Sarah's Bearded Dragon Rescue

I made a mistake of looking in my local Facebook's Marketplace. Ugh. Found a juvenile beardie in a small tank with NO UVB light. Never...

I got myself into a bit of trouble last night-- I started browsing the local online Reptile ads. Yeah, bad move. TOO many beardies for sal...

This poor baby beardie has Metabolic Bone Disease. MBD starts with fragile & brittle bones and progresses to rubber noodle bones. It...

Junior is headed back to the vet tomorrow. His bowels are still blocked.  😞   He's getting stronger and his bones are becoming firmer, ...

No poop yet for Junior and so I've only done a once-a-day tube feeding. Today he was a lot more active and his movements were more coord...

Look at this picture of Junior's Belly. I circled and annotated the spine because it's almost impossible to see:   Now look at...

Junior pooped this morning, a tiny pea-size nugget. Yay! I have been super worried that the mass in his belly was blocking his digestive ...

Junior saw Dr Folland today (my primary vet). Dr Folland didn't think the lump in Junior's belly responds like a poop plug should an...

Still no poop! But this little guy had more fight as I was giving him today's saline injection. When I put him back, he held himself up ...

When I returned to the house this morning, I found a tiny bit of poop and a tiny amount of urates that Junior had managed to push out. That ...

Junior woke up and moved around his sick tank a lot this morning. He was very alert too. Then I noticed that he was able to poop out t...

Junior got his saline injections and calcium injection today and I had him out in the sunshine at 1 pm for maximum UVB exposure.  Th...

I'm happy to report he woke up happy and is slightly more alert this morning. I'll give him his saline shot & calcium shots i...

This poor wee little baby is in BAD, BAD shape. His bones are mush and he's badly dehydrated and badly malnourished. The vet & his t...

Jinzo died this morning, leaving me with an empty tank for 8 whole hours. Tonight I took in Junior, a baby Savannah monitor with severe MBD....

Kiwi has been eating on her own and getting around in her sick tank more lately so I decided it was time to put her into a small screen cag...

Facebook told me today that three years ago today, Sancho joined our family. The original pictures I posted show how bad she was. She had SE...

On Monday, I took Noel and Kiwi back to the vet for checkups. Kiwi still has soft bones from the MBD but is making progress. She has put on ...

Gumby is my poor little Leopard Gecko with severe MBD. His bones were RUBBER when we first rescued him. It was tragic-- and 100% preventable...

While I had the flu, my husband took Kiwi the chameleon and Baby Sawyer to the vet and dropped them off for me. Kiwi's assessment w...