Buckeye Girl
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I live in the mid-west and I have a 13 year old 40ish pound male sulcata. He has been living inside since before Christmas because it has been so cold. Out doors, his main diet was grass, weeds and dandelions. He has a big area and can graze at will. I would add in romaine a few times a week and cucumber once or twice a week and then occasionally carrots, watermelon rinds, strawberry tops and hibiscus flowers. He refuses to eat hay. Since he's been inside I have been teaching him to eat timothy hay pellets. He likes to eat the cat food (if he can get to it). So I thought that I could put pellets in a similar dish to the cat food and put it near the cats' food. I have the cats' food dishes in a plastic bin, so he can't get into it. Anyway, he's adapted well to eating the pellets mixed with dried hibiscus flowers. So much so, it is the main part of his diet. I leave a dish full of pellets out for him, like I do the cats. It's been going well. He still gets romaine a few times a week. I will add apple or carrot peels if I peel them for dinner (maybe once a week, if that), but that is it. I was giving him cucumber twice a week to help with hydration. He's big, so I can only soak him in the tub a few times a week. Over the past two weeks the solid poop has stopped and it is now a thick diarrhea with a few solid chunks. I cannot figure out what is wrong. I've stopped all cucumber thinking maybe it was too much, but nothing has changed. The only other thing I can think of that he is getting is perhaps cat poop, if he can time it right. But I don't think that is it because he doesn't have the opportunity often. Any help is greatly appreciated. He is otherwise acting normal. Alert, bright eyes, stubborn and always looking to get into something.
