Recent content by MarkP6644

I lied. He actually has been keeping his eyes open for the most part, he may have been tired. He also ate...A LOT! lol. Still does blink and close them a bit, but it looks like they don’t really bother him as much as I origanally thought

Thanks! And for sure. He’s in a stowaway fold-up butterfly cage for now. Which is nice because its 2’x2’x4’, and he gets to be outside! But yeah I’ve made the mistake of not cleaning a cage thoroughly after a guy dropped of his sick female panther, and put one of my cham’s in the same cage b4...

Also; I have treated numerous eye infections, as well as mandibular abscess’ and other issues. His eyes were like this when I collected him and haven’t changed (I.e. it’s not water in his eyes like chameleons do when the clean their eyes—they definitely are bothersome to him and he can barely...

His eyes look as through they have an infection/abscess, but it’s bilateral and I’ve never seen anything like this. He was collected tonight, and my plan of action is as follows; I will initially start with ofloxacin eye drops 2x per day for about 3days along with metronidazole for 3days...

(y) Thanks:) But it's all about perspective right? A wise person once told me "He doesn't look dangerous to me, but I'm not a cricket." (y)

True, it got me excited when that crossed my mind. I took that pic several months ago, then that phrase popped in my head and convinced me to post it.

I just remembered red and yellow kills a fellow! No need to memorize both haha

https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/6sotqz/punchy_changing_to_his_happy_colors/

Thanks! With my dental background I should have known what that is, but I admit I had to look up a symphyseal fracture. The way they wire the mandibles together is very similar to what I did (I actually did "Macguyver" it, literally hahaha). The dental composite alone would not hold the jaw...

Yes he was a wild caught in Florida, in the Ft. Lauderdale area. The hardest part was fixing his occlusion-making sure all his maxillary and mandibular teeth contacted evenly when chewing so the force is spread evenly along all his teeth and his jaw. Also, the vet that provided me with the...

Like Macguyver? hahaha

I caught him 4 nights ago and did the surgery yesterday. His jaw itself has a wire holding it together and dental composite material that matches his tooth color so you can barely notice it (and covers the wire). But the tissue around the center of his mandible (were the break was) is still he...

I just noticed today his right forearm had been fully broken in half before, but is now healed (I guess I was too concerned with the severity of his broken jaw to notice). You can slightly tell in the video and one of the pics, but ill attach another pic where you can see how bad it is. It...

Thank you, I received a lot of hate and disrespect over on reddit at /r/chameleons. The mod advised him to be put to death, others said such things as; I was basically "kidnapping him", accused me of animal cruelty "for fixing his jaw", and I was also accused of breaking his jaw myself! LOL.