swallowed sand

[slavetoIzzie]

Just found Putzy in his cave with a mouthful of sand. He's unresponsive, eyes closed and mouth partially open. I cleaned out as much of his mouth as possible, dribbled water in to it to clear it and he did vomit up a bunch of sand and some of his babyfood from his lunch. He has been very slow to resume eating this year, no greens and only a couple of worms every couple of days. He's not impacted, had a big poop and urate yesterday but he had gone almost a week since his last one. What can I do to help him?

 

[TASTIGER]

take the sand out right away and replace it with paper towels..then get him to a vet they will need to make sure he didnt inhale sand

 

[slavetoIzzie]

Thank you for your reply, but Herr Major von Putz, is gone. The sand was just inside his sleeping cave, he liked to wiggle into it at night. The rest of his tank was tile. He was only 4 years old. I feel like such a failure.

 

[TASTIGER]

im so sorry for your loss..

 

[beardie parents]

I'm sorry, I know how you feel. We lost four beardies in a two year period.

 

[Terminator7777]

Oh wow and am going to be honest what a foolish mistake. Nobody should use sand for dragons better off using repti carpet theres a sticky nail issue there but alot better then this. Tile to me is best but very hard and afraid to use it cause its so hard. Sorry man sand just p's me off so many ppl use the stuff and am mainly new to dragons and new that right off the bat.

 

[TASTIGER]

Oh wow and am going to be honest what a foolish mistake. Nobody should use sand for dragons better off using repti carpet theres a sticky nail issue there but alot better then this. Tile to me is best but very hard and afraid to use it cause its so hard. Sorry man sand just p's me off so many ppl use the stuff and am mainly new to dragons and new that right off the bat.

Thank you for your reply, but Herr Major von Putz, is gone. The sand was just inside his sleeping cave, he liked to wiggle into it at night. The rest of his tank was tile. He was only 4 years old. I feel like such a failure.

Terminator be nice it was only in his sleeping area she says she used mostly tile..

 

[Vermundor]

Oh wow and am going to be honest what a foolish mistake. Nobody should use sand for dragons better off using repti carpet theres a sticky nail issue there but alot better then this. Tile to me is best but very hard and afraid to use it cause its so hard. Sorry man sand just p's me off so many ppl use the stuff and am mainly new to dragons and new that right off the bat.

Perhaps she wasn't informed of it? Stop beating her up. You weren't informed of it until you asked, so don't go around saying she was wrong and she should have known by instinct.


slavetoIzzie, I'm sorry for your loss. People/Petshops should really stop advertising sand as a good substrate. Many people are misinformed by that.

 

[beardie parents]

I think that something else was wrong that caused this. I don't think it was the sand. From the way his first post described it, something else caused this, not just the sand.

 

[bandit27]

i am so sorry for your loss

Oh wow and am going to be honest what a foolish mistake. Nobody should use sand for dragons better off using repti carpet theres a sticky nail issue there but alot better then this. Tile to me is best but very hard and afraid to use it cause its so hard. Sorry man sand just p's me off so many ppl use the stuff and am mainly new to dragons and new that right off the bat.

Terminator, you may have known that, but you have so many posts on here asking for help, so DO NOT judge others, that comment was bang out of order. I think you need to apologise to slavetolizzy!!

 

[Terminator7777]

I wasn't beating up anyone or her just should of known. I bought my dragon and got the second stupidly and knew not to use sand i dont know how but i knew and never read a thing about them. I said what i feeled about this topic and Vermunder better watch yourself dont appreciate your attitude about my post. Also if your using tile then why even use sand most be the tile gets cold or something at night but add a piece of cut carpeting. Just doesnt make sense to me and a dragon lost his life but i shouldnt talk mine prob will die soon any how. But not for a stupid mistake like this. Also i am not apolizeing cause i dont feel i should.

 

[TASTIGER]

she just lost her dragon have some sympathy. dont act all high and mighty you just recently posted that you fed your little baby a full sized super worm because you were drunk.

 

[Terminator7777]

Nice come back dude and relax. I guess everyone on here thinks there perfect on here and dont make a mistake. Whatever the worm crawled out of the container and my baby girl is fine pooping everyday.

 

[TASTIGER]

first of all i am not a dude, and i am just saying have some sympathy no one wants to be told they are foolish when they just lost something dear to them

 

[bandit27]

my parents always taught me "if you don't have anything nice to say, then say nothing"