My healthy chameleon died in boarding

[jalenmj04]

You always think it wouldn’t happen to you until it does. My sweet boy Pascal died while he was being boarded when I was away. He wasn’t even 2 years old yet and had fecal tests with no health problems.
What steps do I take from here? I’m distraught at the current moment.

 

[nightanole]

Sorry for your loss. If it was a 2+ year old i would blame the boarder. However if you bend the rules and make him a "sub adult", they can die suddenly of congenial defects(organs) during their last growth phase when they are putting on the most weight per month.

In the second pic is does look pretty underweight, hes got two tail lines. The only weight lower than that is showing individual vertebra.

I still dont understand how it could happen. I mean im pretty sure i can put a healthy weight adult cham in a box with holes in it at room temp and come back 2 weeks later to a mildly health cham.

 

[Beman]

I am sorry for your loss. I know when you originally came to the forum and posted I offered guidance on feeding because he was underweight at a year old. There were things you were miss informed about that I helped you with then...

I am seeing lighting inside the chams cage which is not recommended. Could have been anything from overheating to something additional being wrong in husbandry that you did not know about when you did your only other post.

Chams hide illness as well. So normally it takes something that was ongoing to create a final decline. Things like parasites and a high stress event can do this. As mentioned some can have congenital defects as well. Some can go into renal failure. There is no way of telling.

 

[jalenmj04]

I am sorry for your loss. I know when you originally came to the forum and posted I offered guidance on feeding because he was underweight at a year old. There were things you were miss informed about that I helped you with then...

I am seeing lighting inside the chams cage which is not recommended. Could have been anything from overheating to something additional being wrong in husbandry that you did not know about when you did your only other post.

Chams hide illness as well. So normally it takes something that was ongoing to create a final decline. Things like parasites and a high stress event can do this. As mentioned some can have congenital defects as well. Some can go into renal failure. There is no way of telling.

He was extremely healthy and my lighting and setup was perfected for him over the last few months, the top pic is the most recent one. He would have and was completely fine inside of my enclosure, correct temp, humidity, live plants, fecal tests, etc. HE WAS HEALTHY.
I left him for 4 days before in his enclosure when I went on a trip a few months prior (everything automated), and he was perfectly fine. However this time he passes.
Considering all of these factors you can only blame the boarder for negligence.

 

[MissSkittles]

You would have had to have a necropsy done to determine his cause of death. Where did you board him - a vet, pet store, pet sitter, etc? I would think that you may have had to sign some sort of agreement or contract that may offer you some information regarding their liability. Again though, exact cause of death is important and without a necropsy, all one can do is guess.
I’m very sorry that this has happened and your handsome guy has passed. I wish you peace and healing. ((()))

 

[Carlton]

Without a necropsy the cause of death (and by extension who if anyone might have contributed to it) will remain a mystery. Sorry you lost him OP.