🦎 Texas Spiny Lizard Recovering After Attack ❤

𝕊𝕌𝔹𝕊ℂℝ𝕀𝔹𝔼! 𝕊𝕄𝔸𝕊ℍ +ℝ𝕌𝕄𝔹𝕃𝔼 𝔹𝕌𝕋𝕋𝕆ℕ!

Amelia, a female Texas Spiny Lizard from San Angelo, was recently attacked by a suspected cat and suffered some internal injuries and a possibly broken spine that left her paralyzed in her back legs for several days. This is a very common injury I have seen many times over the years, caused by outdoor cats. Amelia's finder was very concerned about her condition, and agreed to pay the overnight air shipping for Amelia to come here so that we could try to save her life and rehabilitate her. That decision saved her life and will probably allow Amelia to regain some or most of her use of her back legs eventually. When a small animal is bitten by a cat, we usually have only about 24rs to put them on antibiotics for the cat bite, otherwise they die in almost every case (bunny, squirrel, bird, etc.). When it's a small reptile, we might have an additional day to catch the infection in time, but it also takes longer for the medicine to work in reptiles too. And small reptiles often have punctured internal organs or broken spines too, which adds to the trauma they suffer, because they're small enough for most cats to put fully in their mouths and the teeth penetrate in several places. Thanks to her finder sending her without delay, I think we got her in enough time to get her on antibiotics to deal with what would otherwise be a fatal infection from the cat bite, and got her on corticosteroid anti-inflammatories to help relieve the pressure of the swelling on her spinal column. We also put her on a small dose of a very promising experimental peptide medicine that's been used with great success before, called BPC-157. It was injected just lateral to the spinal column, subcutaneously, near the injury where it will be most effective. After only a couple of days of treatment, Amelia here shows remarkable progress toward recovery. She is now responding in her back legs quite strongly. This indicates that while her spine may be broken (due to the obvious irregular hump in her back), her spinal cord was not severed. In this video, her back is less swollen than it was when she fist arrived here. If medicine is received fast enough to reduce the inflammation on the spinal cord, the damage may not be permanent. It's not necessarily a severed spinal cord that leads to paralysis or paresis in the lower body. It can also be caused by swelling on the spinal cord. If it's not addressed then the nerves can be damaged and it may become a permanent disability, but you need to address with anti-inflammatories to find out. As in Amelia's case, it might not be a permanent condition, and it's hoped that she will continue to recover in the coming weeks and may eventually regain enough mobility to be wild again. But, if not, she will have a home as a special needs sanctuary animal as well. Spiny Lizards can be tamed and trained to come to you and eat from your hands. They're very smart. She was named Amelia by her finder, because she flew by overnight air to the rescue. 🦎 🛫 ❤

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