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This morning my 5-year-old male beardie started doing the weirdest thing!
All of his belly muscles would sharply contract very suddenly. This forced the air out of his lungs hard enough that the huffing/snorting sound it made was audible in other rooms. Sometimes he would move the area at the base of his throat flap before the belly clench, more often not. For stronger clenches he would open his mouth. This went on for about 2 hours & we have a very expensive appointment with our vet clinic's weekend exotics specialist that we'd like to leave open for an animal in need if Gojira is okay!
Possibly important details:
We are 100% sure he is not constipated or impacted. There has been nothing unusual about the waste he's passing, and he has been having no signs of difficulty with the process.
He has not eaten any new foods in several weeks, only things he's familiar with. He is eating regularly.
He did eat a small lint ball almost 2 weeks ago but has been having normal bowel movements since with no additional signs of digestive distress.
All through whatever was going on today, he remained alert, head up, in control of his extremities, highly responsive to his environment.
About 30 minutes in a very shallow warm bath eventually seemed to help.
I have heard nothing unusual (wheezing, bubbling, crackling) in his breathing today while he was on my shoulder literally with the tip of his nose in my ear.
All of his belly muscles would sharply contract very suddenly. This forced the air out of his lungs hard enough that the huffing/snorting sound it made was audible in other rooms. Sometimes he would move the area at the base of his throat flap before the belly clench, more often not. For stronger clenches he would open his mouth. This went on for about 2 hours & we have a very expensive appointment with our vet clinic's weekend exotics specialist that we'd like to leave open for an animal in need if Gojira is okay!
Possibly important details:
We are 100% sure he is not constipated or impacted. There has been nothing unusual about the waste he's passing, and he has been having no signs of difficulty with the process.
He has not eaten any new foods in several weeks, only things he's familiar with. He is eating regularly.
He did eat a small lint ball almost 2 weeks ago but has been having normal bowel movements since with no additional signs of digestive distress.
All through whatever was going on today, he remained alert, head up, in control of his extremities, highly responsive to his environment.
About 30 minutes in a very shallow warm bath eventually seemed to help.
I have heard nothing unusual (wheezing, bubbling, crackling) in his breathing today while he was on my shoulder literally with the tip of his nose in my ear.
