Back from the dead?? :o) !!!!!!!

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Posted by Ally's Mom on October 07, 2000 at 17:29:17:

Well.....um....the good news is that Ally appears to be fine today. After he was 'dead' for about six hours I became desperate. I remembered reviving a mouse once with some heated honey water. I know, bacteria etc., but I was thinking Ally was dead anyway. I even had an appointment with the vet for a necroposy!! So I dribbled the honey water on his lips. No reaction. Some even went in his eye, as he had his neck craned straight upwards. I flushed out the eye. (By now my friends *know* I have lost it!) That lizard had NO life signs at all. Even the cats, who now had access to this tasty treat, were uninterested. Fifteen minutes after the honey drizzle I looked down from above, and there he was just standing there with his cute little eyes staring up at me. I was so excited, I phoned my older daughter and told her the good news, and my friend who thought I was nuts ministering to a dead thing. Looked in on my little darling again. Dead. Scrunched up like in a fatal epiletic fit in another bottom corner of the cage - with his tail sticking up. Eyes wide open, unseeing. I touched him...dead as a doornob. No breathing either. ~sigh~. Call daughter again. Yell at Ally. Dribble more honey water over his mouth. Later, young daughter comes home, and I break the news to her. She tearfully goes over to say goodbye to Ally. Looks in the cage and says quietly, "Yeah right Mom. Are you blind or just insane?" I look, and here's Ally on his favourite basking branch. I give up!!! Was it the honey? Or was it this 'brumating' thing Igmom was talking about?? Did he have a bad dream and have a mild heart attack? Why is he in such terror of *anything* now? Maybe its a little-known defense mechanism to play dead?
He finally ate something today - 4 mealworms. Now we'll wait for the poopies.
btw, Ally is an iguanid - a spiny-tail with a dangerous stegosaurus-looking tail. He is the smallest of the spinys at about 51/2 inches S-V, and to me seems to have little in commom with the other spineys. He has been raised for the two years I've had him almost exclusively on ig salad. He apparently does need some protein, so I have been supplementing with little mealworms (that also eat ig salad!)in the last year. There is NO information on these guys anywhere. One guy breeds them on the cteno forum, and he can't find any info on these particualar spinys either. So, if Ally's in trouble -- I think what works for GGI's will work somewhat for him. (The best that my vet -- who called all over hell's half acre -- could come up with is that there is no such lizard in cativity as Ally!) I'll try and post a pic. Thank you - chanting CAN help!!!

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Re: Back from the dead?? :o) !!!!!!! wednes 10/10/00 (0)
Outta curiosity.... xta 10/08/00 (0)
I don't have a clue to spinys,,but we're chanting,,nm sue1 10/08/00 (0)
Not sure but...... Harry's Dad 10/07/00 (2)
- Re: Not sure but...... Ally's Mom 10/08/00 (0)
- Hmmmm, my spiny is a similis, at least we're pretty sure that's.... jif 10/07/00 (0)

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: Well.....um....the good news is that Ally appears to be fine today. After he was 'dead' for about six hours I became desperate. I remembered reviving a mouse once with some heated honey water. I know, bacteria etc., but I was thinking Ally was dead anyway. I even had an appointment with the vet for a necroposy!! So I dribbled the honey water on his lips. No reaction. Some even went in his eye, as he had his neck craned straight upwards. I flushed out the eye. (By now my friends *know* I have lost it!) That lizard had NO life signs at all. Even the cats, who now had access to this tasty treat, were uninterested. Fifteen minutes after the honey drizzle I looked down from above, and there he was just standing there with his cute little eyes staring up at me. I was so excited, I phoned my older daughter and told her the good news, and my friend who thought I was nuts ministering to a dead thing. Looked in on my little darling again. Dead. Scrunched up like in a fatal epiletic fit in another bottom corner of the cage - with his tail sticking up. Eyes wide open, unseeing. I touched him...dead as a doornob. No breathing either. ~sigh~. Call daughter again. Yell at Ally. Dribble more honey water over his mouth. Later, young daughter comes home, and I break the news to her. She tearfully goes over to say goodbye to Ally. Looks in the cage and says quietly, "Yeah right Mom. Are you blind or just insane?" I look, and here's Ally on his favourite basking branch. I give up!!! Was it the honey? Or was it this 'brumating' thing Igmom was talking about?? Did he have a bad dream and have a mild heart attack? Why is he in such terror of *anything* now? Maybe its a little-known defense mechanism to play dead? : He finally ate something today - 4 mealworms. Now we'll wait for the poopies. : btw, Ally is an iguanid - a spiny-tail with a dangerous stegosaurus-looking tail. He is the smallest of the spinys at about 51/2 inches S-V, and to me seems to have little in commom with the other spineys. He has been raised for the two years I've had him almost exclusively on ig salad. He apparently does need some protein, so I have been supplementing with little mealworms (that also eat ig salad!)in the last year. There is NO information on these guys anywhere. One guy breeds them on the cteno forum, and he can't find any info on these particualar spinys either. So, if Ally's in trouble -- I think what works for GGI's will work somewhat for him. (The best that my vet -- who called all over hell's half acre -- could come up with is that there is no such lizard in cativity as Ally!) I'll try and post a pic. Thank you - chanting CAN help!!!

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