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Young Dragon with Snout and Tail Damage

tanias16 Oct 19, 2005 10:34 AM

I know I've told this story before, but here is all the info again:

My mother adopted an abandoned water dragon a couple of weeks ago. It had recently lost its tail and has some obvious major snout damage from being in a glass aquarium. She is now in a 7ft by 4ft triangular cage with plenty of bathing area and climbing room. She is eating regularly, although she doesn't seem to want to eat crickets. They are feeding her red worms, mealworms, and the occasional wax worm. She seems to have nice healthy bones, which was a huge relief. I keep calling it "her" but I'm not 100% on the sex yet, she's still pretty young.
I wanted to post some pictures of her. I keep taking a look at her mouth, but I just can't decide if its healed or still healing. My parents live out in the boonies so they haven't been able to find a local vet yet. She isn't showing any other problems or symptoms of an infection at this point. I wanted to get a picture of the inside of her mouth, but she wasn't going to have that.
Here are the pictures:

Young Waterdragon with snout and tail damage

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~~Tania~~
Jake (Chinese Water Dragon)
Mosley (Maltese Shi Tzu Mix)
RIP Mary and Peter (Med. Geckos)

Replies (1)

Rick Gordon Oct 19, 2005 01:04 PM

I would lean towards it being a "he", He has a large nape and head, although still immature, so I could be wrong. The mouth appears to have healed, if there isn't any cheese material coming from it, I wouldn't be concerned. He looks plenty big enough for pinkies, small fuzzies, and zoophobas.

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