Hello everyone, I have an update. I have managed to start force feeding Stewy and he has been force fed 3 times dly for the last week. He is also drinking. He physically is looking much better. He still sleeps all the time though and refuses to eat on his own. I try to tempt him with a variety...
Thank you for you replies :) My vet said he is too small to gavage (we spoke of it but she did not tell me what it is called). I managed to force feed him a bit of critical care last night and will try today as well. He obviously still has some energy cause he puts on quite a fight with me. I...
At this point I have food in front of him all the time. Well in his enclosure I mean. I am soaking him in carrot baby food also but he just sleeps in it.
Mostly spring mix and fruit on occasion. He does not eat anything now. The vet told us to give him whatever he would eat as long as he ate something and that if he did not start eating he would die. She gave me some critical care powder but he won't eat that either. He won't let me force feed...
We have the heat at 85 degrees. His enclosure is heated by the ceramic heat emitter. The reptisun light is a long fluorescent bulb and not a short spiral one.
Need some urgent help with a young Hermann. I have a 6 to 8 month Hermann and I'm unable to get him to eat. I have had him for a few months now. When I first got him he was eating okay, taking bits out of whole pieces of weeds and grasses but now nothing. Has been to the vet twice and...