RIP Orion

He was not a beardie but a leopard gecko but I loved him very much. I got him what seemed ages ago in high school as an adult a little awhile after my first leopard gecko had passed away. I have only had my first for a week before he died and then I got Orion as an adult and he really opened the door for me with reptiles. He lived to be 11 but it seems too short and I wonder if he would have lived longer. I took him in to the vetmonday because he had impacted sperm plugs to get removed. Tonight I noticed a few spots where he had put some tiny spots of blood. I checked him over to make sure he was not actively bleeding or the like and planned to take him again to the vet in the morning. Sadly during the early morning hours he passed away before I could get him to the vet.

I feel so guilty and sick, I thought I was doing the right thing by getting those things, which I suspected to be uncomfortable, removed. I feel horrible, he really was my first gecko to do well and my first reptile and I had him for so long.