Ripped snout.??

acidburn01

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Hello,

Great, hopefully she isn't developing more eggs. At least she has lost some weight which will help her
feel better. Definitely keep up her nutritional status so she will be able to go through a surgery easier.
Keep us posted on her!

Tracie
The vet was concerned with how quickly she lost the weight. Even though she laid 54 eggs, that should only account for approximately 110g, but she's lost about 250g in like two 1/2 weeks. She did say she wants us to do critical care. If she goes like 2+ days without eating, she needs critical care but as long as she's eating some, she should be okay. But since it seems to have *really* stripped her of all her nutrients and stuff, more than usual it appears, i may give her critical care anyway with some extra calcium, just to ensure she's getting plenty. Yesterday, she ate like 5 or 6 *fat* (i mean, fat enough that when Toothless bit into one, it's guts shot alll the way across his tank and into the opposite wall😂) xl roaches(the size just below breeders) and today, she ate like 11 fat superworms.
 

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At first, I was like "wtf is he talking about" and then I saw the side of her mouth and ooohhh lawwddd I see it now 😂😂
My first dragon 🐉 Puff was a master at it lol. We only saw it when she was REALLY pissed. (It usually involved Christina dressing her up to lol)
 

acidburn01

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My first dragon 🐉 Puff was a master at it lol. We only saw it when she was REALLY pissed. (It usually involved Christina dressing her up to lol)
When Nubby puffs his beard up, the corners of his mouth are really pulled apart and it absolutely looks like a perfect 100% Clint Eastwood impression. Im gonna have to get a picture, it's freaking great.😂😂
 

xp29

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When Nubby puffs his beard up, the corners of his mouth are really pulled apart and it absolutely looks like a perfect 100% Clint Eastwood impression. Im gonna have to get a picture, it's freaking great.😂😂
Oh heck yeah. Post it uo when ya do, I love pictures of them doing weird or silly stuff.
 

acidburn01

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Hello,

Definitely keep us posted on how she is doing!

Tracie
Oh heck yeah. Post it uo when ya do, I love pictures of them doing weird or silly stuff.
She ended up eating 13 superworms and a fat hornworm all covered in calcium powder yesterday. She's basking but is still doing that, like, seemingly barely able to hold herself up/awake kinda thing. We leave Tuesday morning for her consultation/surgery in Athens at UGA and I'm equally concerned about leaving the lizards behind. Their lights will be on timers and I'm gonna try to get them to eat as much as possible tomorrow and Sunday and my cousin said she would come by everyday after work (5:30ishpm) to check on them, offer food and salads and stuff and I think we'll have a couple security cameras in the room to keep an eye on them. Do you think they'll be okay from Tuesday morning to Thursday evening.? I get so paranoid and always go to worst case and it's driving my boyfriend insane.😔
 

xp29

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She ended up eating 13 superworms and a fat hornworm all covered in calcium powder yesterday. She's basking but is still doing that, like, seemingly barely able to hold herself up/awake kinda thing. We leave Tuesday morning for her consultation/surgery in Athens at UGA and I'm equally concerned about leaving the lizards behind. Their lights will be on timers and I'm gonna try to get them to eat as much as possible tomorrow and Sunday and my cousin said she would come by everyday after work (5:30ishpm) to check on them, offer food and salads and stuff and I think we'll have a couple security cameras in the room to keep an eye on them. Do you think they'll be okay from Tuesday morning to Thursday evening.? I get so paranoid and always go to worst case and it's driving my boyfriend insane.😔
I drove 750 miles round trip today because if I spent the night no one would be here to feed my guys first thing in the morning. I know exactly where your coming from 🙂 As long as your cuz feeds them, they'll be ok 👌 👍 🙂
 

Drache613

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Hello,

Wow, that's great she ate so well now. Poor girl, it sure sounds like she is worn out, bless her!
Since your other dragons have light timers, they should be fine for a couple of days. Is your boyfriend going on the trip with you then?
If your cousin will be going by daily after work, they will be happy to see someone!

Tracie
 

acidburn01

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Hello,

Wow, that's great she ate so well now. Poor girl, it sure sounds like she is worn out, bless her!
Since your other dragons have light timers, they should be fine for a couple of days. Is your boyfriend going on the trip with you then?
If your cousin will be going by daily after work, they will be happy to see someone!

Tracie
She's definitely exhausted but she's eating real well. Yesterday, she ate like 7 fat roaches, a fat hornworm and two or three superworms and today she ate three or four fat roaches, and a couple supers.

Yeah, he's gonna be coming with me. My cousin did say she would come by every evening after work to feed them and stuff, I just wanna make sure they'll be okay during the day. I'm paranoid the light timers won't work, for whatever reason, and their lights won't turn on or something. If that were to happen, would they still be okay.?
 

acidburn01

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I drove 750 miles round trip today because if I spent the night no one would be here to feed my guys first thing in the morning. I know exactly where your coming from 🙂 As long as your cuz feeds them, they'll be ok 👌 👍 🙂
I'd do the same, if my boyfriend would let me.😂😂 we're planning a trip in the spring to California for a week and I'm dreading it because we obviously can't bring the lizards. I'm always worried the worst case scenario is gonna happen.
 

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Glad to hear that she's done laying ! She has REALLY had a tough time, it was very concerning. Wow, I didn't realize she's in the 800-900 gram range ! Please don't be offended but help her to lose weight, obese dragons are always far less healthy and females have a much harder time with excess fat crowding the abdominal cavity and then the eggs are crowding all the way up to their lungs. The amount of insects she's getting is way overboard. Only 1-2 dubias and lots of greens is the way to go now to help her lose weight. I have never seen a 900 + gram dragon live long. Its the reality for obese dragons.
 

acidburn01

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Glad to hear that she's done laying ! She has REALLY had a tough time, it was very concerning. Wow, I didn't realize she's in the 800-900 gram range ! Please don't be offended but help her to lose weight, obese dragons are always far less healthy and females have a much harder time with excess fat crowding the abdominal cavity and then the eggs are crowding all the way up to their lungs. The amount of insects she's getting is way overboard. Only 1-2 dubias and lots of greens is the way to go now to help her lose weight. I have never seen a 900 + gram dragon live long. Its the reality for obese dragons.
When we got her at 4months, she was kinda chubby. Her breeder said she'd just give her a bowl of superworms and let her eat on it as she wanted. She was constantly hungry and even ate all of her salads but she kinda ballooned overnight and by the time she hit about one, she stopped eating. For a couple months, she pretty much ate nothing. Nothing was wrong with her, just didn't wanna eat. But even when she does eat, she'll only eat a couple bugs, like one or two and it's only every other day, at best. But she got up to 990 amd we put her on a diet (and she's always so active, she loves running around the house) but it didn't make a difference until she became gravid. Once she started laying eggs, she lost egg weight and dropped to 860 and then she laid that second clutch, or whatever it was a week or so later, and ended up loosing more weight from it all. She's now like 750 and only recently has started showing a real interest in bugs. Like, she ate a good bit yesterday and the day before. Just because all this egg crap stripped her so drastically of nutrients and stuff from her body, we're taking the next few days to let her eat what she wants.

Plus, she's going to UGA to be spayed on Tuesday and the vets said to basically gorge her on food as much as we can the few days before her appointment, save for the day before, obviously.
 

AHBD

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Good to hear that she'll be spayed, I hope she gets through it with as little trouble as possible ! ♥️ Gorging is never good though, nutrition yes, gorging no. Normal small meals with vit. +calcium supplementation and she'll be good. It's super hard for them to lose weight but yes, with 50+ eggs that's a loooot of weight shed in a short time.
 

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