I think she is choking!!

[Progrmor]

I gave her a roach that might have been a bit too big!! She is walkingaround like crazy trying to swallow it!! it is half way down I cant like pull it out or anything ??? Help1

 

[Progrmor]

Okey, false alarm! She manage to swallow it... phuuu! I was scared as sh#t for a while.
(It was no bigger than the space between her eyes, but pretty damn close)
She aint getting any roaches for a while
But still, might be good to know if anyone has a method for helping a cham in this situation?

 

[Progrmor]

Im still shaking..

 

[ataraxia]

Hi, I have unfortunately had a chameleon pass because of this. It was too late by the time i removed the roach. I would say if you are for sure the chameleon is choking. Remove the roach. In my case i could see most of the roach covering the glottis.

 

[Progrmor]

Hi, I have unfortunately had a chameleon pass because of this. It was too late by the time i removed the roach. I would say if you are for sure the chameleon is choking. Remove the roach. In my case i could see most of the roach covering the glottis.

Im sorry for your cham
Okey, but I thought maybe she would get so streesed out by me touching her mouth that she would die even easier so I didn´t know what to do.
Thanks for the tip!

 

[camimom]

contrary to popular belief, chams arent going to die if they get stressed out for a few minutes.

better to stress her out and remove the roach, then let her choke.

 

[nightanole]

contrary to popular belief, chams arent going to die if they get stressed out for a few minutes.

better to stress her out and remove the roach, then let her choke.

The parents on the other hand...

 

[camimom]

The parents on the other hand...

Heh, very true. I think they do things on purpose, just to stress us out.

 

[laurie]

We need to find the book our chams read that tells them all the ways to stress. I know they all have the Book!!

 

[NHenn]

We need to find the book our chams read that tells them all the ways to stress. I know they all have the Book!!

Hahaha, I agreee! I was always so afraid of stressing them out over something until I got some experience with administering medication and working with a rescue. If they can deal with assisted feeding and oral medication everyday for weeks on end I'm not too worried about a little extra stress here and there on a healthy chameleon.