CinnamonGirl
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I’m a long time lurker here and loved the information I’ve gotten from the site and just joined today because my heart is broken. I have two Leos, both females and have them in separate tanks because they did not get along. We got Cinnamon girl, a tangerine Leo, last year from a local pet shop that rescued her from someone. She was about 2 years old and looked like she’s had gotten into a scrap or two before because one eyelid was a little scratched and looked like it healed up. So she’s always been a little skittish and not super social. She didn’t like to be misted, baths or to be handled very much. She was a great eater, could hunt crickets with the best of them and we loved her very much. As time went on she warmed up to us more and more.
Last month my son was getting her out of her tank when she leaped from his hand onto the hardwood floor about 3 feet below. She then appeared to have a seizure and went limp. Her jaw was crooked, bleeding and we suspected the worst. She lay in the warmth of my hand and I stroked her for a while and she slowly seemed to “wake up”. We took her to the vet and they confirmed the broken jaw. She seemed to have limited use of her back legs as well and seemed a little lethargic but this was getting better as time went on.
Over the next 4 weeks we hand fed her with some soupy protein stuff from the vet, administered pain meds and liquid calcium to Cinnamon Girl. Her personality was slowly coming back and she stopped losing weight so fast. We followed up with trips to the vet and they confirmed she was looking better and to keep doing whatever we had been doing. She seemed to enjoy the baths we were giving her and loved to just sit in the palm of our hands and fall asleep. She seemed sweeter than she had ever been. Her jaw was healing up nicely and although it was still crooked she could open & close it without any obvious difficultly.
Yesterday morning I checked on her and she was on the cool side of the tank. The heat lamp was still off this early and this was odd of her to be on the cool side. I took a closer look and she wasn’t moving. I picked her up to move her to the warming rock and found she must have passed during the night. I was horrified! I had bonded so close to this poor little gecko over the last year and especially over the last month with our feedings and baths. It looked like she had started to shed and passed on in the middle of a difficult shed. Sorry for the long first post but I am more heartbroken than I even know how to say! She was so sweet and I feel like we failed her. I don’t know what happened.
Last month my son was getting her out of her tank when she leaped from his hand onto the hardwood floor about 3 feet below. She then appeared to have a seizure and went limp. Her jaw was crooked, bleeding and we suspected the worst. She lay in the warmth of my hand and I stroked her for a while and she slowly seemed to “wake up”. We took her to the vet and they confirmed the broken jaw. She seemed to have limited use of her back legs as well and seemed a little lethargic but this was getting better as time went on.
Over the next 4 weeks we hand fed her with some soupy protein stuff from the vet, administered pain meds and liquid calcium to Cinnamon Girl. Her personality was slowly coming back and she stopped losing weight so fast. We followed up with trips to the vet and they confirmed she was looking better and to keep doing whatever we had been doing. She seemed to enjoy the baths we were giving her and loved to just sit in the palm of our hands and fall asleep. She seemed sweeter than she had ever been. Her jaw was healing up nicely and although it was still crooked she could open & close it without any obvious difficultly.
Yesterday morning I checked on her and she was on the cool side of the tank. The heat lamp was still off this early and this was odd of her to be on the cool side. I took a closer look and she wasn’t moving. I picked her up to move her to the warming rock and found she must have passed during the night. I was horrified! I had bonded so close to this poor little gecko over the last year and especially over the last month with our feedings and baths. It looked like she had started to shed and passed on in the middle of a difficult shed. Sorry for the long first post but I am more heartbroken than I even know how to say! She was so sweet and I feel like we failed her. I don’t know what happened.
