URGENT There’s something wrong with my poor Pluto

Mayci

Mayci

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Pluto is my 3 month old veiled. The past couple of days she has been having her eyes closed a whole lot and will be immobile for long time periods. Tonight it’s very bad and I’m very worried I’ve been crying and panicking because I don’t want my poor baby to die. I got her out of the cage and she seemed fine, but now she is laying down on my hand completely with both eyes closed and will not move. I’m scared she is in pain and even when I touch her gently to try to get her to open her eyes or move, she won’t. I feel like she is dying in front of me and I care about her so much I’m scared I wasn’t good enough of an owner for her. Her color is fine and she is still breathing but I am just so worried because she won’t move. She also has been rubbing her eyes up against the branches in her cage and I understand that could be from shedding because she is growing but I don’t know I don’t think so because it doesn’t look like she is shedding anywhere at all. Someone please tell me how to help her
 

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I see you posted about your chameleon wiggling in another thread...I wish you had followed up with that thread....let us know if it was still happening.
 
Chameleon Info:
  • Your Chameleon - Veiled, female, been in my care for 1 month
  • Handling - Not much when I first got her, but every couple of days for a few minutes at a time now. She really doesn’t seem to mind
  • Feeding - 6-8 small crickets a day. She won’t eat much more than that even if I try. Every other day I give her a mealworm or two along with the crickets
  • Supplements - Zoomed calcium without d3 every day zoomed multivitamin every week
  • Watering - Mist her plants and cage 3 times a day. Also use a humidifier that goes into the cage. I see her drinking every now and then but when I notice it’s been awhile since I’ve seen her drink, I’ll spray water onto her mouth and she will drink it
  • Fecal Description - brown feces, clearish white pee.
  • History -

Cage Info:
  • Cage Type - Screen zoomed with lots and lots of branches and fake plants along with a big bamboo plant in the middle that she loves to climb on
  • Lighting - 75 watt basking bulb and I don’t know what the ubv bulb is honestly. I turn her lights off for 12 hours and keep them on for 12 hours
  • Temperature - 68 at the lowest at night and 87 in basking spot
  • Humidity - not sure, but most likely high with her strong humidifier on daily
  • Plants - A bamboo plant with leaves along with a big succulent plant
  • Placement - Corner of my room. Rarely have the fan on in my room
  • Location - north Georgia
 
You said..."I’ll spray water onto her mouth and she will drink it"...don't spray water into her mouth...she might aspirate it (get it in her lungs). I'm hoping that's not why she was doing g all the wiggling. I would add a dripper and you have to make sure to run it long enough that it stimulates her to drink. The same applies to the mister...they take time to decide to drink.

You said she's rubbing her eyes...that means they are irritating her so it could be something in them, it could be an infection, it could be the beginning of an RI.

She doesn't look good at all.
 
kinyonga said:
You said..."I’ll spray water onto her mouth and she will drink it"...don't spray water into her mouth...she might aspirate it (get it in her lungs). I'm hoping that's not why she was doing g all the wiggling. I would add a dripper and you have to make sure to run it long enough that it stimulates her to drink. The same applies to the mister...they take time to decide to drink.

You said she's rubbing her eyes...that means they are irritating her so it could be something in them, it could be an infection, it could be the beginning of an RI.

She doesn't look good at all.
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I do not force water into her mouth I’m sorry I meant onto her mouth. I will get droplets all on her mouth and she will open her mouth and drink them
 
I would find a vet ASAP. laying down and sleeping while being handled is never a good sign. If she is too weak to hold herself up there is something wrong.
 
Her eyes keep puffing up and she keeps rubbing them hard on branches/my hand. She seems like she’s in a terrible amount of pain and is still laying down with her eyes closed today. I will find a vet for her
 
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