Update!
My Izzy is a tough little girl. She's eating and drinking. She's moving around her temporary cage quite well and has gone back to her "normal" colors. I am sure her leg (and tail) are still very painful, but she tries to use them, and is doing way better than I ever expected...
She lives outside, in a HUGE vivarium. I think she was climbing along the screen (1/2" galvanized mesh) and the bird/cat saw her tail... thinking it was a worm...
I've had my Chams outdoors for years, with never a problem, other than an occasional escape when some dummy forgets to close the...
<<< would he go back in his cage tonight if I have the heat there? >>>
I doubt it, but you can try... Try everything! But they can travel pretty far, pretty quickly, so keep your eyes open for him. Are there other trees he can get to? We had a Panther get out of his outdoor enclosure, and...
Thank you for the knowledge, I won't give her any more baytril... I only gave it to her once yesterday afternoon. It hasn't been 24 hours since the incident, but so far she's hanging in there. She's drinking willingly, and just ate a superworm from my hand. Her leg looks nasty from not...
"I would hold off on the baytril until she has an infection. Topical stuff should prevent it. "
Really? Why? I thought maybe I could ward off infection by doing that.
Or maybe it was a bird... I don't really know, I didn't see it happen, but found her right after. She lost most of her tail and all of the skin from her left hind leg. My poor Izzy!
And of course, it happens on the weekend! No Herp vets in sight! Luckily I have Baytril, which I started...