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Marsha, I work at home and I check on them every hour or two. I spot clean on sight and I do a major clean up at least once a week. They are all very regular so this is madatory, either for their healthy and for our sake because the house stinks =P
That doesn't work for him because he has a weird behaviour. Every other Bearded Dragon will poo somewhere and move away. Sometimes they have a dirty foot or tail but most times they are clean and the poop is "immaculate".
With this fellow I've never seem an untouched poop. The best ones are spread in big lumps across a quarter of his enclosure but most times there are only traces across the *entire* enclosure and himself, of course. Every time he poops I have to clean the entire enclosure and leave him soaking untill the dried poop comes off (sorry for being so graphic).
Today I went to feed them in the morning and I noticed he had pooped earlier. I never clean poo before breakfast so I fed them their veggies and a couple of hours later when I returned to clean it and for the main dish of invertebrates, he still had some salad on his plate but no more poo.
I'm mainly worried about two things:
- Although he's growing and gaining weight at a regular rate, looking and acting healthy, somewhere along the way his intestinal inhabitants will flood the rest of his digestive system. What can happen?
- If the worst happen, I'm maybe putting the rest of my animals at risk.
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Wish list: Blue Tongue Skinks and Uruplatus =)
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