RescueMom
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If you've read my previous posts, you know that I'm dealing with a picky eater (understatement of the century) but here's a brief recap.
I got Waldo in February when he was 7 months old (or so I was told). As soon as I got him home, he started closing his right eye (I'm pretty sure he's lost most of his sight in this eye now) .
He would only eat super worms because that's all he was being fed. I tried to get him on other feeders, but that created a complete food strike.
I took him to the vet in March where I got a supplement. I gave him that for about a week and he started eating "normally".
Still concerned with his eye, I took him back to the vet in May (after COVID-19 allowed). After an xray, found out he doesn't have the orbital bone in the right eye socket. Doctor said everything else seemed healthy. No signs of mbd etc.
He saw the vet again last month too when I saw the cut on his foot, so that's 3 times since February he's been to the vet. I never even took a cat to the vet that often!
The eating battle has continued. He was eating horn worms so I got him some more. Now he walks right over them.
I can't get him to open his mouth to give him any supplement now. He fights me so bad I'm afraid someone's going to get hurt ?
He DOES drink his water. Mister goes off 3 times a day for 2 minutes. I think he drinks the water off every leaf in his cage.
I also replaced his light (T5 HO). It was 6 months old.
Basking 85-90, ambient appx 75, humidity 50-70%.
Live plants. No plastic. Fake vines (for now).
He's in a 18x18x36 right now, but his 2x2x4 will be here today, along with the dragon ledges. I have real wood (almost) ready for the branches and the pots and plants ect.
He's either climbing the screen or laying in the same place for hours.
I've offered him crickets, calci worms, and horn worms, just today. He had a cricket crawling up his back and he was acting like a fool trying to get away from it (I never leave crickets in his cage over night, BTW).
What is going on?? He's not quite skin and bones yet, but you can see the ridges in his tail and I don't like it! Every day he doesn't eat is another day he isn't getting any calcium. The only thing he'll eat now are wax worms, so if I want him to get his d3 (which last Sunday was D3-day) I have to give him those. Oh, and he ate a horn worm moth last week that finally came out of its cocoon.
My only thought at this point is a different vet, which would be Blue Pearl. Maybe my local vet has missed something.
I'm completely out of ideas ?
I got Waldo in February when he was 7 months old (or so I was told). As soon as I got him home, he started closing his right eye (I'm pretty sure he's lost most of his sight in this eye now) .
He would only eat super worms because that's all he was being fed. I tried to get him on other feeders, but that created a complete food strike.
I took him to the vet in March where I got a supplement. I gave him that for about a week and he started eating "normally".
Still concerned with his eye, I took him back to the vet in May (after COVID-19 allowed). After an xray, found out he doesn't have the orbital bone in the right eye socket. Doctor said everything else seemed healthy. No signs of mbd etc.
He saw the vet again last month too when I saw the cut on his foot, so that's 3 times since February he's been to the vet. I never even took a cat to the vet that often!
The eating battle has continued. He was eating horn worms so I got him some more. Now he walks right over them.
I can't get him to open his mouth to give him any supplement now. He fights me so bad I'm afraid someone's going to get hurt ?
He DOES drink his water. Mister goes off 3 times a day for 2 minutes. I think he drinks the water off every leaf in his cage.
I also replaced his light (T5 HO). It was 6 months old.
Basking 85-90, ambient appx 75, humidity 50-70%.
Live plants. No plastic. Fake vines (for now).
He's in a 18x18x36 right now, but his 2x2x4 will be here today, along with the dragon ledges. I have real wood (almost) ready for the branches and the pots and plants ect.
He's either climbing the screen or laying in the same place for hours.
I've offered him crickets, calci worms, and horn worms, just today. He had a cricket crawling up his back and he was acting like a fool trying to get away from it (I never leave crickets in his cage over night, BTW).
What is going on?? He's not quite skin and bones yet, but you can see the ridges in his tail and I don't like it! Every day he doesn't eat is another day he isn't getting any calcium. The only thing he'll eat now are wax worms, so if I want him to get his d3 (which last Sunday was D3-day) I have to give him those. Oh, and he ate a horn worm moth last week that finally came out of its cocoon.
My only thought at this point is a different vet, which would be Blue Pearl. Maybe my local vet has missed something.
I'm completely out of ideas ?