RoscoeVeiled
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hi everyone - the vet wants my chameleon to be syringe fed because he hasn’t been eating and was sleeping during the day. The only problem is, he literally will not let me do it at all! He is so extremely stressed and right now I feel like it’s just going to make everything worse. He ate today because they syringe fed him. Should I just leave him for the rest of today? His lights go off at 9pm. Any suggestions on how to get him to syringe feed? I just covered his cage with a blanket (left the lights on) because he was that stressed. I honestly have no idea what to do..... obviously he needs to eat but they said 0.5ml twice a day... just feel like that stress is going to make it much worse.. plus the syringe food shoots out so hard and I don’t really know how to get it to go slower because I saw the picture of the glottis and esophagus location and I’m afraid if it goes too fast he’ll aspirate.