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I don't know that she has too much food in her belly, from what I've read on the average cham eating 10 crickets per day ( ?! ) and she's living off 1-2 meal worms or a small cricket per day if we can get it in her. The tongue worries me because of the long term factor of her not being able...

Does anyone have any thoughts on eating? We're still force feeding and I mean that literally, and she's getting more avoidant when we try to feed her, today she actively rejected the cricket and tried to get away... :(

Thank you Junebug, I'm lucky to have found the help on here to help our journey. I raise chinchillas and they can be difficult at times from certain illnesses to hand feeding kits every 2 hours for weeks on end... I'm lucky to have worked so long with some great vets as well. Our main concern...

This morning she hissed at us a couple times, we got one cricket in. I know this doesn't seem like much, but I figure if she gets hungry enough she'll be more cooperative right? I figure it's better to give her a little than to fight her and stress her out to fill her up. This morning she was...

We do not have a laundry room sink, and the bathroom sinks are all very curved. I bleached the sink afterward to prevent any cross contamination from the feces. The only other sink available is in my chin house but that is used primarily for watering the chins ( another contamination concern )...

POOP! We've got POOP!! I had two goals for today, get the lizard to poop, and get some chin pics taken.... so I'm halfway there and I haven't even had breakfast yet! It was a LOT of poop. I put her in the sink on a towel to shower her instead of in my hand today as she seems much stronger and...

Thanks for the pic. The tip of her tongue is a little more whitish than that, but it's dark in the back, which is what I was worried about. Well... she's a bit stronger, was hiding behind the plants when I got home from school.. but when we were force feeding her she nearly bit off her own...

Okay, we've been showering, we've been hand feeding, medicating, and watering as well as sunning. Still no poop... :( I was really hoping to see some after force feeding last night. She has not attempted to eat since Sat. morning (4 days now), I have to force open her mouth and have my...

Yup, that's the walk. Okay, vet said... her hind legs are basically large sponge tissue right now. He says there "something" but not eggs in her hind gut, he discussed enema but said it can be kind of dangerous and easy to hurt them or perforate so he's going to wait and see if we can get...

Vet today... Leaving in a bit. Today she got the angriest I've seen when we gave her the Ca. I don't know if it's that she's more feisty, or if she was mad that my husband controlled the dropper while I opened her mouth instead of Hailey. I also gave her a warm water soak holding her head up...

Brilliant.. I was trying with a lamp for quite a while last night and was thinking... I wish I had a white board... or maybe I could take them to work and borrow the radiology dept's... lol. I didn't think of my computer... duh... I am a little worried, she hasn't poo'd much at all, just a tiny...

A lot of things around here is the best, that's part of the price we pay being so far from big cities, lack of selection, and lack of competition. She seems to be doing a little better today, she looks a bit rounder, and we didn't have a current cricket count, but it looks like a couple may...

I've been looking at xrays online that I can find, there is some darker (whiter) areas in the lower abdomen, but they are not round shaped like eggs or anything. After seeing other xrays of DBM chams I'm feeling very hopeless. You can not even distinguish the bones in her legs, tail, or her...

Finally heard back from the vet and he thinks she's impacted with eggs... which the xray doesn't show any, he hasn't even seen it yet. I tried to scan it in to post here, but it's too light it won't even scan. I'm just on the verge of tears with this whole deal and it's breaking my heart to...

Yes. Today while outside it's like her front legs were trapped behind her and she couldn't get them forward... :( I've not heard back from the exotic vet, the other vet will attempt to treat, but would have to order the meds, that will take 1-2 days to get them even if they're expedited... :(...

We are about 3 hrs from either. I did get a call from PetSmart today, from the operations manager of the store we got her from. They offered to refund the purchase, pay for the vet bills and replace her if we wanted. I was extremely impressed. She drank for me this morning, we still have...

Okay talked with the vet. Said he can do the exam and all of that but not the xray ( long story ) so I need to get the xray done, take it to him, and we'll go from there. So I'm going to try to get the xray done tomorrow after school and take her to him either after that or the next day...

Thanks Jann, I will read it! Thanks David, I will order them! Do you have a recommended supplier? I'm just so frustrated with Brad, he is a great vet but easily "irritated" I guess you could say, and I made the mistake of ... suggestion, which can kind of set him off. I sent a message to my...

I think the cup thing would work well. On the occasion she gets meal worms we put them in a little dish and she eats them out of there. Should I maybe pull a leg off a cricket to decrease mobility to help her? I am also going to order her some worms she can have more often, what is the best...

She drank some off the syringe this morning while we were outside. I'm going to set up a drip that's easy for her to access today. We haven't seen her eat anything today, she will watch things. While we sat outside this morning there was a fly that kept landing my leg and she'd watch it, but...