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I've tried a kong style toy with mine. He loved it but I didn't think it out too well and it made a huge mess.
He also likes plastic water bottles, shoes, soft dog toys, and rubber balls. He will pick up and carry these items around, shake them, bite them, and stash them. He'll even chase a...
She may tame down.
If you need to send her to rescue look for one local to you. I work with one here who takes them (and pretty much anything else), but I'm sure we are far far from you.
Hey again. My big guy hasn't pooped in a couple of days. He's eating fine and otherwise seems normal but he's only urinated.
I plan to give him another day or two and I'm going to try a warm bath and see if it gets things going before I head to the vet, but is there anything else I can do?
You don't eat your food raw though, animals do. Cooking kills the nasty stuff. But since tegus (and ferrets) eat their prey raw there's definitely concern about contamination. If it were me I'd freeze for longer than a week.
Tegu will likely eat the skink.
Mine's already murdered (and I mean crushed every bone) a toad, and tried to murder a snake. These are predators. Please keep them apart so your skink doesn't wind up on the menu.
Oh no.
My tegu is a 7 year old male and he was rescued after being starved and eating a whole bunch of rocks. They nearly killed him.
He avoided surgical intervention, they were removed through enemas of the digestive tract. I hope your guy can get better soon. Your vet is going to be the...
A small amount would probably be just fine to give additional calcium. If it were me, I'd mix it with some other meat though to avoid too much dust at once packing into the gut.
Seconded- he needs medical care. Until you get him there keep him warm and still, and in dim lighting if possible to keep him calm. A dog crate with a small heat pad on one end would do nicely.
My understanding from ferrets (which I have had much longer than my tegu!) and raw feeding them is that all wild prey must be frozen first. I believe for longer than a week.
No.
It isn't worth the risk at all. My big male has a massive scar across the center of his back where his skin was ripped away by another male. He needed stitches. This all happened before I got him, when he was in foster, but the scar remains. The person who had him said his skin was...