I bought a tegu from a guy who improperly shipped the tegu. I received it today at approximately 2PM and it was shipped the day before at 6PM. The tegu was in a plastic box with holes within a cardboard box with holes, that's it! There was a small heat pack about the size of a teabag and nothing else to further warm the package or keep warm. I opened the plastic container and saw the little tegu upside down and not moving.. I called my friend who lives here and also has tegus and brought it over. We picked up my limp tegu's body and poop was dripping out of him and his insides felt frozen. Mind you its quite cold in Kansas right now between 15 degrees and 25 degrees. We put him in the tegu enclosure that he has and left him there under the basking light.. within about 30 minutes there was movement in his tails, then limbs and he slowly started to move. He was then bathed and put back into the enclosure where he explored his surroundings and went to sleep in one of the burrows.
I guess my question is, will he be ok? What's going to happen? Any long term effects? - He wasnt shipped properly and almost froze to death. He seems fine right now but I left the tegu at my friend's house for now and will pick him up when the week is over. I didn't want to move him too much and let him revive first.
I talked to the guy who sold it to me and he said if it died he would refund me half my money back. He said that the tegu was not fed 24 hours prior to shipping but he got it to drink a lot of water.
I'm just curious as to what to do now, will everything go back to normal, and hopefully he makes it through the night and so on and not drop dead.
Any help would be appreciated. As you can see I am new to the forums and my first few posts are grave posts.
I guess my question is, will he be ok? What's going to happen? Any long term effects? - He wasnt shipped properly and almost froze to death. He seems fine right now but I left the tegu at my friend's house for now and will pick him up when the week is over. I didn't want to move him too much and let him revive first.
I talked to the guy who sold it to me and he said if it died he would refund me half my money back. He said that the tegu was not fed 24 hours prior to shipping but he got it to drink a lot of water.
I'm just curious as to what to do now, will everything go back to normal, and hopefully he makes it through the night and so on and not drop dead.
Any help would be appreciated. As you can see I am new to the forums and my first few posts are grave posts.
