I work at an exotics pet store, sadly. I say that because my boss is an idiot, along with my coworkers (all two of them...) and I'm the only one who does ANYTHING and I can only work a few hours a day (school). After not supplying enough cages for everyone, two baby bearded dragons had to be kept together in a ten gallon tank. I haven't been to work since Friday, and came in today (at 4 pm) to find one of the bearded dragons looking sickly in the corner of it's cage. I picked him up to see his back right foot black and stuck to his tail, and his front left foot swollen and he wouldn't move it. I rushed to show my boss, and his friend suggested to wrap a rubber band around it and it would eventually fall off...WHAT?!? I soak him, get his foot un-stuck from his tail, and put some neosporen on it. I then cleaned out a tank just for him to sit in. At the end of the day I take the little guy back over to my boss to show him how his foot is still bleeding and tell him that he is going to have to go to a vet. He refused, stating he couldn't afford it and that he would save more if he would just "put him down". So...I had to step up and say let ME take him home and I'LL take him to the vet. Grr! I'll get pics asap.
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Awww poor little baby. I hope you can save him. Aside from his foot and that front leg, he doesnt look really sickly or emaciated, so I think he has a chance. Good luck with him. And be sure to keep up his calcium levels.
Oh yeah, he looked it at the store...then I brought him home and he ran around his tank and chowed down on some worms. I won't be able to save that back leg, I don't think, but he'll make it 
He'll be getting extra vitamins, he's under the correct full spectrum lighting, and I'll be soaking him at LEAST every other night in some pedyalite until I can get him to the vet.
He'll be getting extra vitamins, he's under the correct full spectrum lighting, and I'll be soaking him at LEAST every other night in some pedyalite until I can get him to the vet.
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It is awesome of you to take him in Lisa, and I hope he makes a full recovery. His foot looks pretty bad judging by the picture; the foot is going to need to come off. It looks very dark and looks like the start of dry gangrene, if it is, it can move up the leg and cause the death of the animal. I would also be concerned about him getting a bone infection.
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Dang, poor little fella. It sounds like you got your hands full but I am sure he will make a full recovery under your supervision. If I were you I'd try and get your boss straightened out. Maybe a quick post of the BOI would make him do the right things.
I work at a petshop too. I feel your pain Kazzy. Nobody really listens to their employees and the boss/managers think they know it all. My manager put hatchling beardies with few month old beardies when i told her not to and one had a baby beardie in its mouth. Her excuse was "well they arent being fed enough." What I hate the most is when they take in free animals and they have no where to put them, all they see is free. People make me mad but oh well. Good luck with the beardie.
-Jon DeLong
-Jon DeLong
cant u get some1 2 report him 4 u . fair play 2 u 4 doing the right thing n taking him on hope he is well soon . i used 2 take home cornsnakes from the petshop i used 2 work at when i was 16 used 2 get them healthy again part of the reason that by time i was 17 had 11 corns n i only ever paid 4 1 he got inspected twice but was still allowed 2 trade but was shut down in the end
