Urgent: pooping out mice organs??

hoosier · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject: Urgent: pooping out mice organs??

my tegu is sort of house broken now and wont go in his cage anymore and only goes outside. well i let him out today to do his business and when he did i looked at it to make sure it looks ok as usual when i noticed something weird. he poopd out what looked to be mouse organs. it looked like a tiny liver about the size of half of a penny. along with it was some fur leading me to believe that it was mouse organd and not his own.
my question is, has anyone here ever seen this before? is it common or is it a bad thing? i have never encountered this kind of thing before and am looking for any advice and answers i can.

thank you,
Mat
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mike · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject:

I have never encountered this problem. I would guess your tegu doesn't have high enough temps. Try to keep it warmer in there, and keep him hydrated. Have you ever seen your tegu evert? It could have been a hemipene....those often have the same color as a liver. (I don't know exactly what you saw.....these are just guesses).
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hoosier · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:25 am Post subject:

after close examination and reasoning i have come to conclude that what i saw was actually just the skin from the apples i have been feeding him. they just lost their color in the GI tract.

whst a relief...
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mike · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:41 am Post subject:

Good to know. Glad everything is alright.

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