Hi,
I am looking to answer a puzzling question. Today, my beloved veiled female died, and the vet is stumped.
She was about a year old, and we bought her as a young juvenile from a very reputable pet store. They buy their supply of pets from certain breeders in the tri-state area and say they are very picky about breeders and pet stock.
This morning, she was a very light green, almost pale, and she had something dark on one side of her mouth. She was lethargic and her eyes were closed most of the time. I thought maybe she was getting dehydrated due to the dryer air in the house from winter, so I did try to rehydrate her and immediately took her to the vet. As I was giving her one of the drops of water, she opened wide enough so that I could see something in her throat.
At the vet's, she expired as he was looking her over. He looked in her throat and discovered that the thing in her throat was a blood clot, and the exudate on her mouth was frothy blood. At first, we both though a respiratory infection was the culprit, but he said that he could not explain the blood clot. He is currently performing a necropsy, but I'm not sure if he will find an answer.
Has anyone ever heard of something like this? She was fine and ate about 5 crickets last night. I just can't imagine what changed overnight. We dusted the crickets every other day with vitamin supplement; we have a heat lamp and white UV light for her. The heat lamp is always on, and we turn the UV light off at night. She had a large fountain which she drank from, and a mesh cage. We had her in a bedroom and there are no breezes and not a lot of traffic. If anyone has any suggestions, I would love to hear them.
I am looking to answer a puzzling question. Today, my beloved veiled female died, and the vet is stumped.
She was about a year old, and we bought her as a young juvenile from a very reputable pet store. They buy their supply of pets from certain breeders in the tri-state area and say they are very picky about breeders and pet stock.
This morning, she was a very light green, almost pale, and she had something dark on one side of her mouth. She was lethargic and her eyes were closed most of the time. I thought maybe she was getting dehydrated due to the dryer air in the house from winter, so I did try to rehydrate her and immediately took her to the vet. As I was giving her one of the drops of water, she opened wide enough so that I could see something in her throat.
At the vet's, she expired as he was looking her over. He looked in her throat and discovered that the thing in her throat was a blood clot, and the exudate on her mouth was frothy blood. At first, we both though a respiratory infection was the culprit, but he said that he could not explain the blood clot. He is currently performing a necropsy, but I'm not sure if he will find an answer.
Has anyone ever heard of something like this? She was fine and ate about 5 crickets last night. I just can't imagine what changed overnight. We dusted the crickets every other day with vitamin supplement; we have a heat lamp and white UV light for her. The heat lamp is always on, and we turn the UV light off at night. She had a large fountain which she drank from, and a mesh cage. We had her in a bedroom and there are no breezes and not a lot of traffic. If anyone has any suggestions, I would love to hear them.
