Iguana was attacked has flesh wound!

[jubjub]

**update** he saw the vet and had an antibiotic injection, and I have some pain med and topical cream for the wound. no bandage or stitches, he is resting comfortably now it looks like.



Does this look bad he still has movement in the leg which is good. there also wasn't much blood. I would say this one is a little bit worse than when he bit my other iguana a long time ago in the same place, and it healed with no problems. This happened during a brief encounter when I was giving them a bath.

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[jubjub]

I'll have to bring him to the vet tomorrow for probably an ex-ray and stitches? I flushed it with diluted chlorhexidine and I don't want to disturb him while hes sleeping by trying to bandage it it's pretty open I can see the exposed muscle. Surprising there isn't more blood...my other iguana is a 5 ft monster, I didn't see it happen but his jaws look so powerful he was probably holding onto the leg while biting/thrashing, that what they do

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look at the scar guess it was payback. same thing you could see muscle was pretty freak out then too but look at it now, I know its wicked gross sorry...anyone else have experience with anything like this? must happen a lot in the wild.

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[JennaAndIguanaGwen]

Ouch that looks painful, good to hear that hes doing well though. I hope you have decided not to bath them together, wounds and vet bills are no fun for anyone