Miss Machine
New Member
Hi everyone,
For 6 months I was searching for a Mellers girl for my boy Melle. Melle is doin' great. Finally I found a store who had lots of melleri and had just one left.
A friend of mine bought her for me last thursday. When I got home from work that day, i looked at the animal and showed her to Melle. He displayed flickering with his earlobes, and was nodding his head and wagging his tail up and down. No aggressiveness..so I jumped up and down by the idea she might be a female. I also noticed she had a bump on the left lower side of her jaw. That night I decided to leave her be and check out the bump the next day.
Friday I did a check up on her. I rubbed the bump and the puss sprayed out!
Oh my!!! I rushed her into the bathroom to clean her mouth with 1% hydrogen peroxide. And then I discovered her whole mouth is rotting away.. I first cleaned the abcess but then wiped out her lower left row of teeth, then her upper left row of teeth, upper right was already gone and lower right was also loose.. NOOOO i screamed!! This animal suffers so much.
I have antibiotics at home (marbofloxacin) so I measured the dosage based on her weight and gave her the medicine. I also called the store and I could bring her back and get my money back. But i don't want that. I want to try to save her....bringing her back certainly means death.
I soo hope that I can save her life, but wonder if she can survive not having any teeth. Her jawbones, or what's left of them, are so fragile.
Can a chameleon eat 'normal' having no teeth or fragile jawbones after it recovers from this infection?
I try to hydrate her very well by letting her drink as much as she can. As recoveryfood I give her mashed up rosebeetlelarvae (large beetle larvae) for now...I clean her mouth once a day with the hydrogen peroxide solution and give her 3 drops of the antibiotic.
Poor thing...I just hope she doesn't die of all the stress and pain
For 6 months I was searching for a Mellers girl for my boy Melle. Melle is doin' great. Finally I found a store who had lots of melleri and had just one left.
A friend of mine bought her for me last thursday. When I got home from work that day, i looked at the animal and showed her to Melle. He displayed flickering with his earlobes, and was nodding his head and wagging his tail up and down. No aggressiveness..so I jumped up and down by the idea she might be a female. I also noticed she had a bump on the left lower side of her jaw. That night I decided to leave her be and check out the bump the next day.
Friday I did a check up on her. I rubbed the bump and the puss sprayed out!
Oh my!!! I rushed her into the bathroom to clean her mouth with 1% hydrogen peroxide. And then I discovered her whole mouth is rotting away.. I first cleaned the abcess but then wiped out her lower left row of teeth, then her upper left row of teeth, upper right was already gone and lower right was also loose.. NOOOO i screamed!! This animal suffers so much. I have antibiotics at home (marbofloxacin) so I measured the dosage based on her weight and gave her the medicine. I also called the store and I could bring her back and get my money back. But i don't want that. I want to try to save her....bringing her back certainly means death.
I soo hope that I can save her life, but wonder if she can survive not having any teeth. Her jawbones, or what's left of them, are so fragile.
Can a chameleon eat 'normal' having no teeth or fragile jawbones after it recovers from this infection?
I try to hydrate her very well by letting her drink as much as she can. As recoveryfood I give her mashed up rosebeetlelarvae (large beetle larvae) for now...I clean her mouth once a day with the hydrogen peroxide solution and give her 3 drops of the antibiotic.
Poor thing...I just hope she doesn't die of all the stress and pain
