my lil girl was finally put down.

Well last night I finally made the decision to put down my little leopard gecko. She was wasting away and really could not afford to take her to a vet. We feed her atleast 3 waxies a day until yesterday and she gained no weight and she looked far worse as she went along. Since the weather is like 7 degrees outside, I placed her in a reptile container with some paper towels and laid her outside after spending some time with her. It was a difficult choice to be made but she was suffering. I just didn't want her to die a horrid death from parasites and starvation.

update already.

Thanks folks, I do appreciate it, she was a good gecko when she was here.
Well, her tank didn't stay empty for long. It was cleaned out with hot water and soap, rinsed well. And setup for a Crested Gecko that my girlfriend wanted to get. she has had her eye on this guy for about a month now. She is pretty excited about him. At the shop I go to, I was given boxes of repti bark for no reason. (reason why I love being a regular at a local petshop) He recieved a few boxes of about 1 dry litre bags of this stuff. Pretty nice and fine crushed cyprus. So I placed in the cleaned cage along with some spagmum moss and set him in there. Its a pretty nice looking setup right now. When I can pick up a 20 gallon or atleast one of those screen cages for him, I will.

I wanted to get a 75 gallon tank for a reef and right now, it will have to sit in the basement. lol, I have to many tanks to care for right now. Getting an 18 inch Cal king snake in a few weeks, as an adoption, and my girl now wants a ball python. So it looks like my Computer room will also be the reptile room with in the next month.

Mako said:

Sad to hear trickster. That's THE reason I stopped keeping iguanas. Actually geckos are not nearly as tricky, but iguanas are just hard to keep healthy unless mom and dad are lawyers and doctors (ie, $$$$).

Sounds like it may have had a nutrient defficiency? Did you use herp vitamins? I have a friend that wets the crickets and covers them with cyclo-eez powder (odd crossover but the tegu seems to adore it!).

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Mako,
it was basically a problem with either being badly impacted but she was deficating so we felt that it was a parasite issue. This does happen with Petco lizards on occassions. As for Iguanas, I never really have to many problems with mine. He is about 5 1/2 feet long and about 5 years old, give or take a year. He is a pretty good guy and fairly healthy. I have added a picture of him with my girlfriend, she holds like a cat.

TheMightyQueenPixie said:

The unpleasant side of pet ownership is this very necessary, but also very upsetting thing...You did the right thing for her...It takes alot of guts to put a pet out of its misery...Sorry to hear about your loss

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Thanks MQP,
Yeah, in reality it took me awhile to decide to put her down. I wanted to wait a little bit longer but my girlfriend held her and saw how tiny she gotten. She was getting visibly upset.
Upset Girlfriend + wasting away gecko = painless death.

This was the first pet my girlfriend had to deal with being put down. It was very sad, cause I do get attached to my Reptiles. I had an Iguana for over 6 years and I got him as an adoption. His name was halfass. I was pretty upset when I found him in his cage dead.