OMG! Truly sad rescue, may be too late

Oh man, I just found this thread :(:(:( I am very sorry that he didn't make it! Even more sorry that he endured 6 years of abuse. I wish he could have found you sooner.

At least he may have been a bit more comfortable in the end. I am glad he is no longer in pain.

Very heartwrenching. It is beyond comprehension that this little guy was put thru this.

Thanks for doing what you can. I am sorry it was too late. :tears:

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Originally Posted by SixSnakes

Oh man, I just found this thread :(:(:( I am very sorry that he didn't make it! Even more sorry that he endured 6 years of abuse. I wish he could have found you sooner.

At least he may have been a bit more comfortable in the end. I am glad he is no longer in pain.

Very heartwrenching. It is beyond comprehension that this little guy was put thru this.

Thanks for doing what you can. I am sorry it was too late. :tears:

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x 2 :(

To be somewhat fair, even though I don't want to be, the kid did take care of him for a few years at least. He had grown properly at some level, he had no obvious MBD (and since I could see every bone it would have been obvious), he was a good length for an adult Leo and he was 6.

I actually was speaking with my friend today, I told her he had died and she was very upset. She told me that the boy's father committed suicide a year ago, so I figure that is about when the kid stopped caring for his Leo. My friend had been buying worms and crickets for it for the last few months (they weren't even TRYING to care for it...why she didn't tell me about it then is beyond me) so she assumed it was eating what she was getting it. When I told her how bad he really was and that he wasn't eating because he couldn't and hadn't for a loooong time she truly was upset. She knows nothing about Leo's or reptiles and thought she was doing a good thing by getting the worms/crickets. The problem was that he hadn't eaten in so long prior to that it was way too late.

I have no idea (or scientific proof/data) how long it takes for a healthy Leo to starve to death but am pretty sure it's about a year. Well, maybe a bit shorter than that, he probably got fed sporadically for a while and then not at all. I will never understand why they kept him and did nothing for him, never. It took a week for the mother to tell my friend to find a home for him, for her to ask me and for me to go get him...why that could not have happened eight months ago, six months ago...even two months ago is what I don't, can't and won't understand. He would have had a fighting chance. I will never understand, never.

My father did not commit suicide when I was a teenager so I can't fathom what the boy and mother were going through, but it sort of seems to me that they just should have gotten rid of the Leo at some point, before it was too late. They must have known they were killing it slowly, they must have felt guilty, it would have been a relief to have him gone...or so I would think. I can maybe, sort of, in some non-understanding way understand that maybe they really just could not do anything about him for whatever reason, but not really.

I'm so sorry to hear about the little one. :( Maybe the kid was distraught in his own loss but he could have given it away to someone who could take care of it or sell it even.

Sorry to hear he didn't make it.