jacqui778
Sub-Adult Member
Hello,
I just rescued, not 30 minutes ago, a large female dragon. She's definitely not underweight but she looks horrible.
Concerns:
1) She was on sand from OUTSIDE and eating bugs from OUTSIDE. There have to be parasites.
2) She appears to have sores on the inside of her upper lip, two of them, directly across from each other on either side of her head in between her eye and her ear. They are actually making that area of her lip curl upwards. I had to remove a yellowish scab looking thing from them.
3) She appears to have a large, swollen scab looking thing on her back foot. It is white. My father's first words were, "That looks like a parasitic infection."
4) I can tell that she has very bad MBD by the way she moves and the way her arms and legs bend
5) She's refusing to eat anything. There's probably relocation stress, of course, but she also hasn't pooed
6) The tip of her tongue is yellow (is that normal....?)
I got her a bath and scrubbed the caked on sand off of her. She's vicious. If anything moves, she beards it and gapes at it. I call her Gematria, Gem for short. She's beautiful, and has beautiful markings on her back, but she's in bad condition.
Her previous owner never bathed her, never supplemented her, and claimed that 'she only ate shredded carrots'. As stated before, she was on sifted sand from outside, and eating bugs from outside. Her water bowl had algae in it. Her UVB has been out for 3 months. She hates me, so I don't know how in the world I'm going to get anything done with her.
My mind is so clogged at the moment that I can't think of what else to say. I'm going to get some liquid calcium into her next time she gapes (which will be no problem, she gapes at anything and everything.)
PLEASE help me save Gem!
Jacqui
I just rescued, not 30 minutes ago, a large female dragon. She's definitely not underweight but she looks horrible.
Concerns:
1) She was on sand from OUTSIDE and eating bugs from OUTSIDE. There have to be parasites.
2) She appears to have sores on the inside of her upper lip, two of them, directly across from each other on either side of her head in between her eye and her ear. They are actually making that area of her lip curl upwards. I had to remove a yellowish scab looking thing from them.
3) She appears to have a large, swollen scab looking thing on her back foot. It is white. My father's first words were, "That looks like a parasitic infection."
4) I can tell that she has very bad MBD by the way she moves and the way her arms and legs bend
5) She's refusing to eat anything. There's probably relocation stress, of course, but she also hasn't pooed
6) The tip of her tongue is yellow (is that normal....?)
I got her a bath and scrubbed the caked on sand off of her. She's vicious. If anything moves, she beards it and gapes at it. I call her Gematria, Gem for short. She's beautiful, and has beautiful markings on her back, but she's in bad condition.
Her previous owner never bathed her, never supplemented her, and claimed that 'she only ate shredded carrots'. As stated before, she was on sifted sand from outside, and eating bugs from outside. Her water bowl had algae in it. Her UVB has been out for 3 months. She hates me, so I don't know how in the world I'm going to get anything done with her.
My mind is so clogged at the moment that I can't think of what else to say. I'm going to get some liquid calcium into her next time she gapes (which will be no problem, she gapes at anything and everything.)
PLEASE help me save Gem!
Jacqui