Posted by Carrie on July 27, 2000 at 12:23:59:
Thank you all for you advice on getting this baby eating. I wanted to give you all a little more background since everyone seemed to have the same question - "where did she come from?"
This is the ig that I posted a little while ago that I needed to find a home for her. What happened is that her owners brought her in to be euthanized becuase "she had got too big to handle." Apparently their teenage sone had got bit (which she is probably not to blame for) and they wanted to put her down. Apparently they were at least her second owners, since the people who owned her before had moved and left her in the apartment downstairs from these folks. *This poor kid*
Anyway, my vet, knowing that she was healthy, spayed and in need of someone that could care for her properly, called me. He knew that I had been thinking about possibly getting another ig after Trex passed away and he thought that even if I didn't keep her, I would at least know someone else that could take care of her. So he convinced the owners to give her to him, but they don't want me to know who they are because they are afraid that if she bites someone else they will get sued. I guess that's understandable.
So, back to the eating - I have done the bath thing every day so far - she even pooped in her waterbox yesterday instead of on my floor. *YAY!* I have tried the greens "on the leaf" thing, too. She already is home alone all day, so I don't think that privacy is the issue. What I really need, I think, is something like the appetite stimulant you all recomended, because I think she is just stressed. I will, however go out and buy some fruit to see if she wants that. Now I just need to find out where to get this Stimulap.
Well, I guess that about covers everything. Please let me knwo if any of you know of someone in MA that would like to take this poor baby home, as I have decided that we cannot keep her.
Thanks again.