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kinyonga
at Fri Jun 29 11:34:02 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by kinyonga ]
If you can find a way to feed him and give him the treatment that he needs, it might be possible for him to recover enough that his life will still be okay. Take him to a vet so that the vet. The vet can give him injections of calcium for a couple of weeks and follow it with an injection of calcitonin which draws the calcium back into the bones rapidly. This would make his recovery shorter than any other treatment that I know of. When using calcitonin, your vet will have to make sure that the blood levels of the calcium are high enough so that the chameleon doesn't go into shock.
If you decide to have it put down...please, take it to a vet to have it done. Freezing, decapitation and other methods that you might try at home are not acceptable....they cause undo pain and stress. Freezing causes a lot of pain when the fluids in the body crystalize. When decapitated, the chameleon's brain continues to function for some time after causing the chameleon distress and pain. Sorry to be so blunt with this topic...but I figured it something that people should know.
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- Sick Chameleon - danilo1, Fri Jun 29 01:49:22 2007
- RE: Sick Chameleon - pixie343, Fri Jun 29 10:59:15 2007
 RE: Sick Chameleon - kinyonga, Fri Jun 29 11:34:02 2007
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