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More bad luck
Our male contracted a problem with his hemipenes, which is why we saw him licking it all the time. We've been told it's one of those "nothing you coulda done" things, so it's not my fault (just like Petri). Anyways, I DID notice the licking, which we thought was a bit odd considering our breeding female wasn't very attached to him and the little female was always running around like a moron. I also noticed a bit of shaking in the legs when walking- NOT Metabolic Bone Disease, trust me, I know that when I see it (again, Petri w/ underlying conditions). It was more of a weakness. Then I noticed, a few days ago, that Pika didn't want cickets for the first time...odd, cause he loves them...but thought it was just him being picky or he had already had his fill on the crestie diet offered earlier.
We caught him the other day, hemipenes everted...well half of them...covered in blood. We found the remnants of the other one, chewed off, on the floor. We immediately removed him and seperated him, called every vet in town (big shock, nobody wants to touch it) and came to a reptile rescue locally run. He is highly reguarded and suggested the infection and that it is PERFECTLY NORMAL for a reptile to chew off an infected part to save their life...we had no idea, again, not our fault as said by this highly esteemed individual.
We now find ourselves with a neuter who may or may not be bleeding (we think not). He is making a shocking recovering; he's a bit skinnier but definately back to his old ways. He's 100% taken care of, though, so he should make a full recovery, unless, once again, fate strikes us in a bad way. I swear I will NEVER get the image of him painfully chewing off the infected "area" out of my mind. But, nonetheless, I'm there for him as always, working late into the night to fight the good fight.
At least as a positive, our croc skinks are showing nesting behaviour by moving substrate from unused portions of the cage to I have no idea where, which likely means they are nesting in the back, away from the open areas (next egg due in 4 weeks).
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