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I allready cried this morning i feel so bad for him. THERE IS ONLY ONE! ONE! VET AROUND HERE THAT WILL TAKE REPTILES IN! THEY WANT A 100$ OFFICE CALL! AND THEY WONT TAKE PAYMENTS. I DONT KNOW ABOUT YOU GUYS BUT I DONT HAVE LIKE 300$ TO MY NAME RIGHT NOW TO TAKE MY IGUANA, IN.. BUT I WANT HIM TO BE OKAY WHAT SHOULD I DO!!! OVER NIGHT HE DIDNT MOVE ONCE, I PUT HIM UP ON HIS BASKIN ROCK AND HE DIDNT MOVE THE WHOLE NIGHT
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0.1 Green Iguana (Skinnered)
1.1 eastern blue tongue skinks (Pixie and Dixie)
1 IndianXBurm (Cuddles, 5foot)
0.1 Albino burm (Lestat 3foot)
2.1 Ball pythons Davey, Burgees, Twinkie (3-4foot)
0.1 Columbian Red tail boa (Chester 4foot)
1.0 Savannah monitor (Dino-LeeZard 1foot)
1.0 Albino Australian Shepherd (Sheepy)
1.0 Parakeet (Trucker)
1.1 Kitties (Jizzer and Miss Kitty)

Is it possible that your Iggy is just getting use to his new enviroment? Gettting use to all the new sounds? I stated in a few other posts that my iggy chilled WAY OUT for a while. Even let me pick him up with no fuss. This is about when I started giving him baths and built him a new cage. He also for the most part stopped eating. His eating has not increased at all - which really ticks me off and makes me worry - but he has become more active again. He fights me to pick him up -which I actually like, shows me he is getting back to normal - and he is constantly trying to get out of his cage. This all originally started about 3 weeks ago or so and for the last couple of days he has become "fiesty" again. Before he quit eating he was eating like a hoarse. Now that his energy is back, I am hoping that he will start eating alot again. He is only taking a couple of bites a day right now.
When he was in "chill-mode" he was barely moving. I was really getting worried until like I said, he is really active now and scootin' all over his new big cage that I built. I don't know what was/is going on. Mating season?????
In fact my girlfriend and I were commenting last night, that for not eating, he really looks healthy and not like he is loosing very much wieght at all.
try getting a good diet into him. Lay him next to some food. give him a bath. just take care of him and baby him. Maybe when he gets used to his surroundings and he gets some nutrients into him, then he will start feeling better.
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Mike
0.0.1 Green Iguana
0.0.1 Pac Man Frog
0.2.0 Albino African Clawed Frog
1.0.0 BIG Golden Retriever 105 lbs

It's probably not that serious... Like I said, he's probably malnurished. I know what you mean about the reptile vet thing. I live in Buffalo, where there are at least 2 herp vets here, but they both heavily over charge and won't accept any payment plans, which is horrible. One of the vets only seems to know a great deal about snakes. Then the one I take my Sir Iggy to has iguanas of her own, but doesn't really know too much about my geckos. And both of them only are in the office once a week. It's horrible. If I wasn't so squeamish, I'd go to school to become a herp vet myself.
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~*Chibi*~
Sir Iggy ( 1.0.0 El Salvador Blue Iguana), Ryo-ohki, Orion, Bud, & Finnegan (3.1.0 crazy kitties), Rosebud (0.1.0 cockerspaniel), and Kayko (0.0.1 leopard gecko)

I know, I mean I was balling earlier, I'm only 18, but I make sure my herps are always healthy! I have quite alot for being 18, but Vets make me so upset. One time I found a kitten outside about 9 days old, I took it in and fed it myself. Well one day he woke up not breathing good, I took it to the vet, they wanted 400$ right then! I mean.. Im 18! My parents dont even have 400$ just to give out like that. so they told me I would have to pay 40$ to get it put to sleep, then i had to take it home and bury it myself. its ridiculous!
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0.1 Green Iguana (Skinnered)
1.1 eastern blue tongue skinks (Pixie and Dixie)
1 IndianXBurm (Cuddles, 5foot)
0.1 Albino burm (Lestat 3foot)
2.1 Ball pythons Davey, Burgees, Twinkie (3-4foot)
0.1 Columbian Red tail boa (Chester 4foot)
1.0 Savannah monitor (Dino-LeeZard 1foot)
1.0 Albino Australian Shepherd (Sheepy)
1.0 Parakeet (Trucker)
1.1 Kitties (Jizzer and Miss Kitty)

That's crazy. I'm a college student with a two year old, so I'm on a very fixed income myself. November I had something similar happen to me with a baby leopard gecko I had just gotten from an online dealer. Not even 3 days after getting it, it got impacted because the dealer had him on sand and I didn't know that. I went to an emergency vet, because not one vet in the whole city had any appts available for at least a week, and the emergency vet charged me $200 to take an xray, $100 for the appt. At the end of the appt, after telling me how much the bill was, the vet said that there was nothing she could do and the gecko was so small they couldn't even operate. Why would she even take the xray? So, yeah, that set me back quite a bit. And then a vet almost put my cat to sleep when there was a mix-up in the collars or something. He was just supposed to stay there overnight after being neutered. I showed up the next day to pick him up and he was in the room that they put the animals to sleep in. What most vets don't seem to realize is that most people regard their pets as family, and they aren't just a means of making money off of. But don't get me wrong, there are still a lot of decent vets too. Just not enough herp ones.
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~*Chibi*~
Sir Iggy ( 1.0.0 El Salvador Blue Iguana), Ryo-ohki, Orion, Bud, & Finnegan (3.1.0 crazy kitties), Rosebud (0.1.0 cockerspaniel), and Kayko (0.0.1 leopard gecko)

I can't believe they almost put your cat to sleep! How awful!

I'm blessed with a very good herp/bird/exotics vet... she's the vet for the zoo, and knows her exotics inside and out. She's also patient with me and with my critters But it wasn't always that way. I went through three bad vets before I found her. One claimed they knew birds, then butchered their wings badly on a simple wing clip. That was almost a year ago, and my sennie has some cut feathers that still haven't been replaced.

A customer where I work was referred to a particular chain vet clinic (vet clinics should NOT come in chains) for her guinea pig and was refused emergency care because they were 'sick of those people always referring the small animals to us'. The piggy died that night.

My dog, who lives with my mom for a variety of reasons, had surgery on an abcessed tooth yesterday. When I called to see how he was doing, my mom said he was in a lot of pain. I asked what pain killers they put him on. None. They gave him amoxocillian to fight off the infection, but hadn't bothered giving him a prescription for pain. Geez! Even when my cockatiel lost her toe, they gave her a pain medication along with an antibiotic. That's another thing that burns me about some vets: not all of them practice pain management.

Yeah. It's hard to find a good vet, but once you do you really appreciate them... especially after you've been through some bad ones.
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~Alika~
1.0.0 green iguanas
0.1.0 cockatiels
1.0.0 senegal parrots
0.1.0 blue-fronted amazons
0.0.1 red belly piranha