I unfortunantely away while all this happened so it it hard for me to articulate the vets reasoning on the diagnosis however it was said there were no signs of an infection. There was no necropsy done - my wife had a hard enough time taking him in for the injection - I don't think she would have...
Sorry it has taken me so long to update. The vet did not do any blood work or biopsy. My vet has had alot of experiance with veiled chameleons. Based in the size, firmness and rate of the growth he was confident it was cancerous and not an abscess. He said it was not because of something we had...
Hey guys - thanks for you suggestions. My wife took Rufus to the vet on Monday and it turns out that he has cancer. There is not much we can do at this point - the vet gave him a steroid shot to help stimulate his appetite and help boost his immunities as there is a slim chance this may help...
I have a veiled Chameleon named Rufus. He is a male approx 1 year - 1 1/2 years old. We have had him since January-February of this year. Over the last few weeks he had developed this bump on his head and then today I noticed that he has some swelling around his left eye.
His cage is an...