After a long, hard battle and a lot of consideration, I had Morzan euthanized today. When it became clear even 2 pinkie mice every 4-6 days wasn't helping him to turn around, I figured it was best to end his suffering. He would have been 2 years old next month.
These photos were taken outside today before taking him to the vet's office. He just keeps withering away, and I knew last night he was just too far gone to help. As you can see in the photos, he was losing coloration and is almost skeletal. He has been kept nice and humid, and not too wet, so this isn't a hydration issue. He just got so emaciated his skin was losing health.
When he passed, the vet picked him up and his skin just tore away at the neck. The vet used lethal injection, but he was gone in seconds. I'm just glad his suffering is over. I am going to try to get a necropsy done, hopefully the injection won't mess with the results too much, but at the very least maybe they could see if it was a physical deformity causing this condition. Whether or not I get the necropsy done depends on if my vehicle is reliable enough to make the 40+ minute drive to the diagnostic center, since I only have a short window of time to get him in for results.
In the shade.
In the sunlight.
His head is the main area losing color, but there's also a thin strip following his spine that was losing color, too.
As he got thinner, his belly go wrinklier and wrinklier. There's also that big dark area that's worrisome. It's pretty much always been present.
A close up of the dark area.
If anyone isn't familiar with his story, he has
this thread that I've kept updated fairly well, detailing the majority of everything I've tried with him.
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