Blue tongue acting very strange... help? (RI?)
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2014 2:43 pm
I just got home from school and my three year old IJ blue tongue is exhibiting some very strange behavior.
He was sitting under his heat lamp, and suddenly I saw him hold his head up in the air and violently shake it back and forth. He did it a few more times, sometimes with his mouth open, as if he was trying to dislodge something. Now he has his two front legs up on his hidebox, with his nose straight up and his eyes closed.
Has anyone seen this behavior before? I'm a bit worried.
Update: I held him up to my ear to see if I could detect any labored breathing, and there was not. However, I opened up his mouth and noticed quite a large amount of fluid in there. He shed last week, and his enclosure is probably a bit more wet than usual.
What should I do to counteract this? If he needs to go to the vet, I will do that. But it's unlikely that it will be today or tomorrow, because I cant get a ride to the vet today and I work tomorrow.
He was sitting under his heat lamp, and suddenly I saw him hold his head up in the air and violently shake it back and forth. He did it a few more times, sometimes with his mouth open, as if he was trying to dislodge something. Now he has his two front legs up on his hidebox, with his nose straight up and his eyes closed.
Has anyone seen this behavior before? I'm a bit worried.
Update: I held him up to my ear to see if I could detect any labored breathing, and there was not. However, I opened up his mouth and noticed quite a large amount of fluid in there. He shed last week, and his enclosure is probably a bit more wet than usual.
What should I do to counteract this? If he needs to go to the vet, I will do that. But it's unlikely that it will be today or tomorrow, because I cant get a ride to the vet today and I work tomorrow.