Well...here we go again...maybe.
Zoe has been spending time on the floor of his enclosure again. He LOOKS alert, and well hydrated. His eyes are wide open...never sleeping during the day, not at all sunken. He's been drinking on his own for a while now...but has NOT eaten since that day about three weeks ago that he ate all those crikets on his own. I've still been feeding him the repti-aide, because he won't eat on his own. He used to hunt in the mornings...so I've tried feeding him the suppliment in the evening...I've also tried switching it up, and doing the reverse...but...nothing. He completely ignores the wax worms, so they became cricket food. He won't touch a mealie, so...same thing...I beheaded them, and feed them to the crickets.
He is going through a shed right now...but I don't see how that would cause him to want to sit, all hunkered down, on the floor of his home.
I just don't get it! I really feel that I'm forcing a cham to live, that really doesn't want to, or doesn't have the ability to survive on his own any more.
It has been since MARCH that he has eaten regularly on his own...and in that time, there has only been TWO times that he has eaten on his own. Only two times in two and half months!!!
The thing is...I really don't mind syringe feeding him, it's not that. It's just that I have to wonder about his overall quality of life. There has to be a reason that he just doesn't hunt on his own!
If he is getting sick again, I think this time I will just let him go...not suffer or anything like that...but I can't keep forcing him to LIVE.
I could just CRY!!!
