Heart Stopping Moment

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Heart Stopping Moment

Postby skeetersmom » Fri Aug 03, 2012 4:48 pm

Skeeter came out of his tube hide when he heard me in the room (usual reaction) and I looked over and my heart stopped! I saw red (later giggled at myself) on his side! I jumped up, to see it was just the way the light was hitting him (combined with a shadow) but I tell you it scared the dickens out of me!

Being a former field medic in the military - my first reaction to the red coloration was...blood. What color is BTS blood/hemolymph? I just hope I never see that again :)

So it got me wondering if any other BTS caregivers have had heart stopping moments.....
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Re: Heart Stopping Moment

Postby skeetersmom » Fri Aug 03, 2012 4:49 pm

and you can see by his pic how this could have happened - the brownish orangish coloration on his side..
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Re: Heart Stopping Moment

Postby Fatal_S » Fri Aug 03, 2012 5:08 pm

My heart stops all the time. Whenever I see a skink who normally hides laying in the open asleep. That's what they do to die. Terrifies me every time and I have to wake them up or watch them breathe. As long as they're hiding, I'm okay.
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Postby AnnaMonroe » Fri Aug 03, 2012 7:26 pm

Fatal_S , what do you mean "that's what they do to die" ? :O
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Re: Heart Stopping Moment

Postby Fatal_S » Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:28 pm

In my experience (which has sadly been too much experience) a skink who is ill or dying will come out into the open. At no point have I had a skink die while hidden. Every skink I've had die is laying in the open, semi-curled up, with sunken in eyes. So when I see a skink laying in the open, I get worried. If a skink died in hiding I'd have to assume it happened quickly or the skink was too cold to get into the open.
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Re: Heart Stopping Moment

Postby AnnaMonroe » Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:35 pm

Oh no!! :/ I can't imagine how upsetting that must be, but at the same time it's very interesting, behavior-wise.
Your post honestly made me wonder, what could drive them to come out in the open like that to...well, pass on? :(
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Re: Heart Stopping Moment

Postby Fatal_S » Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:37 pm

Last ditch attempt to warm up and recover I think. Natural instinct. Just my thoughts on it.
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Re: Heart Stopping Moment

Postby AnnaMonroe » Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:42 pm

I don't doubt that one bit. They're such intriguing animals!
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Re: Heart Stopping Moment

Postby LarissaLurid » Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:45 pm

I can definitely understand why you'd think that as well Fatal. D:
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Re: Heart Stopping Moment

Postby Spindown » Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:37 pm

lol my reptiles are always getting poked when they lay weird, or are "too still" etc. I worry and wake them up for no reason...they get pretty annoyed at me, but I have to check on them :)
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