Dragon:

I have been pretty pleased at how she has been doing. Her eating has picked up. I only give her some extra liquid by syringe most of the time now. She doesn't eat a lot though but I make it so she gets more per bite. I now just use greens in the slurry--mostly collards. I take the liquid part of the slurry and use that in her syringe for hydration if I need to. The thick part I toss the greens and vegetable salad in it. I also use the liquid to make her RepCal. When I give her some liquid from the syringe she rushes to her food dish and eats. She looks at me like "Ok, I'll eat". She seems to be basking more now also. I now tub her and she poops daily. She hates it though and will poop before tubbing time. I put her in anyway for a small bit to get her skin moistened. When she hasn't pooped, she will almost immediately so she can get out. She hasn't gained much of her weight back if any weight but I am not pushing that any longer--she hasn't lost any more either. I am now sure the vet was right about the high white blood count being due to inflammation rather than infection. I feel that her twisted back got where it couldn't handle the weight she had. She seems to be doing well at the weight she is now.
Huff:

When I got back from my Southern excursion, I took Huff to get his stitches out. He made a huge mess in his pillowcase and refused to come out but she got the stitches removed anyway. He acted like she was causing him a lot of pain but she assured me he was just being a PITA. She said the incision looked great and I could bathe him. He has been in season and has had the winter blahs too. So he hasn't been eating much either. I been tossing his food in the slurry and he seems to be doing good on it. Well he hasn't been going poop everyday but after the vet visit he didn't go for over a week. So I decided to tub him. My arms ended up looking like I had taken a razor to them but I finally got him in and the doors closed. Told him he wasn't going to come out till he pooped. Well he tried for several minutes to wildly get out but finally pooped a huge load. So the next day I tubbed him again and he pooped another huge load like the day before--he hadn't eaten that much. So I guess he was literally full of stuff. The next day he did a normal amount. So I have been tubbing him daily now. But I made the huge mistake of telling him he was a "good boy" one day. The next day he refused to poop. Every time I opened the door to see if he pooped he give me a look like "I am not going to do it". Well I was more stubborn than him and he went. Tried for a few more days but again I won. Now he goes pretty quickly. His jowels are beginning to puff out some but still no brain bumps though.
Baby:

Her I'm still not as pleased about. Her tail is thinning. She was reguritating sometimes when I gave her slurry so I was concerned that maybe something was wrong with her digestive system but the vet did not think so. So I decided to try something. I fed her just the RepCal soaked and soaked wheat bread and she did not have a problem with that. She also been eating solid food but way less than Dragon. So for now I am doing her food like the others but give her more RepCal--can't get her to take liquids with the syringe like I can Dragon without her spitting it back out. I feel the stress was making her regurgitate. She gets tubbed daily also. She tries to poop before tubbing like Dragon--all of them hate bathing. She has had problems with pooping since her back fracture but the vet said she would. Once in a while she can go right away but usually it takes her moving around to get out of the tub to get her to go. But she does go each day now.
So that is what is going on with them.

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Thanks for the update, Marie. It's good to hear that they've settled in to the new home and routine fairly well.

How often do you give a probiotic supplement? I wonder if that would help with the girls' appetites.

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I use Nutribac df at least weekly. Been giving it to them for almost a year.

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Marie, how exactly do you get them to open their mouths so you can put the syringe in?

Glad to hear things are a little better with them Marie - maybe not as good as you would like but they have settled from the move so that's a start

Anthony,
It is actually something you wouldn't do other than as a last resort. Then only after being shown by someone like a vet. Because if you do not get it far enough back you can aspirate them. And if they do like Baby and regurgitate then they can aspirate also. Dragon is a lot easier to do than Baby. Unfortunately given her medical background she has gotten used to being poked and prodded. I can get her to open by gently pulling on her dewlap. Now Baby it is just a waiting game. When I try pulling on her dewlap she shoves her head down instead of pulling away. So I just have to wait until she opens her mouth for something otherwise she will get stressed out and regurgitate.

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Marie,
That is so great!! I couldn't be happier for you. You obviously have worked very hard to get them healthy. Congrats to you and your babies Pics would be nice (hint hint).

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0.0.1 Mali Uromastyx (Spike)
1.2.0 Bearded Dragons (Hercules, Megora & Eeyore)
1.0.0 Bi-color Flame Point Himalayan (Koda)
1.2.0 Children (Dimitri, Mercedes, and Mariah)

Added the pictures tothe 1st post.

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Yay! Pictures! Everyone is looking like they are doing well!

(You can also see that your arms have been used as a scratching post) Mine look the same way, haha

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