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My wife is CVT. There was a female beardie that was braught in last week to be put down. The vet didnt want to do that so the person surrendered it to me and my wife.
I am angry because the next day the real owners came in and the mom said " I thaught we where doing everything right"
I want to slap her so bad, the animal was in obvious stress as she was discolored and lithargic. She wouldnt eat. The owners claim to have been giveing her dusted crickets but no veggies or fruits, nor was she under any kind of a light.
Need less to say the animal died.
My wife did a necropcy with the vet friday and the animal was blocked as I suspected. They had her on sand box sand. she was blocked with sand and aspin bedding.
Ya know, it only takes a few minutes to research proper care for any animal!!!
ok venting over...
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I feel your pain.

Animal rescue is full of ups and downs. Luckily in the long run there are generally more ups, so don't give up.

I took in 2 dragons that were abandoned at another rescue last fall. Their names were Raxx and Rhea. When I first saw them I was appalled. They were both 6 years old and around 18". Raxx weighed about 210 and Rhea weighed only 187. I had never seen such emaciated dragons and didn't think they had much of a chance. Sadly Raxx succumbed about 10 days later.

Rhea was the fighter. Rhea turned out to be a hea, not a shea. So now I have a 7 year old 450 gram boy named Rhea. He is just about the sweetest a dragon can be and was well with the time and effort to continue his life.

Well thank you... It is frustrating for me. I have been keeping and breeding reptiles for over 20 years and thou I know that I am not an expert I also know that getting the basic care (the understanding of) doesnt take a lot of effert.
Then when some one does have an animal that does go down hill, they have 101 excusses as to why and ya know it never seems to be their fault.
Anyway, I thank you for your reply and I am glad you had an animal that did survive.
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