SpiritScale
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Lowan and I have come to the end of a long, hard road and am sad to say he has a tentative euthanasia appointment scheduled Monday.
To sum it up---he stopped eating, got a distended belly and stopped shedding properly (his skin would look like it was shedding--it just would never come off) when he was about 8-9 months of age (he is now 15 months of age) and since then has basically required daily bathing and force-feedings of both food and water to stay alive. He has not grown at all since then but has put on weight.
He just will not eat on his own however so long as i keep him hydrated and such he is in good shape---the vet says just by looking at him you'd never know he was sick.
Temps, cage size. UV and all that are all up to date and correct, UV (Reptisun 10.0) has been replaced recently.
He has had numerous fecals, xrays, blood panels etc and all were clean. He has been treated with numerous rounds of appetite stimulants, antibiotics, anti-parasites, anti-fungals and many courses of probiotics.
We've tried a little 'tough love' and let him go a couple days without food, we tried changing the feeders...my vet (and every other vet at the clinic) is literally out of ideas.
My health and financial situation has taken a bad turn and I literally do not have the money to keep testing and hoping all the while I know he's miserable because I have to pin him down and force food quite literally down his throat.
I feel like I'm out of options and out of ideas. I wish terribly that there was someone with more money and resources to keep fighting for him (assuming there's anything to be done for him at all).
I guess I just don't know what to do---I've asked around and tried to see if someone would be interested in taking him...but no one will.
To sum it up---he stopped eating, got a distended belly and stopped shedding properly (his skin would look like it was shedding--it just would never come off) when he was about 8-9 months of age (he is now 15 months of age) and since then has basically required daily bathing and force-feedings of both food and water to stay alive. He has not grown at all since then but has put on weight.
He just will not eat on his own however so long as i keep him hydrated and such he is in good shape---the vet says just by looking at him you'd never know he was sick.
Temps, cage size. UV and all that are all up to date and correct, UV (Reptisun 10.0) has been replaced recently.
He has had numerous fecals, xrays, blood panels etc and all were clean. He has been treated with numerous rounds of appetite stimulants, antibiotics, anti-parasites, anti-fungals and many courses of probiotics.
We've tried a little 'tough love' and let him go a couple days without food, we tried changing the feeders...my vet (and every other vet at the clinic) is literally out of ideas.
My health and financial situation has taken a bad turn and I literally do not have the money to keep testing and hoping all the while I know he's miserable because I have to pin him down and force food quite literally down his throat.
I feel like I'm out of options and out of ideas. I wish terribly that there was someone with more money and resources to keep fighting for him (assuming there's anything to be done for him at all).
I guess I just don't know what to do---I've asked around and tried to see if someone would be interested in taking him...but no one will.