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Possible impaction?

I also have a feeling he was a little dehydrated. Hes not one to drink very often. Perhaps a larger waterbowl will help him to find it and use it more often.
 
I catch him with his head dunked in now and again, he knows where it is (right corner of the cool end). But I will get him a larger open top bowl.
 
Tula_Montage said:
I also have a feeling he was a little dehydrated. Hes not one to drink very often. Perhaps a larger waterbowl will help him to find it and use it more often.
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Does he drink for you when you hold him? Maybe its because of all the medical attention he's received lately, but Butter's become a bit of a priss. I have to hold him above a tub of 82* water and he'll dunk his head in and take a long, multi-gulp drink. Too warm or too cold, and he wants nothing to do with it. The only evidence I've had that he even knows his water dish is in his bin is that he's pooped in it. Once.
 
MerlinsPop said:
Does he drink for you when you hold him? Maybe its because of all the medical attention he's received lately, but Butter's become a bit of a priss. I have to hold him above a tub of 82* water and he'll dunk his head in and take a long, multi-gulp drink. Too warm or too cold, and he wants nothing to do with it. The only evidence I've had that he even knows his water dish is in his bin is that he's pooped in it. Once.
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Nope he doesn't usually drink when I hold him to it. I don't think it would be the stress of meds. His baytril was administerd via pinks every day LOL so he was perfectly content. And he wasn't even sick to begin with as the report showed which was fabulous.

Nanci said:
A. Glad Noir passed the urate ball!

B. Urates aren't calcium, they are the salt form of uric acid.
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Thanks Nanci! So do you how it would built up like that? Lack of water sounds like a reasonable theory.
 
I don't know! What comes out of my bearded dragon is exactly like that, all the time. Jake's urates are pretty substantial and chalky and in balls, but he usually goes in his water so I don't know how dried out they would be. I think he has a big one in his cage from when he shed- I'll examine it more closely.
 
Well, what I thought was a giant poo was a little dried up ball of poofluff- but don't worry- he'll have one cooked up after his three mice on Sunday!
 
Ewwww. I just got my big mouse order today for the first half of the year. I want to feed everyone, but they aren't due LOL.
 
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