So last night my wife comes upstairs in tears, our baby boy Woody was laying in his box belly up. She had just changed his water and checked to see if anyone was in shed since today is a feeding day and he had seemed fine.

He isnt even a year old yet. The breeder said that he had eaten 3 times and had gone thru 2 sheds before we picked him up and as far as we could tell, everything was good to go. After we picked him up we gave a week before we tried to feed him. Nothing. For almost a month, nothing. We didn't handle him. We left him alone in case it was due to stress and gave him more time to settle down. We offered once a week. Still nothing. It's been 2 months. We tried frozen thawed. We tried live mice and rats.

Sadly, the only thing that I can think of was that he starved. Without food, being that young, he had nothing to live off of, unlike our 2 and 3 year olds that are obviously big enough to sustain for a while, but the part that disturbs me the most that I would like some feedback on was this: he was all mangled up? I mean, it looked like he had a broken back and he was all kind of lumpy and misfigured. I can't even begin to describe that. Has anyone heard of anything like this happening? If so, please share. Thanks for your help.