João Pontes
Bearded Dragon Egg
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Hi my name is João and I am portuguese[emoji1201]. I own an adult male bearded dragon called Alberto (pictures below)
I joined this forum because my beardie has kind of a problem which I'll explain: two years ago I was in Italy in vacations and I got a call from my house cleaner ( I don't know the name in English but basically she was the one who was feeding him when I was away) saying that he wasn't eating and didn't come out of his cave... I told her, joking, that he was probably just missing me and she didnt have to worry about it. But several days passed and that strange behavior continued and so she took him to the vet. The vet said he didn't know what it was but he was dehydrated and so he stayed 2 days in the vet. When he came back home he still didnt wanted to eat, even though he was already basking bellow his light like usual. Then I came back from vacations and the vet told me to force feed him because he had to eat or he would become very sick. And so I started opening his mouth and giving him by hand his food. Well, this new thing of not eating and force feeding became a daily routine for me for the last two years because since then he lost his appetite and refuses to eat food. In this two years I've tried everything that crossed my mind to make him eat again and noting worked... I even stopped giving food to him for two hole weeks but still he wasn't t hungry and never touched his food dish...
And so the big problem is this - my house cleaner got fired and so now I have nobody who can feed him when I'm out (it's kind of difficult and most of people are scared of him) and also I would really like to see him eat again...
So... Is there anyone who can help me? I would really appreciate some new ideas because I don't know what else to do...
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I joined this forum because my beardie has kind of a problem which I'll explain: two years ago I was in Italy in vacations and I got a call from my house cleaner ( I don't know the name in English but basically she was the one who was feeding him when I was away) saying that he wasn't eating and didn't come out of his cave... I told her, joking, that he was probably just missing me and she didnt have to worry about it. But several days passed and that strange behavior continued and so she took him to the vet. The vet said he didn't know what it was but he was dehydrated and so he stayed 2 days in the vet. When he came back home he still didnt wanted to eat, even though he was already basking bellow his light like usual. Then I came back from vacations and the vet told me to force feed him because he had to eat or he would become very sick. And so I started opening his mouth and giving him by hand his food. Well, this new thing of not eating and force feeding became a daily routine for me for the last two years because since then he lost his appetite and refuses to eat food. In this two years I've tried everything that crossed my mind to make him eat again and noting worked... I even stopped giving food to him for two hole weeks but still he wasn't t hungry and never touched his food dish...
And so the big problem is this - my house cleaner got fired and so now I have nobody who can feed him when I'm out (it's kind of difficult and most of people are scared of him) and also I would really like to see him eat again...
So... Is there anyone who can help me? I would really appreciate some new ideas because I don't know what else to do...
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