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I took one of my females out and noticed she had poop stuck in her vent. I removed the poop and saw this. It appears to be some type of blood filled sack, maybe a hernia??? any clues???

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Bennett

Home Of The Florida Orange
www.beardiedragon.com

I had a snake with the exact same thing. Ay least it looks the same. In my case it was an abcess. Usually caused by a piece of sand or dirt that gets in the vent and it becomes infected. The resulting infection creates the abcess around whatever started the problem in the first place. The vet gave my snake a local and then lanced the abcess and cleaned the interior out well. It healed just fine but there was some remaining "fleshy material",for a lack of better words, after it healed. Mine was actually on the snakes vent flap and not in the vent itself. It did not affect breeding for her at all. She didn't even need antibiotics.

Mike
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Now I am really not sure. I guess it could be an abcess. My best guess would be a possible prolapse. Now I know you said female but I have heard of females doing that. Not sure how it happens, but it does. I hope its nothing serious. Good luck.

My Dragon had the same thing a few weeks back. At the time she had just come off of several antibiotics. My guess is that for my girl that it was an abcess b/c of destroying the dragons normal flora and allowing oppurtunist to get a foothold. I don't think I would ever go through the amount of meds I did a few months ago. Vets will prescribe anything and don't realize that many times they are hurting the animal more then helping. If the animal is healthy and it is not an immediate issue then I don't even like taking them in. In no way is that advice in your situaton. I am just vented on some of my stuff. If you take her in let me know what happens.
Good Luck!!
-Randy
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AlphaDragonZ
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well I got a call from Cheri (the answer lady) with what appeards to be the answer. Yes it is a prolapse, a cloacael prolapse. 10 minutes in sugar water followed by some lubrication and a gentle push and it appears to be back in place. Since there is the possability of it being caused by gram negative nasties, she will probably go to the vet when he opens, definately if it reappears again.

Thanks again Cheri.
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Bennett

Home Of The Florida Orange
www.beardiedragon.com

you ever noticed they ALWAYS do these things on Saturday night or Sunday on a 3 day weekend????? It's like they KNOW the Vets office is closed...... silly dragons!

Just follow the other ideas or the same thing if it repeats, it was not a bad one, so I think just upping hydration will help and get the fecal to the vets on Tueday to rule our parasite, worms or bacteria causing it.

Best to you and her
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www.reptilerooms.com

hi
yep i also notice beardies get ofthend sick /r acidents happen when its weeekend
you almost thinking they do it on purpose
byeeeeeee

Always the worst weekends , holidays and during the middle of the night! LOL
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Eve

do the same thing when the vet walks in..... suddenly up and active and alert.

Sandy was only about 6 months old when I noticed she had a slight popping sound when she was up near my ear and she was being lazy a lot and had stopped eating, so I took her to the vet.

It was so embarassing, he has a fake palm in his office and she was insistant on trying to eat it, then when the vet saw her and was holding her, she kept trying to eat his tie like she was starving, I mean she was obsessed with his tie and he had to fight her to get it out of her throat once.... while I am explaining that she is not eating... pfft.. kids!

She did have a slight RI so it was good I took her, but she really embarassed me about trying to eat everything, especially when he offered her some romaine and she gobbled it up... I almost left her there!!
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I know what your saying they make LIARS of us, and we feel like idiots,

Cute story, with the tie. Vet probably figured, DANG, when was the last time that dragon got feed, hahahhahaha (kidding)

Happened to me when I took one of my very old sheep dogs to the vet. Needed some dental work.
I said while he's here, might as well cut his nails, as lately hes very GRUMPY, when I do it.

I went on for 5 minutes about how he growled low at me now, shows his DISPLEASURE with the whole ordeal, blah blah.....

That sucker sat there, like a big sweet heart, never moved as they cut each nail. LOL

I could have BOOTED EM!!!

Any way back to dragons, HOPFULLY, Bennets guy will be fine!
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Eve

she seems to be doing fine today, so it looks like Cheri's procedure worked and is holding. Thanks again Cheri.

BTW, a funny dog/vet story
I was traveling cross country with friends who had a husky and 2 toy poodles. somewhere around Denver, one of the poodles started to cry and lick her paw as if their was a problem. If you touched her foot she would cry. She was obviously in distress so we looked for a vet in the yellow pages. After spending over an hour in the waiting room holding and comforting her we finally got to see the vet.

...you guessed it, she pranced around like nothing was ever wrong. She was such a drama queen, looking for attention.
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Bennett

Home Of The Florida Orange
www.beardiedragon.com

and yep animals sure do make idiots out of us humans at times, hehehhee !
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Eve