This afternoon I went to the pet store to get crickets for my crew. I also went to check on the baby leo that the store has had in a cage with a much larger leo. the baby has been on the verge of death ever since I noticed it about a week ago. The first time I saw it, it was as I said, with the gecko nearly twice its size and the crickets it was being fed were a good deal larger than the baby's head. There was no calcium on the crickets or in a dish and only a heat rock for heat. the water bowl was too deep for the poor thing to drink from properly and it looked TERRIBLE. its tail is bone thin with absolutely no fat reserve there whatsoever. the hip bones are jutting up, his skin is sagging off his ribcage and his legs have virtually no muscle whatsoever. he was listless and I yelled at the pet store people until they said they would move him to his own cage. The next time I came in he was still in the cage. I threw an even bigger fit until they again promised to move him. the next visit he was moved but they didn't even have a heat rock with him! no heat light! no NOTHING! I chewed them out again, utterly furious and they said they would move him again. so I came in this afternoon and he was in his own cage, with heat rock but he was laying as if drowned in the water bowl (still too deep for him). the pet shop employee made to take him out of the cage and he moved, surprising her that he was still alive at all. I was livid by this time and told her I would take him. Now what I want to know is this: is he even worth trying to save or should I simply put an end to his misery. he can walk and will drink a little bit of water when I drip it on his nose but his underbelly looks mostly black. I'm worried that there is something that is wrong with his internal organs. This poor little thing looks to be only a month old. should I take him to the vet only to have him say that the little guy is doomed or is there something that might still be done? sorry for the long post but I need to know what to do.

Thanks in advance.

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• HELP! VERY SICK GECKO! - Aesear, Tue Jul 15 20:04:09 2003
• *sob* Wish I could help =( n/p - pspguy, Tue Jul 15 20:06:13 2003
• RE: HELP! VERY SICK GECKO! - LeoEyes, Tue Jul 15 21:41:36 2003
• RE: HELP! VERY SICK GECKO! - dragonlady01, Tue Jul 15 22:45:46 2003
• Also- - armiyana, Wed Jul 16 05:00:27 2003
• RE: HELP! VERY SICK GECKO! - tke, Mon Aug 18 12:08:44 2003