Hi Wayne, I too am sorry for calling you by your last name.

The point is, what makes a captive healthy is proper captive husbandry.

Vets have little to no experience on what proper husbandry is.

For instance, vets can examine a monitor and do fecals, and bloodwork etc. prescribe drugs etc. But have you ever been to a vets that has monitor cages with 150F basking areas????? or even any basking area????????? Or deep substrate, etc

Those types of things are what keep monitors healthy, so you would think it would also be necessary for sick monitors. And it is.

Please nothing against Vets, I have some very good friends that are vets and reptile specialists too. Its just our area of interest is so small, they cannot provide specific care just for the few monitors that come in a year.

Cheers

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