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Basking 110°
Hot side 95°
Cool side 85°
As support he's also having a CHE at night at 95° w/ thermostat
Kazoozles is a two year old, male dunner leatherback. He has a history of multiple upper respiratory iinfections with his previous owner. When he came to me, Aug of 2014, he had a concerning episode that resembled a URI. A culture and it came back negative. However, he was positive for coccidia and pin worms. We treated those. Additionally, he had some bloody stools that we attributed to the parasites, specifically the coccidia. His appetite was fine. He was not lethargic.
Kaz semibrumated through a few winter months, getting up to eat, poop, have a bath, spend a few days active then go back to bed. Some of those poops were still bloody. The vet suggested a switch from dubia to soft bodied worms. I could not get appropriately sized silkworms, so Kaz was a lucky boy and nommed a lot of hornworms. He also had an appetite for collard greens.
This spring he got up like usual and hadn't post more than a few grams. He was active and eating. He would drink during baths and would eat his veggies.
Around August of this year I weighed him. He was still in the same general range at 479 grams. As of now he is down to 428. During the summer he tested as positive again for coccidia, though he had tested negative. The vet says that the lifecycle means that sometimes they aren't shedding the coccidia needed to show as positive. Anyway, we saw that as an explanation for some bloody stools he'd had lately. He was reteeeted and fed soft hornworms again.
Fast forward, he'd been healthy but becoming lethargic and with a lower appetite. I attributed that to the season as he was normal otherwise. He had an incident last week where he was behaving like he had a URI. I took him to the vet I Thursday, the 5th. The vet ran a gram stain. I admit to being under educated on those, but he said it was fine. I took Kaz home.
Around 2am I find he was ballooning, had a pressed up posture and was in what seemed to be breathing distress. I took him to an emergency vet who took xrays. They showed spots along his left side. The vet there actually had no idea what they were. She told me honestly that she hadn't the experience. Truthfully? They looked like eggs, except Kaz is definitely male.
Fast forward, I took Kaz to another emergnecy vet (different clinic) the next day because he was REALLY failing. While there he was jutting his chin, air chewing and tonguing his mouth. I leaned him down at a slight angle and patted his back gently for a few minutes. He vomited several tablespoons of undigested greens and roach parts. He had not eaten roaches since October 28, and he hadn't been really eating greens either. Before the vomit he was 459 grams. He was down to 434 after.
The vet told me that she had no idea what to do. She actually didn't even charge for our visit. I called, at this point, every regular exotics/herp vet in the city of Pittsburgh and surrounding area as well as all three of the exotic servicing emergency vets. My regular vet does not have Friday hours. I even called a clinic three hours away in Ohio.
So, fast forward again. Kaz was seen yesterday by an extremely hard to reach specialist vet. They dis an ultrasound of the liver. It is normal sized, but those spots are all through it. The vet actually REALLY thought they looked like eggs. Kaz doesn't habe any distinctly pronounced hemipenes. If you look at his tail base you'd think he were female, based on the visual. However, if you shine a light then he has hemipenes. They're very short.
The vet didn't see them as three dimensional, so he ruled out masses, polyps, tumors etc. He biopsied one and ran some slides. They turned our to be abscesses. He believes they're bacterial, viral or protozoal. He's severely anemic. His prognosis is poor.
At this point I am giving Kaz an injection of cefazolin twice a day for 3 days then for 21 more. He's also receiving oral flagyl once a day. I'm also tube feeding him once a day. He's getting AD cat food thinned with water. I'm adding bee pollen, B12, calcium/magnesium, serrepetase and a vitamin supplement.
That's everything I've learned, done and am doing.... Any other thoughts?
Basking 110°
Hot side 95°
Cool side 85°
As support he's also having a CHE at night at 95° w/ thermostat
Kazoozles is a two year old, male dunner leatherback. He has a history of multiple upper respiratory iinfections with his previous owner. When he came to me, Aug of 2014, he had a concerning episode that resembled a URI. A culture and it came back negative. However, he was positive for coccidia and pin worms. We treated those. Additionally, he had some bloody stools that we attributed to the parasites, specifically the coccidia. His appetite was fine. He was not lethargic.
Kaz semibrumated through a few winter months, getting up to eat, poop, have a bath, spend a few days active then go back to bed. Some of those poops were still bloody. The vet suggested a switch from dubia to soft bodied worms. I could not get appropriately sized silkworms, so Kaz was a lucky boy and nommed a lot of hornworms. He also had an appetite for collard greens.
This spring he got up like usual and hadn't post more than a few grams. He was active and eating. He would drink during baths and would eat his veggies.
Around August of this year I weighed him. He was still in the same general range at 479 grams. As of now he is down to 428. During the summer he tested as positive again for coccidia, though he had tested negative. The vet says that the lifecycle means that sometimes they aren't shedding the coccidia needed to show as positive. Anyway, we saw that as an explanation for some bloody stools he'd had lately. He was reteeeted and fed soft hornworms again.
Fast forward, he'd been healthy but becoming lethargic and with a lower appetite. I attributed that to the season as he was normal otherwise. He had an incident last week where he was behaving like he had a URI. I took him to the vet I Thursday, the 5th. The vet ran a gram stain. I admit to being under educated on those, but he said it was fine. I took Kaz home.
Around 2am I find he was ballooning, had a pressed up posture and was in what seemed to be breathing distress. I took him to an emergency vet who took xrays. They showed spots along his left side. The vet there actually had no idea what they were. She told me honestly that she hadn't the experience. Truthfully? They looked like eggs, except Kaz is definitely male.
Fast forward, I took Kaz to another emergnecy vet (different clinic) the next day because he was REALLY failing. While there he was jutting his chin, air chewing and tonguing his mouth. I leaned him down at a slight angle and patted his back gently for a few minutes. He vomited several tablespoons of undigested greens and roach parts. He had not eaten roaches since October 28, and he hadn't been really eating greens either. Before the vomit he was 459 grams. He was down to 434 after.
The vet told me that she had no idea what to do. She actually didn't even charge for our visit. I called, at this point, every regular exotics/herp vet in the city of Pittsburgh and surrounding area as well as all three of the exotic servicing emergency vets. My regular vet does not have Friday hours. I even called a clinic three hours away in Ohio.
So, fast forward again. Kaz was seen yesterday by an extremely hard to reach specialist vet. They dis an ultrasound of the liver. It is normal sized, but those spots are all through it. The vet actually REALLY thought they looked like eggs. Kaz doesn't habe any distinctly pronounced hemipenes. If you look at his tail base you'd think he were female, based on the visual. However, if you shine a light then he has hemipenes. They're very short.
The vet didn't see them as three dimensional, so he ruled out masses, polyps, tumors etc. He biopsied one and ran some slides. They turned our to be abscesses. He believes they're bacterial, viral or protozoal. He's severely anemic. His prognosis is poor.
At this point I am giving Kaz an injection of cefazolin twice a day for 3 days then for 21 more. He's also receiving oral flagyl once a day. I'm also tube feeding him once a day. He's getting AD cat food thinned with water. I'm adding bee pollen, B12, calcium/magnesium, serrepetase and a vitamin supplement.
That's everything I've learned, done and am doing.... Any other thoughts?
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