Re: Why did your VET give him medicine without being sure he ...

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Posted by PE on August 01, 2002 at 10:31:37:

In Reply to: Re: Why did your VET give him medicine without being sure he ... posted by Melissa K on August 01, 2002 at 09:12:52:

Throw in a heat mat, but cover it...see if he is just as comfortable with that...You dont have to take it out...just dont have it plugged in. Any heating element can be harmful. I had an undertank heat mat under my tank(of course). And my water monitor who was getting to big for the cage knocked over his water dish and between the water in the tank and the heat mat under the tank...my tank cracked. Originally I thought I may have dropped the tank, but then it happened to the other side of the tank as well. Just my little warning about using heaters.

:Unfortunately, Sebastian is a pretty picky eater - I guess he takes after his mama. He'll eat the collards, but it is hard to get him to eat the others for some reason. So, I try and sneak them in here and there and then he'll eat them. He also goes through phases of what he likes and doesn't like, so I keep trying to see which foods he'll accept this month :-)

:I'm sorry to hear about your monitor. That's horrible. The vet had mentioned the possibility of shocking to me when I asked him about hot rocks. I just don't want to take away his favorite little spot - he'd be too bummed. Perhaps eventually I will try to wean him off of it and get him a heating pad instead.

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::I think you kind of got your diet a little backwards. Collards, mustards,turnip greens, then the other goodies. I can see the vet giving medicine ahead of time.

::Heat rocks...I have about 4 or 5, maybe more, all packed away. I wont use them anymore except in emergency. I had a nice savanah monitor once...he didnt get burned(never had burn issues with them), but my savanah knocked over the water bowl one day and I never realized there was a problem with the rock, cause I turn off the heat rock when I clean the cage. One day I did feel the rock and I got shocked by it. This lead to major digestive problems and had to use mineral oil and give him enimas everyday for the last two years of his life. So now for the lousy 10-20 bucks i get a heat pad. If I use it inside a cage...I get some plexi to put it under.

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:::The vet wanted to start him on something (an extremely low dose) in case there was indeed a problem with the kidney's since he had the swollen glands in his throat. Since kidney problems can strike quickly, he wanted to get a little jump on things. It was an extremely low dose, so it couldn't hurt him.

:::The foods I give Sebastian are mainly collard greens, sweet potato (raw and grated), yellow squash, green beans, cantaloupe, grapes, bananas and then a variety of other things occassionally like mustard greens, turnip greens and strawberries.

:::I've heard about the burn issues with some hot rocks, but Sebastian has had one all his life and it is actually his favorite thing in his enclosure. I check it to make sure it is not too hot, and I have luckily never had any issues with it.

:::And I give him tons of love and head rubs!! Oh, and he absolutely loves to be rubbed under his chin and along his spikes.

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