Meet my newest, Gertrude!

[Lindsey]

Today I adopted 1-year-old female veiled Gertrude from a vet clinic a friend works at!
She is super friendly, and chubby, and is healing well from her spay, but is a little dehydrated.

About a month ago someone brought her into my friends clinic with a prolapse. Apparantly her previous owner left her with a prolapse for a week, and after trying to put the prolapse back in himself/herself and failing, brought her to the vet clinic. X-rays indicated egg-boundedness as well, and Gertie's owner could not afford the surgery so she was surrendered to the clinic.

Now she is good as new (with a couple battle-scars to show for it).

I am super excited to have another chameleon after the passing of my dear old Archie.

Enjoy!



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[Olimpia]

Congrats! She looks like a sweet girl. And scars always make for interesting stories!

 

[lisagr07]

Gertrude is a VERY lucky girl!!!!!!!!!!!! beautiful also!!!!!!!

 

[DragonLady]

Congrats on the new addition! Gertie is very luck to have you!!

 

[ajacobson]

She's so pretty, and very lucky to have you!

 

[laurie]

Lovely little lady you have there. Thank you for caring and taking Gertrude into your home & heart.

 

[Lindsey]

Thanks for the kind words everyone!

She is settling in very well. I have already seen her drinking and she ate a few worms and crickets, though not in front of me (she's a little shy about eating in front of me yet).

I'll be sure to update with pics as she gets older

 

[sandrachameleon]

Im glad you were able to get her. Sounds like she will have a much better life from now on

 

[alyssapetrocco]

that is so wonderfull!!

 

[Miss Lily]

That's a lovely story! It's an awful feeling to lose a cham, been there myself. Once you've had a chameleon, life is awfully empty without them! 'Rescued' chams seem to be so sweet and 'grateful' almost. My Tommy had been passed around a bit before I got him. He is now in his 5th home, and I just can't understand why people didn't want him - you couldn't ask for a sweeter, friendlier and more laid back chameleon. They sure are special when they've been through so much.

Good luck with Gertie, she looks a beauty! I'm sure she will in some way fill the gaping hole that Archie left behind.

 

[dreamforthedead]

Gertrude is pretty and very lucky to have you, bless her.

 

[ShaunaLynnA]

Lucky Cham to have someone like you! Congrats on her arrival and best of luck with her. She looks so innocent and adorable!

 

[Lindsey]

This morning after her morning mist she went crazy drinking, so I refilled her drip cup and she sat under there for a good 10 minutes or so before I realized I should take advantage of this situation.
I was able to trick her into drinking out of a dripping syringe by dripping it onto the leaf she was sucking on, to get her to not be afraid of the syringe. Hopefully I can teach her to drink from me!
I think she was a bit more dehydrated than I thought, because she seems to be really thirsty, so I added a little splash of pedialyte to the water in her drip cup to help her out.

And she is happily eating everything I offer so far (YAY!).

I took some drinking pictures, but my camera promptly died, so they will be coming later.

Thanks everyone!