I'm in a pinch. My ex called me the other day asking if I had room to take a gecko that needed "some love". I thought she meant it wasn't being taken care of properly and just needed a few things from the way she was talking.
I called my local vet to get said gecko for a checkup. My local vet is just over an hours drive and she's out of town until the week before Christmas. The next closest vet is two and a half hours from me.
Here's the problem. The leo came to me last night, we got him out of the container and I almost fell over. He lost both of his eyes to an infection it looks like, has some mouth rot, shed stuck to his feet, a piece on the top of his head and stuck in where his eyes were. We worked on getting the shed off but he's very aggressive.
When I asked my ex where he came from she said a girl she works with brought it in when her boyfriend didn't want it anymore. It hasn't pooed in almost a week and who knows how long it's been since the last shed.
He's very lethargic but aggressive if you try to touch him then he goes right back to laying there. I don't want to wait until after Christmas to get him into the vet because that just isn't fair to him, he's been through enough it seems.
My options are kind of limited but I need to do something. When I was at a reptile show I walked past a table with people talking about how their beardie was too old and they had to put him in the freezer. I really don't like the idea but I don't want to make him suffer more than he already has only to take him to the vet and let her put him down. Is that something to think about or should I toss that thought out and never think about it again?
I called my local vet to get said gecko for a checkup. My local vet is just over an hours drive and she's out of town until the week before Christmas. The next closest vet is two and a half hours from me.
Here's the problem. The leo came to me last night, we got him out of the container and I almost fell over. He lost both of his eyes to an infection it looks like, has some mouth rot, shed stuck to his feet, a piece on the top of his head and stuck in where his eyes were. We worked on getting the shed off but he's very aggressive.
When I asked my ex where he came from she said a girl she works with brought it in when her boyfriend didn't want it anymore. It hasn't pooed in almost a week and who knows how long it's been since the last shed.
He's very lethargic but aggressive if you try to touch him then he goes right back to laying there. I don't want to wait until after Christmas to get him into the vet because that just isn't fair to him, he's been through enough it seems.
My options are kind of limited but I need to do something. When I was at a reptile show I walked past a table with people talking about how their beardie was too old and they had to put him in the freezer. I really don't like the idea but I don't want to make him suffer more than he already has only to take him to the vet and let her put him down. Is that something to think about or should I toss that thought out and never think about it again?
