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09-Oct-07, 04:49 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Nowra Age/Gender: 24  | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Chanty79  Man I hope someone doesn't take that attitude with you the next time you get sick! | Well said Chanty79
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09-Oct-07, 04:53 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Brisbane, Toowong Age/Gender: 20 | | | | Jonno, you reckon if humans have to intervene, instead of fixing it, they should kill it? Hmm.. Each to their own..
Looks like it'll be OK I reckon. A vet would greatly help it to be OK though |
09-Oct-07, 04:55 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Bathurst Gender: | | | poor thing, tho ive never looked after a injured bluey so i cant help you there  , hope he/she does recover well
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09-Oct-07, 04:57 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: Nowra Age/Gender: 24 | | | | I had had many injured blue tongues {mainly dog attacks} brought to me. I take them to the local vet the is also a reptile vet. Most of the blueys i took to him died but i know they died because they were too badly injured
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09-Oct-07, 04:59 PM
|  | Badonkadonk Bandit Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-03 Location: Nikonia Gender: | | | | Drop it to the vet, they'll take it from there. |
09-Oct-07, 05:05 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | | I would just remove the flap, put on some betadine or whatever you have handy and send it on its way, should be fine unless there is more damage that cant be seen.
If it appears to have brain damage might as well just kill it, dosnt really look like its that bad from the pic though. |
09-Oct-07, 05:07 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Brisbane, Toowong Age/Gender: 20 | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Chanty79 Man I hope someone doesn't take that attitude with you the next time you get sick! | Sometimes the best thing you can do for a sick or injured animal is to put it out of its misery. It's just a fact. |
09-Oct-07, 05:08 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Brisbane Age/Gender: 23 | | | | does it move and behave normally? |
09-Oct-07, 05:08 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Harrison, ACT Age/Gender: 42 | | | | they are amazingly hardy, I took one to the vets earlier this year which had been speared through the head and out through the throat. It even had maggots crawling out of the wound when I applied some antiseptic cream. A few days at the vets it started to drink fluids and eat and eventually was released back into the wild. Antibiotics and TLC can work wonders.
As for leaving it to die because thats nature? each their own, My daughter received the greatest satisfaction out of knowing the animal she rescued from certain death survived.
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09-Oct-07, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by PhilK Jonno, you reckon if humans have to intervene, instead of fixing it, they should kill it? Hmm.. Each to their own..
Looks like it'll be OK I reckon. A vet would greatly help it to be OK though | Rehabilitating native wildlife has many negatives and few positives. I don't want to taint this thread but feel free to PM me and I will point you in the right direction with regards to further information.
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09-Oct-07, 05:24 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-05 Location: melbourne australia Age: 45 | | | | I agree with jonno here but id take it to a vet just for good measure as well.
It certainly should not be knocked on the head judging by this pic as bluies can recover from some pretty horrific injuries..
It is hard to tell how deep it goes so a better pic of the damage would have been good.
Here on the peninsula the slashers are out taking down the roadside grass and scrub in readiness for the fire season and the bluetongues are usually the victims of this.
The skinks seem to like to live near the road in the long grass and have worked out how to deal with the traffic on the road but the slashers are a different kettle of fish.
Good luck with it.
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09-Oct-07, 05:35 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: victoria | | | | i bought a stumpy who had a bad shedding and she had lost a big bit of scale like that revealing the flesh. i treated her with bedadine and she is now fine. bedadine will stop the infection. |
09-Oct-07, 07:09 PM
| | | | If you still havn't solved the issue take this into consideration..."blue tounges are tuff" i've had them for years and i've delt with worse injuries than that. It looks bad but if you keep it from infection...that lizard will make a full recovery. So don't worry.
Once our enclosure was attacked by our dogs and 3 of the blue tounges were bitten badly. Puncture wounds that peiced the lung (water over the wound site showed bubbles), missing noise and a head wound like that one....all recovered with care. And our cage got serious reinforcement. Blue tounges are like the sherman tank of the lizard world.
That head wound shows skull, but no brain cage penetration. All thats happened is the armour scales have been lifted. It will be fine if it doesn't get infected. In my opinion. |
09-Oct-07, 07:29 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Newcastle Age/Gender: 25 | | | | Well everyone thanks for your responce. As you can imagine initially i was quite worried about the poor guy. When we came across him and realised he had a large amount of scales removed from his head our first reaction was to pick him up and see if he was alive and see the extent of his wounds. He hissed and carried on for a second then seemed quite content and was flicking his tongue out. On the advice of the bluey keeper who was present at the time we put it back to its own devices. We are not herp vets but it seemed to us that the wound was superficial and that it should heal itself. I built a hide in my backyard between two shrubs and am giving it some food and water. He was hanging out in the shurbs and coming out to bask and didn't seem in any distress. He stayed close by and came out in the sun but i havent seem him today.
This was the first time i have come across something like this and im sure some of you would have handled it differently. |
09-Oct-07, 07:30 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Hallowed Hills | | | | I was thinking dog attack too.
Saliva in the wounds usually gives a pretty high chance of infection.
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