this is a tale about our 5yr old male beardie, lionel.
he started his life in a local pet shop and lived there for 4yrs.
he lived alone with no company and noone to play with.
he was brought from the pet shop by a very caring lady who gifted him to us, as she could no longer stand seeing him there. we were going to purchase him ourselves, but the price they wanted for him was out of our price range at the time.
when we got him home he was so skiny and dull in colour we were not sure if he was going to survive.
he was calcium deficient and had a servere under shot jaw and he had to drag his back legs.
we had to force feed him baby food and puree veges through a suringe for about a month to help him get his strenght back.
he would only eat live mealworms and even that was a struggle to get him to eat.
he could hardly walk due to the lack of calcium and he had a hard time eating due to his jaw and lack of teeth.
we have had our very special boy for a year now and im happy to say his is alot better and happier than ever.
he has two beautiful girls liveing with him and he eats more than ever.
he still has trouble with his back legs as they still drag behind him sometimes but this does not seem to bother him anymore.
he is well on the road to recovery.
here is a picture of our boy
it breaks our hearts to see that the pet shop lionel is from has another beardie that is going down the same path that lionel did