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Is my dragon saying goodbye?
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[QUOTE="neverwhere10, post: 1997038, member: 115672"] So I have/had two dragons, this is our story: The first dragon I got was a baby male captive-bred and I had it for around 1 year or so before someone asked me to take on their adult female beardy because they were moving. She was a lone captive-bred beardy around 6-7 years old. I kept them apart at first and let them interact on the floor once in a while until they became friendly. I then moved them in to a large cage together. They seemed to love it. The younger male was very cuddly and the older female was accepting but let him know when he was too much. They never mated, or looked liked they tried. When that time came around she was very assertive with a NO to his advances and he submitted without a fight. They got along for 3 years before my younger male beardy died from unknown causes. I just found him straight and stiff one morning during feeding. Since that day, the older female beardy, about 10-11 years old now, has refused to eat anything. Usually she loved her greens and the occasional worms but now closes her eyes to anything I offer her. She won't eat things I leave in her cage either. She won't drink and has a large in-set water dish she used to bathe and drink in. She chooses her cold side of the cage and just sits under her hide constantly. Unless I pick her up and give her some loves. I set her back down on the hot side and she moves back to the cold side again. The hot side basking spot is 90-95f, the cold side 70-75f... nothing out of their usual. I have tried picking her up and holding her a few times a week to try and get her to interact but she still refuses to interact or eat. She does not respond to our normal interactions. She closes her eyes to food and keeps her head raised like she's just wants to ignore me and sleep to death. I know depression, and this kills me. This is all far from her normal brumation behavior, plus it's the middle of a hot summer. I feel like the younger male beardy's death triggered her in to her end-of-life process. Since the younger male beardy has passed she seems to have given up on life and only wants to sit until she expires. She doesn't even seem to like typical petting/stroking. She has lost enough weight that the surrounding spiky area around her torso is flappy and a few mm's thick of loose skin. She has finally had a bowel movement two days ago that I witnessed, it was wet and healthy looking so I'm not worried about her hydration or food. ........ Is my beardy saying GoodBye? Thank You. [/QUOTE]
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