
She had posted one photo and the gecko looked a little noodley. I contacted her and asked for more pictures and my heart sank. They looked horrific. I had to get them. I was going to pay for them at first, but at the urging of the RFUK group, I contacted her again, explained what was wrong with them and offered to rehab them if she was willing to give them to me for free. She even included their decor when we got to the house. She knew something was wrong but the pet store had told her they were fine. Once I said it was MBD and she researched it she was horrified. Their adult daughter abandoned them at their house and they were just doing the best they knew how to.
No calicum in the past year. Crickets were not being fed let alone gut loaded properly. Tank was over 100 degrees with a heat lamp. No moist hide. And all three are males.
They are rubber. RUBBER. They can't even squish up a squishy caterpillar their jaws are so soft.
There were three layers of shed in some places. The skinny one is probably going to end up blind in one eye from bad shedding, and they don't even shed their eyeballs like snakes do!
I honestly don't know if they'll survive. I'm still trying to figure out if it's humane to even try to save them. Too overloaded to even go there tonight and vet isn't open for three days.
I did get them all to eat by forcefeeding and they also drank. They're clean of most of the shed, except what's on their tippy toes. Which I think they're going to loose anyway because of how thick and tight the shed was.
Just ugh.

I'm worried he's just going to drop dead he's so thin.
On the ride home, shed on his head and tail.

After getting cleaned up and fed:

This one is full of bubbles and cupcakes. He can't actually cause damage by biting, but he tries! He has a broken/dislocated jaw. I think that means we have to put him to sleep, but I'm not positive.
Ride home

Clean and fed. He still has flipper feet from them being stuck in shed so long.

He's probably the best of the group, but he has severe scoliosis of the spine. All his organs are sitting to one side... Also a biter, but also the only one to take whole worms!


So yeah.... In a few days this will either be a rehab thread or a memorial thread....
Fingers crossed.