So I was feeding my Cham, when I noticed a hair like thing hanging out of its mouth. Idk what it is, looked like a hair, I pulled it out and then, it had some like white stuff on it, and the Cham cried a bit. Like made a noise once. I don’t know what it was, but please help, my worst fear is that I pulled some of its tongue or intestines. Please help
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Can I do it in the morning, I’m rly tired. Long day at school
CamoChameleonsHuman
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Totally fine. Take a load off. School is hard. People with jobs and kids have no idea am I right?!
krikinit
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Right. Walked 140 acres of almonds replacing drip line, flew the harris hawk, the pigeons hand fed the cham and its 847pm the kids a running like the just woke up.
Goose502
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God I can’t agree more. Most inspirational man alive!
Carlton
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Probably physically impossible that you pulled out part of the intestine, so forget that. It would have needed to pull up the stomach itself, and obviously that didn't happen. You would know if it was part of the tongue. Again, probably impossible. It IS possible that a feeder your cham caught did have a hair stuck to it. When it tried to swallow the insect the hair got snagged around the base of the tongue and got left behind. If it was there for a while partially dried saliva could have built up on it (the white stuff). Chams can make sounds in their throats when really stressed or upset. Maybe it was a weird bit of a hiss.
Another more remote possibility is that it was actually an intestinal parasite. Some are very very thin hairlike worms. However, you would probably have seen it move when pulled on.
How's your cham now?
