Severe issues with rescue. NEED HELP!

[BrightReptiles]

Also, it's not that we CANT do it. We don't want to if there is a chance this gecko could live a happy life.

 

[sunshinegeckos]

that doesnt look like the case here though

 

[Adinar]

You said yourself it barrelrolls when it tried to move, it can barely move it's head to get water out of the bottle cap, it's mouth is always gaping (severe MBD effects other area of the body, not just the limbs), it lost most of the movement in it's rear legs. This is everything taken from the posts that you posted. Re-read it. I suggested taking the animal to the vet and you made no mention of that, you just wanted to do home based solutions. You can not save this animal and it is suffering and it will suffer more. Drowning, letting it loose in your yard to let nature deal with your problem, or trying to overdose an animal with human medicine is really irresponsible when you were given other humane options on what to do and told how to find them on the forums.

I'm sorry, but if you didn't want deal with the problem, which in your first post you yourself said looked like really bad MBD + stuck shed + infected eyes which = money that will have to be put out not home remedies to fix the issue, then you shouldn't have taken the animal from the person from craiglist.

This is the last time I will respond to any of your questions since obviously you are too stubborn to listen to the advice of others.

 

[M_surinamensis]

sorry I have just heard the freezer part never the fridge part.

Because there's no real point to adding that step. The brain is in the head, not too far below the outer surface, over the hollow of the mouth. It loses heat quickly in the freezer, causing lethargy, unconsciousness and death.

The "they feel the blood crystallizing" thing is a little bit of anthropomorphism, based on what it feels like when humans experience frostbite. Large, warm blooded, big brained mammals do not necessarily have the same experiences as small, exothermic, small brained reptiles.

There is some question about the act of freezing a reptile as a form of euthanasia to begin with, and there are numerous older threads where it is discussed... but adding a step and putting one in the fridge is just prolonging the onset of death by killing them slightly more slowly at temperatures above freezing but well below what they require to function. They lose the heat either way, there's no point to making it happen more slowly, the idea is to bring about death as quickly as possible.

Straight into the freezer accomplishes that best.

 

[fl_orchidslave]

Faster is more humane. Prolonging it is logically more painful. It's never an easy thing to do. I always cry.

 

[DierdreDreamwalker626]

I think that it should definitely be put down. It's pitiful. Poor lil guy.

I'm wondering how that lady was only worried about shedding problems though? Even if you know absolutely NOTHING about geckos, it's completely obvious that something is SERIOUSLY wrong. I don't understand people. She should have made the right call instead of pawning it off on someone else. She just prolonged his suffering. ....

 

[sunshinegeckos]

If you don't or cant deal with it I can come pick it up and do it for you (if you have not already)

 

[fl_orchidslave]

Someone in our herp society contacted me a while back about taking a couple of sick geckos. After she described them to me and where she'd gotten them, I told her no I won't take them and they need to be put down rather than risk any cross contamination with healthy animals. I had already taken in one of their geckos a few months prior and it didn't live thru the night. I should have taken them and done it myself. She ended up trying to "fix" them, only to have them both die in less than 2 weeks. Those poor animals suffered greatly and it should not have happened. She was pig headed and let them die on their own I just can't drive 100 miles round trip to do that anymore, but still I wish I had been able to take them and do the right thing.

 

[BrightReptiles]

If you don't or cant deal with it I can come pick it up and do it for you (if you have not already)

The deed is done. Thank you anyways Christina.

 

[sunshinegeckos]

ok sorry you had to do that. I know its cliche and all but he is in a better place. I hope that girl doesnt have any other geckos needlessly suffering.

 

[BrightReptiles]

I hope she doesn't. She had snakes from what I could see thought :/

 

[Alex G]

The deed is done. Thank you anyways Christina.

Can I ask how you ended up doing it?

 

[lillith]

It's never ever a pleasant thing to do, but I am glad that gecko is no longer in the state it was. I always snivel like a baby when I have to do it, too.

I think it's shameful that the previous owner even had it on CL, that was cowardice if I have ever seen cowardice.

I'm sorry you had to learn this lesson this way...sometimes I think it might be easier if it's your own mutant goober baby that you produced...but it's never a good day.

 

[BrightReptiles]

Can I ask how you ended up doing it?

My girlfriend didn't want the sick gecko in the freezer so I bought a box of dry ice and put him in a bag surrounded by the ice.