i am fairly well expierenced with dragons and reptiles in general, i did expos for a living for a couple years and recently restarted my collection and breeding hobby...long....... long......... long...... story for another day., I am restarting from scratch hoping i have eggs in a couple weeks!
I have worked with more than a few dragons in my day but this one happens to be my girlfriends sons.
I have had Spike for 3 weeks now. When i took him on temporarilyto rehab he hadnt eaten anything for a couple weeks, never really ate his greens, and would only eat bugs if you put them in his mouth with tongs though he'd go get the occasional roach or hornworm . He is probably 4 and a half years old. Typically if an animal wont eat i would generally not try to rehab them. I have been doing baby food (squash, applesauce, and mangos and apples) for 2 and a half weeks and we finally have formed terds, albeit baby food colored....understandably. He looks a thousand times better but still has miles to go. I wanted to see if he'd live before i go taking him to the vet and dumping a couple few hundred on him.
I will get him to the vet next week to check for respertory issues and parasites and calcium/ bone density levels. Spike is uber friendly and i have even gotten a couple head bobs out of him the past few days. His husbandry was not up to par before. She told me he just stopped eating and moving one day, and that he used to eat some salad and his supers on his own.
Anyway, how do i get this lizard off the syringe and baby food? I am going to get some turkey for him tomorrow...i am sure it will be a while i am pumping babyfood into him. Ive managed to sneak a few greens in but i dont have time right now (very busy roofing) to play that game all day. So.. am i gonna be bottlefeeding this dude forever?
