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Help - injured slow worm: |
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mandy Member Joined: 30 Apr 2007 No. of posts: 3  View other posts by mandy |
Posted: 30 Apr 2007 Hi All, Needing help as my daughter has rescued an injured slow worm from the garden yeaterday. It looks like it may have been injured by a strimmer or possibly a cat and has a nasty, deep but clean cut from 'ear to ear'. I'm concerned it may not be able to eat, at least for a while. At the moment it is in a smallish plastic animal carrier - about 25cm x 15cm x 20 high with some grass and dandelion leaves at one end. Question is what to do - how long can it survive without eating? Should we put some grass clippings / bark chips in? Any help gratefully received. Mandy |
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Alan Hyde Senior Member Joined: 17 Apr 2003 No. of posts: 1416 View other posts by Alan Hyde |
Posted: 30 Apr 2007 Hi Mandy! Well done for rescuing the little guy. If the wound is fresh and open just give it a bit of a clean with some warm (not hot) steralised water on a cotton pad , the kind used for removing make-up. Then the best thing to do is probably leave the slowy in the container in peace and see how he/she picks up. Slow-worms will survive for quite some time without nosh so don't worry to much. If it does pick up then put a couple of white slugs in and see if it feeds. Soil (Without Chemicals) and bark chips will be fine , also put something in there for it to hide under and just keep the container out of sunlight at room temp. I wish you the best of luck, please let us know how things go Alan  O-> O+> |
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mandy Member Joined: 30 Apr 2007 No. of posts: 3 View other posts by mandy |
Posted: 30 Apr 2007 Thanks for replying so quickly Alan - we will let you know how he does. Mandy |
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Alan Hyde Senior Member Joined: 17 Apr 2003 No. of posts: 1416 View other posts by Alan Hyde |
Posted: 30 Apr 2007 You're most welcome
Best of luck! O-> O+> |
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arvensis Senior Member Joined: 15 Mar 2006 No. of posts: 445 View other posts by arvensis |
Posted: 30 Apr 2007 Mandy, I tried to reply to your Pm regarding this, but the PM service is playing up. The best bet is to follow Alans' advice - he knows more than I do regarding herp care(I don't keep any). Hopefully the Slowwie will recover. cheers, Mark Hampshire Amphibian and Reptile Group. |
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