This is a page devoted to the injured reptiles I get from various places, like vets, members of the public, or I might find them myself. I only have anmials here that I keep for more than a week. I get many more than this, but sometimes I just need to relocate them, or give them a fews days of Rest and Relaxation, and lots of food.

If you want to know more about the different species, go to the Common Species Page.

Click on the name to see that animals record;

Name	Common Name	Scientific Name	Complaint	Outcome?
Pinky	Pink tongue skink	Cyclodomorphus gerrardii	Attacked by dog, tail severely severed
Mel	Pink tongue skink	Cyclodomorphus gerrardii	Large chunk of face missing	Released
Stumpy	Blue tongue skink	Tiliqua scincoides	No back legs, maggot infestation	Died
Little Sausage	Blue tongue skink	Tiliqua scincoides	Tail dropped, slightly underweight	Released
Bluey	Blue tongue skink	Tiliqua scincoides	Attacked by dog. Multiple punture wounds	Died
BD	Bearded Dragon	Pogona barbata	Head trauma	Died

Pinky

Pink tongue skink

Cyclodomorphus gerrardi

I got Pinky from my local vet, after a lady had brought it it to them. Her dog had bitten into its tail, but it wasn't completely severed. Skinks have the ability to voluntarily drop their tails, via the process of autotomy, which is Latin for 'Self Cut'. In this case, however, the animal hadn't dropped its tail, and the vet didn't amputate, because it was very close to the cloaca (vent).

I am waiting for Pinky to recover. It still has trouble with its hind limbs.

Mel

Pink tongue skink

Cyclodomorphus gerrardii

I found Mel in my backyard, and it had a large portion of the left side of its face missing. I kept it for a while, but because the bone was missing, it never grew back. Mel could eat eat fine, and there was some scar tissue on the wound, so I released it back into my yard

Stumpy

Blue tongue skink

Tiliqua scincoides scincoides

A friend of mine found Stumpy walking across the road in front of her car. She got out to try and hurry it on, and realised it had no back legs. Knowing I look after injured reptiles, she brought it to me. I inspected the wounds where the legs should have been, and found them to be full of maggots. I cleaned the wounds with insect repellent, and manually removed the maggots for a week. Because it had to drag its hind half around, there was a wound on its underside. I applied Potassium permangenate to try and for a callous over the wound. This went on for a while, and then one day I found it dead in its enclosure. I didn't perform a necropsy, so I am unsure of the cause of death, but it was possibly from septacaemia.

Little Sausage

Blue tongue skink

Tiliqua scincoides scincoides

Little Sausage was given to me by a vet, after someones dog had attacked it. It had dropped the distal part of its tail, but the wound was nice and clean. It was also slightly underweight. As Winter was approaching, and lizards store fat in their tails,this was a problem. The tail healed quickly, and it put on weight, so I released it after a few weeks.

Picture:

Little Sausage

Tail

Bluey

Blue tongue skink

Tiliqua scincoides scincoides

Bluey was an adult BTL. A person had noticed it in their yard, and it 'looked sick'. They brought it around to me, and I set about fixing it up. I cleaned the wounds, and applied an antibiotic ointment to them. Alas, after a few days, it died. The autopsy revealed many broken ribs, and a massive infection.

BD

Eastern bearded dragon

Pogona barbata

A vet asked me to look after BD after it had been presented to them with some sort of head trauma. For a while, it sat in its' enclosure and did nothing. I placed dead crickets in its' mouth, and it swallowed them. After the first week, it started to move around. I built it a larger enclosure, and placed lots of branches in it, so BD could climb. It became alot more active, but it still wouldn't eat. After a few weeks, it started to spit out the food items I was placing in its' mouth, so I started to syringe-feed it baby food. A few weeks later, it died.