Helikaon wrote:hes looking very good, i cant rememebr from your first posts but were any blood tests performed? systemic antibiotics?
No, His recovery has been so rapid I haven't yet taken him to a vet. The Face has vastly improved with the shed removal and treatment with anitbiotic ointment. So currently I am just monitering and if anything takes a down turn I'll get him to the nearest experienced vet. The only reason we haven't gone so far is because the nearest vet I would trust is 2 hours drive away and is extremely hard to get a time slot with.
SailleSkinklover wrote:Hey Luce,
this might sound disgusting, but do you have any examples of the layers of shed that you pulled off Quinn so we can see what it looked like? I have no idea what 15 or 20 layers of stuck shed would look like, and though I hate to think about it, I think it could be very educational for anybody who came across this same situation down the road (Gods forbid!)
Aslo, could you take pics of Quinn's feet? I feel terrible for him and I love that you are so diligent with his care but I feel that this is a good opportunity for learning and posting specific examples of what can happen with poor husbandry/improper care.
I still think you need to file charges of animal cruelty on the previous owner. Its revolting that anybody could let a living creature get that bad without any care at all.
I will do my bset, he has been through so much that he is now cranky and touchy about his face and feet. I will try to get pics of his feet later tonight though.
I don't have any spacific examples of the shed itself because it all came off in bits and pieces and sometimes I would think I had all the shed of a scale and here just when he shed again I would pull up a patch of more shed. So it's not like 15-20 layers come up at once. And its only on smal places like the lips, eyes and feet not all over the body so it doesn't come off in chunks big enough to show anything.
The best I can do is repost the first pics of Quinn. As an example of what the buildup it's self looks like. It's made even more difficult because sometimes the shed has been stuck so long it almost seems like it rotted out from undernieth and the scales below it especially around the mouth and between the toes, are raw and very soft so they bleed slightly when the shed pulls off
The shed off the eyelids were almost just a slime with out any recognisable scale patterns or seperatable layers. But you could tell it was shed rather than say pus because it was in little sheets. There doesn't seem to be any real infection anymore it's just a slow removal of shed and treating the irritated scales under it. You can see the redness and discolored scales around his mouth even in these pics.
I agree that this can be a good learning experience, i'm just not sure how to illustrate the effects more than the pictures I have and my descriptions of what is going on so far.
