Hi Tobey,
Your leo could have been knocked up before you received her, so the eggs
may be fertile. Fertility is not the issue anyway here, there are eggs
in there and they need to come out. If you wait too long with an egg
bound leo, as I did once, the eggs harden up and will probably become
infected, greatly increasing the chance the leo will not survive.
Leopards with visible eggs are pretty far along, I would not wait more
than 2 weeks past this stage to call the vet. The vet has several
options, the first is usually a hormone called oxytocin which is
administered to start the egg-laying process. If this does not work, and
the eggs are not hardened up, a syringe may be used to suck out the egg
contents and the empty eggs are usually passed. This cannot be done at
home and the vet will use an anesthetic to do this. The third option is
surgery, the survival rate is usually not good.
Let us know how it turns out!
Julie Bergman
http://www.geckoranch.com
GGA lifetime member
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