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When I was 16, I was gifted a pretty little juvenile named Puppy that the owner, a friend's brother, would no longer take care of.
10 years later, here we are. Puppy suffered a mouth infection about a year ago that caused his left eye to rupture. His cage was always kept clean, but I was not keeping his tank consistently warm enough and his little body has having a hard time with it. I had noticed him being less active and worried over him a bit but didn't even think to check his mouth. About the time he stopped eating, he had a shed that would not come off of his eye.
I felt like the world's biggest jerk, took him to the vet, and got him some antibiotics. He pulled through and two weeks later, when I took him for the followup visit, his eye had partially regrown. The vet said that he had heard about that happening but never seen it and hadn't been sure he believed it.
Now he is back on oral antibiotics and eye goop (I will post a thread specific to his issues later tonight when I get better pictures of the problem) as of two weeks ago because his eyes are looking cloudy and the vet suspects a local infection. They have some type of white film over them. His skin is also looking very glossy in areas, which is confusing and a little worrisome. I've researched a little more and have started running a dehumidifier in room where he is kept to get the humidity down to 40% or below. He's very scared and snappy right now since he cannot see well. In 10 years he had never tried to bite me before or been very vocal, but lately he has been snapping and making his scared little leo chirp every time I pick him up.
Anyway -- I was just suppose to be introducing myself but I guess I went off a bit. I am 26 years-old, married, live right outside of a major college town in the Appalachian Mountains, and work at a real estate office and do freelance advertising and promotion work. My other pet is a parvo-surviving barn cat that thinks I'm his mama and is not allowed in the same room as Puppy. I keep Puppy in a 20 gallon tank. I think he was happier in the 10 gallon, but the larger tank lets me keep a warm side and a cool side more than I could with the smaller one. He eats crickets, though he's been on mealworms since his eyes started bothering him and gets wax worms occasionally. He has papertowels as flooring, a favorite cave little cave, a big fancy cave he wouldn't be caught dead in, and a hollow plastic log that he thinks is the coolest bathroom ever (as do I since it means that a cricket won't run through bacteria harboring poop before he eats the cricket).
10 years later, here we are. Puppy suffered a mouth infection about a year ago that caused his left eye to rupture. His cage was always kept clean, but I was not keeping his tank consistently warm enough and his little body has having a hard time with it. I had noticed him being less active and worried over him a bit but didn't even think to check his mouth. About the time he stopped eating, he had a shed that would not come off of his eye.
I felt like the world's biggest jerk, took him to the vet, and got him some antibiotics. He pulled through and two weeks later, when I took him for the followup visit, his eye had partially regrown. The vet said that he had heard about that happening but never seen it and hadn't been sure he believed it.
Now he is back on oral antibiotics and eye goop (I will post a thread specific to his issues later tonight when I get better pictures of the problem) as of two weeks ago because his eyes are looking cloudy and the vet suspects a local infection. They have some type of white film over them. His skin is also looking very glossy in areas, which is confusing and a little worrisome. I've researched a little more and have started running a dehumidifier in room where he is kept to get the humidity down to 40% or below. He's very scared and snappy right now since he cannot see well. In 10 years he had never tried to bite me before or been very vocal, but lately he has been snapping and making his scared little leo chirp every time I pick him up.
Anyway -- I was just suppose to be introducing myself but I guess I went off a bit. I am 26 years-old, married, live right outside of a major college town in the Appalachian Mountains, and work at a real estate office and do freelance advertising and promotion work. My other pet is a parvo-surviving barn cat that thinks I'm his mama and is not allowed in the same room as Puppy. I keep Puppy in a 20 gallon tank. I think he was happier in the 10 gallon, but the larger tank lets me keep a warm side and a cool side more than I could with the smaller one. He eats crickets, though he's been on mealworms since his eyes started bothering him and gets wax worms occasionally. He has papertowels as flooring, a favorite cave little cave, a big fancy cave he wouldn't be caught dead in, and a hollow plastic log that he thinks is the coolest bathroom ever (as do I since it means that a cricket won't run through bacteria harboring poop before he eats the cricket).
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