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How would you pick up on the health of an animal?
Over time when you actually own the animal.
It’s just using it and picking it up every day you would
understand how healthy it is or if there’s
something wrong with it.
It’s a bit like ourselves if you hear a sniffle or
see a discharge then obviously your animal’s not healthy.
Talking about sloughing as well.
If the environment or the condition that you have set up
isn’t appropriate he may not be able to slough properly.
You’ll start seeing evidence of this around his toes.
He may not be able to shed that layer of skin off his toes
and then what it can do is act like an elastic band and
start constricting the blood flow in his toes and eventually
his toes will drop off.
So, you need to make sure that he is sloughing or shedding
his skin correctly.
If he’s not you need to look at your set up and just ensure that
everything is okay especially if it’s maybe an outdoor exhibit
you want to make sure that you’re providing them
with enough heat.
The easiest way to know if your Blue Tongue has mites or ticks
is they are quite visible.
Ticks often sit in or around the ears or even around the eyes
or the mouth, they’re the easiest places for them to attach
and they do get quite large especially if they’ve been
sucking the blood so you’ll see them quite readily.
If you do get ticks they can be removed the same as a human.
If you’re a little unsure and not happy with removing ticks
they can be taken to the vet and a vet’s quite able
to remove ticks.
Mites are the same, you should be able to see them,
they’re quite small, they’re probably more like a flea-like.
But if you’re picking up your animal every day you should
be able to see mites.
The other thing to do is to check things like their faeces.
So, if you have a healthy lizard the faeces should look
quite healthy, so just well-formed usually in a brown colour
and shouldn’t have any mites or anything moving around
in the faeces.
Again, if you have any concerns a quick trip to a local vet.
A lot of vets know how to care for Blue Tongue Lizards,
they do come into their vet clinics quite often.
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