Silver spot on tail!!!

[MarieMc44]

Can anyone tell me what this silver-ish spot is on my baby's tail? I'm freakin' out (probably overly) and I've got my vet on speed dial!! Any insight would be much appreciated!!

 

[jannb]

It looks like his tail was smashed, maybe in the cage door. I have seen them look like that before. I recommend putting some Silver Sulfadiazine Cream on it. You will have to get that from your vet.

 

[MarieMc44]

Oh man, thank you so much!! Does it take a while to go away? So it's some kind of bruising? He's still curling and using it so can I assume he's not in too much pain?!?

 

[jannb]

Oh man, thank you so much!! Does it take a while to go away? So it's some kind of bruising? He's still curling and using it so can I assume he's not in too much pain?!?

He should be fine as long as it doesn't get infected. I would put some neosporin on it until you can get the Silver Sulfadiazine. It happen to my little girl Lottie's tail right before I got her. I took her to the vets and he just had me use the Silver Sulfadiazine and keep a close eye on it. It might have been a little worse than your boy's and the end of her tail dried up and fell off but you would never know it now.

 

[MorganC25]

Burn

When I first got my panther, I brought him home from the place I got him and discovered a large black gray patch on his belly, I called the store and they said it must be a burn from when he was a baby, wish they told me earlier! But he is still a great Cham and the burn doesn't seem to bother him. I've been told after another couple sheds the patch will begin to fade, does anybody know if this is true?