Leopard Gecko Kidney Failure

In January my leopard gecko had a really round abdomen. I took her to see a vet who turned out to be an absolute idiot. After seeing that vet 3 times I went to another vet who is absolutely amazing. This vet did some tests and found out my leopard gecko was in kidney failure. That same day she removed 18 mls of fluid from her belly. Nine months later she is still alive but still having issues. I have to remove fluid from her belly every few days. She has put on a lot of weight since January but still is much skinnier than when she was healthy. When she was first diagnosed I searched the internet like crazy and couldn't find anything about leopard gecko kidney failure. Even my vet who has been a vet for 25 years and has worked with everything from sea turtles to cats has never seen this in a gecko before. It has been very frustrating not to find any information online or even in medical books. This post is here to let people who might deal with the same thing with their leopard gecko.

               Healthy                                                                                            Before Fluid was removed

After fluid was removed

Guinea Pig Eye Problems

I recently lost my Guinea Pig after complications from surgery. She suddenly had a protruding eye and I rushed her to the vet. She needed surgery to have it removed. The day after surgery her other eye started doing the same thing. I had to put ointment in her eye every 4 hours to keep that eye from having the same problem. The vet told me there was a possibility that she had chronic dry eye. She said that eye problems aren't uncommon in guinea pigs. Another problem seen in guinea pigs, as I was told by my vet is a sensitivity to antibiotics. This sensitivity is ultimately what they think killed my guinea pig. My vet thinks that the antibiotics she was on after surgery killed off the good bacteria rather than the bad. She died very suddenly before I even had a chance to help her. This post is to raise awareness in this issue with guinea pigs. From the day her eye prolapsed to the day she died was 8 days. She was perfectly healthy before that. It was a very sudden loss.

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Item Review

HPW sugar glider diet

5/5

My first 2 sugar gliders were from a breeder and my other 2 are rescues. The breeder told me to feed the gliders vegetables one night and fruit the next and sprinkle a certain vitamin powder on top. She also told me that it was up to me if I wanted to give my gliders protein. She said that protien would make them smelly so I didn't give them protein. 

I did this for about a year and a half until I decided to give the HPW a try. Everything about this diet is great! 

I don't need to buy vitamin powder anymore

Feeding time is much easier

I save money in the long run

And my gliders love it!

I followed the recipie from the HPW Diet Center (link at bottom) but bought my HPW (high protein wombaroo powder) from Exotic Nutrition (link at bottom) because it was a little cheaper. 

This diet can be a little expensive. The HPW is about $11, bee pollen from GNC is $11-$17 and the fruit/veggie mixture costs about $30. But! the fruit/veg mixture and HPW mixture both last about a month. 

Feeding the gliders how I was before usually resulted in me throwing half of the fruits and vegetables that I had bought in the garbage because it got old or my gliders got tired of eating it. With this diet, all of the food gets eaten. 

The smallest bag of HPW from exotic nutrition comes with enough powder for 5 batches. Each batch has lasted me about a month with 4 gliders. The fruit and vegetable mixture also lasted about a month. The bee pollen I'm going to have for a VERY long time. 

At night when I feed my sugar babies all I need to do is defrost 10 TBSP of fruit/veg and add 1 TBSP HPW mixture to each bowl and I'm done! Everything is already cut and prepared. 

Prep takes about an 1 - 1 1/2 hours to wash and cut all the fruit and vegetables. 

My gliders eat this MUCH better then the diet they were on before. 

The bowl in the back is the HPW mix

The left bowl is the fruit and the right bowl is the vegetables. 

(I mix the fruit and veggies together I just didn't have a big enough bowl to do it in)

The fruit and vegetables mixed together and put in 7 one quart bags (I put them in a gallon bag the first time and everything turned into one solid brick)

 

(This was a modification of mixture 2 from   The HPW diet center based on what my gliders do and don't like)

Peaches and pears in place of mixed berries 

Zucchini and celery in place of green bell peppers 

Golden delicious apples in place of gala apples

http://www.hpwdietcenter.com/original.html

http://www.exoticnutrition.com/suglde.html

Item Review

Merrick Cat food

5/5

I switched my cats over to Merrick healthy weight cat food around 2 weeks ago. My one cat is a VERY picky eater (and he was the stray!). He has inhaled this food, he absolutely loves it. Before I couldn't get him to eat anything but chicken proplan. The food is healthy weight for Tabatha, my very fat cat. She is also loving this food and seems to have slimmed down a little. My third cat will eat anything and is a perfect weight. 

Another thing I love about this food is the ingredients. For example, the beef wet food's ingredients is beef and water. There are no byproducts in this food and it is grain free. This food is real meat and real veggies, no filled. 

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