Help get treatment for a leopard gecko.
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Hello everyone, thank you for stopping by to check out my page. During this past winter, as the days became colder and colder, my little gecko– like all other geckos, stopped eating. This is a normal process for leopard geckos called brumation. What wasn’t normal, however, was when he still hadn’t eaten regularly for the next two months. At first, I wasn’t worried. He was eating, albeit not even half as much as he usually would. Typically he’s got a big appetite!
It became apparent to me when he stopped eating altogether that something was not okay with him. Along with his refusal to eat, he’d also begun showing off strange mannerisms he’d not shown before. Rubbing his face along the side of his tank decorations. Scratching himself like a dog. And looking as though his eye was hurting him by keeping it closed often, and shying away from moving his head around. Two years ago, when I bought Lemmy, I had a part time job with which I had saved up what I thought would be enough money for emergencies. Sadly, I was unable to continue working there. Over the winter almost all of what I’d saved up was used for bills and keeping food on the table. Thankfully, I still had enough by the time I went to the vet’s to have Lemmy checked out. But it was the last of my funds and I am currently broke. I have been living on ramen and trying my hardest to find work and save up anything I can find to take him in for another checkup after his round of medication is finished. They found that he had at least one type of parasite when they checked him. But since he hadn’t been eating consistently, he wasn’t defecating consistently either. Because of this, there was no telling if he had other parasites aside from what I’m currently treating him for. Please, help me help my little grump in this effort to get him back to good health. Thank you for reading. Please share if you know anyone who can offer some support.
