About 8 weeks after I got my plump little guy he stopped eating and started to get lots of skin folds and wrinkles. So off to the vet.
I have a real good herp vet. She had difficulty getting his mouth open. She resorted to a tiny spatula which she pushed up under his upper teeth and pried down on his lower teeth. She bent the front of the jawbone enough to get the wormer in.
Two weeks later it was as bit easier because she found out that his snout was very painful at the tip, and probed there to get him to open his mouth. He's never done it in front of me, but he must be nose-rubbbing on the plastic door. I covered the bottom 6 inches so he can't see out when he's on the floor so hopefully he will stop that behavior. He gets Silvadede cream on it twice per day.
I'm supposed to feed him a nutrient supplement "prescription diet A/D". But he still won't open his mouth unless I bend his lower jaw and I'm agraid it will break. I refuse to inflict the pain of going through his snout tip.
Two weeks ago he got one dose of wormer (don't know which med) and 10 days of 2 cc's sub-Q fluids. His appetite did not return. He got his second dose of the wormer and I have 10 doses of sub-Q fluid/Baytril to be given every other day.
My question: do I dare pry his mouth open at all? It seems like I could break the bone? Have any of you experienced the same thing and carried out the vet's orders?
I would dearly love to give him his dietary supplement and on the off-days probiotics, but not at the risk of a broken jaw.
Also he has orders for daily soaks. I wonder, since he's not a juvvie but an adult, if all this atention is stressing him to the point of losing his appetite, with no hope for adaptation. The poor guy must still remember the trees in Honduras.
Comments?
Roger
(I'll never buy WC adult again. I'll always ask for references for the shipper's truth in advertising.)
