I posted about how I was trying to rescue a crested gecko and a leopard gecko from one of my friends. Well, I got them today finally after weeks and weeks of trying. Let me just say, they are way worse than I thought they were going to be. I don't even know where to begin..
The crested - He barely moves and can't even hold his head up. His jaw is so awful that I literally cried when I say it and the rest of him. It is totally misaligned and stick out to the right. His tail is MAJORLY kinked. It's probably kinked in 4 or 5 different places. There is something wrong with his back also. There's kind of a big bump and it looks horrible. He has skin that he couldn't shed off on his toes. One of his front feet has toes that are dead and a dark brown color. He was living in utterly gross shavings that were probably never changed since they've had him (they all stuck to the bottom of the tank and I couldn't really get all of them off). His water bowl looked like a mini swamp. It had sooo much gunk stuck to it. When I washed it out he drank quite a bit. I fed him some baby food mixed with a lot of calcium and vitamins. I'm almost positive that he has MBD.
The leo - She most likely hasn't seen for who knows how long. She had tons of skin that she couldn't shed off her face and toes. She's missing quite a few toes also. When I took the skin off of her face she didn't open up her eyes for a while because she probably didn't think that she could. After I took it off she just keep licking her eyes over and over like it was a total relief to get it off. Her water bowl was empty but not as dirty as the crested's. She is so weak that at times she wouldn't even lower her head down low enough to drink the water and she was just licking air. She did drink a lot though when she did hit the water. Her tall has about 3 kinks in it also and if she didn't have those in her tail them her tail would probably be thin. Her stomach looks way too big and it hangs down when she's standing. I tried feeding her some mealworms and she went after it but it was too weak of an attempt. After that she wouldn't really look at it.
There are probably things that I'm forgetting since there's so much. I'm going to set up an appointment at the vets tomorrow but I'm most likely not going to be able to bring them in until next week
. I'm really really really hoping that they might help me out a little since they're not mine and I'm rescuing them. Or maybe they could at least let me make payments. I don't know. Almost anything will help.
-Jamie..
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