss, which is fun. He isn't eating his salad at all though and has trouble grabbing food because his jaw has a major underbite it seems, His jaw is just very oddly shaped.
But really anything I try to do he will not eat his salad. He ate a few dubias and a super worm just fine and eagerly though.
View media item 61095View media item 60600View media item 61091 Mulder seems to love blankets though.
Thank you in advance for any tips or advice,
-HippieLizards.