Claudiusx":13nhwtxf said:Hi there,
I have almost exclusively dunners, and can say that throat thing is a myth for sure. In fact, the one dragon I have who isn't a dunner is the one who holds food in her throat. All the others dont.
Holding food in the throat has nothing to do with morph from what I've seen, more so the individual dragon, or as a cause of something in the environment. Moro, the dragon of mine I'm speaking of, didn't start holding her food in her throat until she aspirated water one time in the bath and nearly drowned herself because of it. Ever since then, she stored food in her throat.
If your dragon is making weird throat movements, it could simply be getting ready to shed. They often puff out their beards and jaw area to help loosen the skin. But, if there is also discharge from the mouth, it can be indicative of an RI.
And lastly, there is no reason a dunner needs to be reserved to more advanced keepers. Their care is the same.
-Brandon
Claudiusx":2skewuqk said:Hi there,
I have almost exclusively dunners, and can say that throat thing is a myth for sure. In fact, the one dragon I have who isn't a dunner is the one who holds food in her throat. All the others dont.
Holding food in the throat has nothing to do with morph from what I've seen, more so the individual dragon, or as a cause of something in the environment. Moro, the dragon of mine I'm speaking of, didn't start holding her food in her throat until she aspirated water one time in the bath and nearly drowned herself because of it. Ever since then, she stored food in her throat.
If your dragon is making weird throat movements, it could simply be getting ready to shed. They often puff out their beards and jaw area to help loosen the skin. But, if there is also discharge from the mouth, it can be indicative of an RI.
And lastly, there is no reason a dunner needs to be reserved to more advanced keepers. Their care is the same.
-Brandon
Claudiusx":1ys3gws3 said:He looks a lot like Tombo did when he was a baby, did you buy Rango from Kidsanddragons?
-Brandon
Claudiusx":2yafp0ns said:Did his head/face shed during this full body shed?
It actually looks like his nostril is blocked, full of shed. Sounds odd, but they do shed the inside of their nostrils too lol. That could be him either just breathing through his mouth because of the plugged nose, or him trying to put pressure through his nose to pop it out. It doesn't look like behavior of an RI to me, but more so a mix of blocked nostril, and face shed coming up.
-Brandon
Claudiusx":3tbndeyu said:Ah, so Tombo is Rango's uncle HAHA
Wrangler was Tombos dad.
Here is Tombo as a baby:
A little older:
Little older still:
And him pretty much now:
He switches between being really "blue" and his blue bars being really dark, almost black like this:
His blue bars are definitely not as good as wranglers were, but I also haven't tried really very well to capture it like he did with Wrangler in a picture
-Brandon
Claudiusx":1kab67gl said:Look at that, family reunited haha.
Yeah, poor boy definitely had a rough shed. If he is rubbing his face, he definitely is either trying to clear his nose, or he still has more shedding to do on his face. Hopefully the rest of his face shed will pull out the nose plugs. There isn't much you can do when the plug is still deep in the nose like that. When it starts to stick out you can gently pull it, it's the only time I ever suggest helping a dragon shed and that's only if the blockage is obviously bothering him.
But for now, not much you can do. They evolved to be able to handle the shedding process so he should be fine. However if you actually start seeing a discharge from his mouth, you might need to look into the possibility of an RI more closely. But at this point, it all looks shed related to me.
Rango definitely has some good quality blue bar to him, will be cool to see how he grows! Tombo didn't have as much blue bar, but his blue bar was really really blue in person and still is on occasion. I'll have to try to get a picture of him today to show what he looks like essentially full grown.
-Brandon
Claudiusx":1g0g3g85 said:Wow rangos dad is quite the looker too. I was hoping Tombo would end up looking like that, but looks like he held back the cream of the crop for himself! haha.
-Brandon
Tanyalove666":1gtbcb7k said:I recorded the weird breathing and uploaded to imgur
https://imgur.com/a/U2KVJKJ
Claudiusx":1gtbcb7k said:Hi there,
I have almost exclusively dunners, and can say that throat thing is a myth for sure. In fact, the one dragon I have who isn't a dunner is the one who holds food in her throat. All the others dont.
Holding food in the throat has nothing to do with morph from what I've seen, more so the individual dragon, or as a cause of something in the environment. Moro, the dragon of mine I'm speaking of, didn't start holding her food in her throat until she aspirated water one time in the bath and nearly drowned herself because of it. Ever since then, she stored food in her throat.
If your dragon is making weird throat movements, it could simply be getting ready to shed. They often puff out their beards and jaw area to help loosen the skin. But, if there is also discharge from the mouth, it can be indicative of an RI.
And lastly, there is no reason a dunner needs to be reserved to more advanced keepers. Their care is the same.
-Brandon
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