Leo with eye infection and tail bitten off

[mörten]

Hi!

Yesterday I went to check on a little leo Ive seen in my local pet shop. He was kept in a tank with his siblings (!), on sand and with no uth. It did not take long to se that the poor little guy was heavily bullied and did not get much food at all. A couple of weeks ago I came in to check on him and saw that he had gotten an eye infection, had serious shedding issues and gotten way skinnier. On top of this, his brother had bitten his tail off

I told the store to take him out of there and put him in a little plastic box with damp paper towels and soaks him in baths and flush his eyes. To make a long story short, two new employees started working there during the summer months. They really cared about him and put him in a seperate tank, gave him little saunas and eye drops. The owners were not keen on selling a sick gecko (which is a good thing actually), but I worked hard on convincing that if they did I could take him to the vet. Yesterday I got a call from the new employees and went to pick him up.

He is six months old but is very tiny and weighs in at 10 grams . He has a vet appointment on monday morning and in the meantime I am flushing his eyes with saline and eye drops and giving him baths. He is not in the worst shape a gecko can be, but bad enough for me to rescue him.

I though I would show you guys a picture of what he looked like when I got him yesterday, and later post pictures of how he (hopefully) improves

Any tips are greatly appreciated

 

[sausage]

awww poor little guy.

just make sure he has the right enviroment and temps and he should bounce back. good luck with the vet tomorrow

 

[mörten]

Thanks sausage

A little update on the little one. I took it to the vet this Monday to get its eyes and little tail checked. I got to see the most experienced reptile vet in Sweden (we only have like three reptile vets....) so I had my hopes up for a positive outcome She did not think that it suffered from an eye infection, but that some old shed had got stuck in the eye and made them so swollen and gooey. However, she adviced me to contact her soon again if the eye drops and baths wont help. Its eyes are much clearer now than when I got it last week, and it has its eyes open for a longer time each day. They also seem to clear up a bit each day, and it is becoming more active too.

The little one also had a x-ray as its stomach was looking quite dark in a large area that morning. I told her I have it on paper towels but that the pet store had it on sand. Fortunately, it did not suffer from sand impaction It had eaten 9 mealworms on its own the night before, and 5 the night before that, so it was the worms that were visible through its thin skin. I gave it a tiny bit of a laxative for dogs and cats, and later it passed a quite large poop. I think I will let it poop on its own now and see how that goes. I still give the little one baths, so hopefully that will make any eventual pooping issues better.

Its tail had healed up nicely, but it is still very skinny . As I suspected, it also had broken toes on its back legs The vet also gave it some vitamin b4 injections and fluid injections. I gave the vet a fecal sample from that same morning and I am still waiting for the lab results. I really hope that is does not have any parasites! I am so anxious to see the lab resutls. Everyday I go and check on the little one to see that it is still alive.

I think I pretty much covered the events since my first post I have some pics below from when it was out on a stroll yesterday. I also have pics of its eyes (also from yesterday). Please feel free to comment them and give your opinion on what to do and not do with the eyes

Thanks for reading


Right eye:

Left eye:

The little one out on a stroll:

 

[sausage]

awwww look at that little smiley face :3 so cute
I glad you took the time and effort to see a vet, it shows how mch you care
Im also so glad to see the little one making a recovery, keep up the good work.
His eyes are looking much much better, Im sure hell make a full reovery soon

 

[mörten]

awwww look at that little smiley face :3 so cute
I glad you took the time and effort to see a vet, it shows how mch you care
Im also so glad to see the little one making a recovery, keep up the good work.
His eyes are looking much much better, Im sure hell make a full reovery soon

Thank you so much! That makes me really happy to hear I really hope its eyes improve and go back to normal soon. He/she is such a neat little gecko with one of the sweetest personalities I have ever seen in a gecko

 

[sausage]

Im sure as long as you keep upthe good work and keep caring he will