EllenD":2h55a7di said:LOL, I just wanted to check in to see how he was doing and I was just in time for the "Big Poo"...it's big! I bet that this whole not pooping thing is related to him not moving around at all, the more they move the more they poop. So just laying around is allowing everything to just sit inside his intestines. Poor guy. He's been through the ringer, that's for sure.
You've been doing an awesome job with him, that was a horrible fracture he had, and a slow recovery for sure. I think he's going to be fine, that was just a nasty, nasty femur fracture. Considering it's only been a month he's actually doing quite well, usually 6 weeks is a minimum for even a small fracture to heal, so a displaced femur fracture like that is definitely a 2-3 month healing period. So you're doing great!
He's extremely lucky that you're his mother, let me tell you, had this happened to a lot of other baby dragons they would have been trying to find "home remedies" for a femur fracture, no joke...
SHBailey":27q474im said:It seems perfectly normal to me that your beardie would go to sleep when the sun goes down, especially if you don't have a lot of other artificial light in the room where he's hanging out. Bearded dragons are diurnal (most of them hard core diurnal), and they're all about heat and light. Our beardie settles right down and goes to sleep almost immediately when we turn his lights out for the night, either right on his basking platform where he has already spent most of his day, or cuddled up with us in front of the TV if the light in the rest of the room is relatively dim. In our case we keep the lights on 12 hours a day year round, but his tank is near our largest windows facing west and south, so he's probably well aware of the seasonal changes, and it's a little harder to get him to settle down in the summer when we have the "midnight sun."
It also sounds like Kevin may be settling into a pattern of a longer interval between poops as the "new normal." The same thing also happened with our beardie -- he was approximately a year old when we got him, and he was pooping every day, but then it got fewer and farther between up until he's been known to go for up to two weeks without a poop, and still be apparently fine. I've canceled a number of tentative vet appointments with, "Never mind. We got a poop." Just one more of the many ways that bearded dragons have for driving their human slaves crazy. :roll:
SHBailey":1ego149r said:I just noticed that you're in South Florida -- that explains how you can hang out in a garage with a beardie this time of year. Here in Alaska in January, it's hard to imagine it ever being warm enough to take a beardie outside -- that only happens around here on a few days once in a while in the middle of the summer, and that's on a good year.
Obsessing about poop is an occupational hazard for beardie slaves -- especially relatively new ones. Eventually you may be able to get to where you're not too surprised by anything that comes out of a bearded dragon's rear end, but it will probably always be an issue one way or the other. :wink:
I usually send my husband to the pet store for crickets and roaches, since I don't drive anymore anyway, so most of the time I don't have to see the baby beardies and want to take them all home, but fortunately, our local pet stores around here seem to be pretty good at taking care of their critters, or at least not as bad as some of the horror stories I've heard where people have felt like they have to buy them in order to rescue them from the store.
Yes, bearded dragons are addictive, but you're wise to wait until you see how it goes with the new human baby before you seriously consider getting another beardie. You may find that you're maxed out with what you already have. My husband and I found out the hard way that we function optimally as a one reptile family (including the beardie's little entourage of live bugs), and we don't even have any human children. :roll:
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