westcoastchameleons
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After getting my ambilobe panther male from chameleonsonly.com in mid. january of this year, i had many expectations.my 5 month old cham. couldnt have flourished more!
my male wasbig bold and beutiful. He ha always eaten and drank everything. He has never had any health prob. this was the chameleon that i always took extra time to take of, and watch. In the past 6 months he has flourished in my devoted care. HE is my most prized posetion.
He recently shed, so i thought it would be a good idea to take him outside to give a nice misting and some sun. Little did i know that this would turn in to a huge emergency.
As i was taking my ambilobe outside, i was admiring his new and improved coloration after the recent shed. His colors were turning out to be extraordinary.This is when it all went wrong!
Little did i know that when i was admireing his colors he was hunting what he thought was food.Little did he know that it was part of m shirt.o as you can imagine, he shot out his tongue to catch it.since it was just my shirt his tongue got stuck, as he was trying to pull it off, the pressure was to much.His tongue ripped.
As you can imagine i was hiterical, but i called my mom to take me to the emergency vetrinairian.When we got thier, we were imediatley seen(we also brought the tongue for the doc. to look at).He said my poor chameleons tongue was comletley ripped out!as you can imagine, by this time i was devestated, even worse my oor chameleon had to suffer.
The doc. had a nurse mix. up some batril for me to oraly inject.My poor chameleon will from here on out have to be hand fed!I am glad to report though that he has been handling this very well!!!!!
Even though he has to be hand fed, he will be able for the most part to function as a normal chameleon would!I will do everything in my power to make sure he is the beautiful and healthy chameleon he is meant to be!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He will always be my Manga-Loko!!!!!!!
my male wasbig bold and beutiful. He ha always eaten and drank everything. He has never had any health prob. this was the chameleon that i always took extra time to take of, and watch. In the past 6 months he has flourished in my devoted care. HE is my most prized posetion.
He recently shed, so i thought it would be a good idea to take him outside to give a nice misting and some sun. Little did i know that this would turn in to a huge emergency.
As i was taking my ambilobe outside, i was admiring his new and improved coloration after the recent shed. His colors were turning out to be extraordinary.This is when it all went wrong!
Little did i know that when i was admireing his colors he was hunting what he thought was food.Little did he know that it was part of m shirt.o as you can imagine, he shot out his tongue to catch it.since it was just my shirt his tongue got stuck, as he was trying to pull it off, the pressure was to much.His tongue ripped.
As you can imagine i was hiterical, but i called my mom to take me to the emergency vetrinairian.When we got thier, we were imediatley seen(we also brought the tongue for the doc. to look at).He said my poor chameleons tongue was comletley ripped out!as you can imagine, by this time i was devestated, even worse my oor chameleon had to suffer.
The doc. had a nurse mix. up some batril for me to oraly inject.My poor chameleon will from here on out have to be hand fed!I am glad to report though that he has been handling this very well!!!!!
Even though he has to be hand fed, he will be able for the most part to function as a normal chameleon would!I will do everything in my power to make sure he is the beautiful and healthy chameleon he is meant to be!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He will always be my Manga-Loko!!!!!!!