I hand fed two very sick geckos, one leopard and one fat tail. The best way I found to get them to eat is to cut head off of the mealworm, then hold the mealworm body with the open end and some of the guts hanging out in front of the geckos mouth. You can also gently touch the guts to the geckos mouth. Both my geckos would then lick their faces and while they were doing that, I would try to slip the meal worm in.
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Date: Saturday, April 29, 2006 4:21 pm
Subject: [gecko]Sick -- probably dying -- gecko
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> My older gecko Na?Toth seems to be wasting away. She hasn?t been
> eatingmany of the mealworms I?ve been feeding her, so I tried
> crickets. In
> order to get her to notice them I have to take out all of the
> furniturefrom her enclosure so it?s just her and the crickets.
> After a while when
> she stops eating I put her furniture back so she can go and hide
> again.She ate several a few days ago but then the next day I found
> regurgitatedcrickets in the enclosure.
>
> I had the same sort of problem with her a couple of years ago and
> took her
> to a vet. At that time the problem turned out to be that the
> temperaturein her cage wasn?t warm enough. That?s definitely not
> the case this time.
> I had to try to force feed her while she was recovering, which was
> a trial
> because we never could get her to open her mouth ? even the vet
> couldn?tdo it!
>
> She?s been a weird gecko from the beginning. I bought her in a pet
> store(yeah, I know?) and all she?s ever wanted to do is hide.
> She?s totally
> different from Sadie, the gecko I bought from Julie, who?s a little
> glutton and has a definite personality. She?s a doll!
>
> This might sound cruel, but I?m not sure I want to spend a lot of
> money or
> time trying to find out what?s wrong with Na?Toth and then trying
> to get
> her better, under the circumstances. I also don?t want her to starve
> herself to death, because I know that has to be painful. Is it
> possible to
> euthanize a gecko like a dog or cat?
>
> Diane
>
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- [gecko]Sick -- probably dying -- gecko Diane
- Re: [gecko]Sick -- probably dying -- gecko lhaider
- Re: [gecko]Sick -- probably dying -- gecko Diane
- Re: [gecko]Sick -- probably dying -- gecko Jamie A. Stine
- Re: [gecko]Sick -- probably dying -- ge... J Aherns
- Re: [gecko]Sick -- probably dying -- ge... Leann Christenson
