Sarah's Bearded Dragon Rescue

My rescue sister rescued a juvenile Savannah monitor for me a couple weeks ago. Here's a "Before & After" picture of the S...

On Saturday night, a friend from back home in Utah sent me a link to a local Salt Lake City ad that showed an adult savannah monitor not in ...

I woke up to find Junior had pooped a tiny bit! YAY! And then I saw that Junior himself was no longer bloated and puffy! His belly...

I walked into my bedroom today and saw this: Junior's eyes were open and alert. He watched me for awhile, looked around him again, ...

Look at this wee lil' baby go! Such progress. Love him! SO happy to see him moving-- even if I have to stop working to make sure he ...

Spring means "Tortoise Checkups" and so I made an appointment to take all 5 in today. And then Junior went along to get his secon...

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 is having a down day. He's very lethargic and not opening his eyes much. I'm SO grateful that the sun is shining and I can gi...

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...

About 40 minutes before I had to leave to take Junior to the vet, I had two almost adult Savannah monitors dumped off at my house. With noth...

I turned on the lights on this morning and didn't have to move Junior to make sure he was still with me. Instead I found his head up and...

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's got some sort of blockage in his gut. O riginally, he had urates built up, but he managed to push those out. Now he's got a...

Junior got his calcium shot, his saline injection, and a partially tube-feeding (the tube plugged up for some reason and he only got 1 cc)....

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...