Bearded Dragon Rescue

29/11/24

We are sorry to report over the last few weeks we have had a massive increase in rescues and as from now we are FULL and can not take in any more

We do have 6 dragons ready for rehoming so if you would like a dragon please text message us on 07806 654343
This number is a text only number 


9/10/24

Its 2am and all critical care done for the night,  Later today going to collect something a LITTLE special for a rescue

Last night we picked up a 6 week old baby dragon from a lovely family in Liverpool and a very big thank you to them,  We was going to sell him to raise much needed funds but he is so so nice we cant let him go as the colour markings are off the scale

The family do have other ready to sell at £40 each and boy they are worth it,  If you want one whatsapp us and we can send pictures and I hope to post some pictures here later.

8/10/24

Sorry to say we are still FULL and can not accept any rescues at this time

7/10/24

Nice easy day no call outs so spent a lot of time with RED DWARF as she is shedding again and is looking sorry for herself
Our little Horsefield is doing well and eating everything he can 

6/10/24

So today we did'nt even have a chance to list one of our dragons as he was ready to rehome from yesterday and a lovely family in Liverpool had been in contact with us for the last few days wanted a larger bearded dragon from a rescue as they already 2 little babies.  So we matched them up with one that was a lazy eater and would love to be out his viverium 24x7 if he could.

The family had 2 small children and they was so excited to see not only the dragon we had for the Red Dwarf came for a visit.

The children gave us a lovely little note as seen below.  Just makes every rescue worth millions

Reaper the dragon is in a forever home and loving life with Jess and Alfie

5/10/24

Again a very busy day,  And we are still FULL and can not accept any rescues at this time
Text and email will always be open 24x7

We are asked a whole lot of times how much it costs us per visit to rescue a dragon?

Hard to say but here is some basic prices.

Petrol per visit average £60
Vet visit £60
X-Ray £70 each
Medication £ 100 average 

Total £290

As you may know we carry a whole host of drugs and treatments in our car and the total cost of everything is just over £1000
We feel this is a small price to pay to save a dragon while we travel and we can think of 2 cases that had we not had everything the dragons would have died on route back to our rescue

90% of the treatments we carry are over the counter treatments and dragon owners could have done what we do for themself,  So it is hoped that when we rehome a dragon to a new home the new owners are well aware of some of the health issues dragons can get,  And with our 24hrs x 7 day a week Text relay service and email support everyone we have contact with can reach out to us if they have any problems they need help with.

Another question we get asked is " Do you ever need to go back to a new home dragon "
Since we have been running we have only had 1 case that we have had to return and this was for a case that the dragon did not come from us.  So returns for dragons we have rehomed we have never had to go back to them,  Email and text relay support yes we have supported people and this is part of our work as no question is stupid and we never use the internet as there is so much rubbish out there about what you should and should not do with your bearded dragon

3/10/24 - 5pm

Been a real heart breaking day as we had to take one of the rescues we got yesterday to the local vet and it was not the news we wanted.
It turns out that she looked gravid but it was not the case and it was infact cysts and about 25 of them and this was very painful for her.
The vet told us there was a 5% chance she would survive but she would be in danger of them coming back,  And advised us that we should consider
putting her to sleep,  She passed away in our arms at 11.45am today.

We had her for less than 24hrs and she will never be forgotten as she was such a loving dragon

RIP ROXY 03/10/24




URGENT INFO WE ARE FULL - 9am

We are sorry to say we can not take in any more Lizards as we are full
All our vivs are taken and our 3 critical care vivs have been taken

As we have some really sick lizards my wife Deb is on day shift and Im on night shift so thats a check every 15 mins
The next few days are going to be hard work but we have not lost a single dragon yet and will do everything we can to save them

From 3/10/24 we can only deal with critical care cases
Text and email support still ok

We will keep everyone posted on how things are going

1/10/24

So on our travels today we rescued 2 new dragons and also have something a little special coming
Who wants a Horsefield tortoise?  We have to sell this one sorry people.  He will be sold for £50 NOW REHOMED To our own collection

More details will follow as soon as we have him

29/9/24

Reptile amburlance is getting fitted out today and more info to follow,  Most of the amburlance is done

So we have just taken a call about a 7 year old female and will be picking her up Tuesday and we have her already rehomed her as we have a short waiting list

Please if you want to rehome a dragon let us know so we can add your name to the waiting list and we will contact you as soon as we have something

28/9/24

For the first time since we started we are so so happy as we have no dragons needing a home,  And we never got to have a week off last week as we got a emergency call out for a dragon and we could not respond to the request.  Below is Greedo and has been with us since 20th September and he has the start of MBD and is not moving at all and will now be kept by us for the rest of his life as he needs a huge amount of love and care.

Greedo spent the first 7 day in our critical care viverium and was looked after every 15mins and now he has picked up a bit and a little more active we now cheek him every hour and some times it is better to give medication while he sleeps and this could be a as simple as a massage right up to the hardest thing to do is putting in a IV drip

Greedo has seen our VET and it has been confirmed he has the start of MBD and some other issues that we can not talk about here as we have not told the past owner yet.  The past owner asked us to keep them updated and we now do this every week,  So if you have a dragon or any type of lizard you are unable to look after for any reason, Please contact us and we will try and help.

If for any reason you are more than 2hrs away from us we will ask you to meet us about half way and please remember we do this for the love and not for the donations and any donation is put in a sealed enverlope that we give you and they are opened at the start of the year so we know how much we have for the year

We are hoping that as we get more busy the donations will cover our running costs as we are running at a loss at the moment and using our own money

Greedo is still a very sick dragon and we will keep everyone posted how he gets on over the coming weeks

14/9/24

We have had a very busy couple of weeks and we have not stopped since we started and we need to have a break so its with a heavy heart that we will not be open from 16th to 23rdSeptember
We will still be on email support and text support but need a break from all the driving

12/9/24

So we had a late night last night and I wonder why

This is RED DWARF and a female red tegu and is in the middle of a shed so the colours are not that bright
I have just looked at her and some more has come off and will post a new picture as soon as she has fully shed

RED DWARF IS NOT FOR SALE FOR ANY MONEY IN THE WORLD 

PLEASE NOTE We are a rescue and we love to help out everyone we can however, We cant travel for many hours to collect dragons

11/9/24
The last couple of days we have been very busy and we are now fully open and can accept rescues again
Annabel and Bianca have found a loving home and will be kept together as we would not have them split up
We are over the moon as they will now have all the love and care they need

Today Princess got her forever home and we spent some time with her to make sure she would settle in and she did.
So again we are so so happy that she is now going to get all the love and care she needs

We now only have one dragon to rehome and she is held back for someone who we are meeting the weekend

7/9/24

We have just had a call to collect 2 females.  This means we are full and can not accept any more rescues
We will update as soon as as we have more space

9/9/24

Ash and Angel from 7/9/24 are now in our care and we are over the moon to report Ash found her forever home yesterday
We have also just got someone asking about Angel and may be going to yorkshire

Before any dragon is rehomed we have to do a home visit to see the equipment you have.
This is in no way to see how you live this is just to make 100% sure the dragon has its needs met

HOW IT WORKS

You tell us who you would like to rehome,  We send you pictures and details,  You like the dragon and want it.
We then make an appointment to do a home visit with the dragon
If you have everything it needs and the dragon is settled when it meets you,  We then ask you to sign some paperwork
You are then offered to make a donation to help with costs
The dragon is then handed over to yourself
We leave you with a care pack to keep you going for a few days

Simple and no judgement made,  We do this for the dragons, Nothing more nothing less

Our rescue service started in early 2024 after it became apparent there was a need for a safe house for bearded dragons mainly in the north west.

We are the only UK's dedicated bearded dragon rescue,  we only deal with dragons,  however we will attend any rescue for a LIZARD

PLEASE NOTE: We are not able to rescue any SNAKES, SPIDERS, TORTOISE, TURTLE, FROGS ect we only rescue LIZARDS

Since we started many dragons have been rescued, rehabilitated and rehomed thoughout the UK.

Do you have a bearded dragon you cant handle?
If the answer is yes contact us as we can help with hints and tips to help you and we also offer bearded dragon training program.  

There are an increasing number of lizards being kept as pets, quite often without the correct information being given about the care, resulting in many lizards suffering through lack of knowledge.

A whole lot of information found on the internet and pet stores are not 100% correct as we have been there many years ago and we do visit pet stores to see what information they are giving to the public so if you want sound advice visit a reptile store or contact us as we have over 40 years experiance.

One thing we hate and we see it a lot is that a pet store will sell a 2x2x2ft glass fish tank and tell you thats perfect for a bearded dragon.
This information is 100% wrong a bearded dragon needs a viverium 4x2x2ft and thats the bare minimum.
This is the law not just us saying it ( Ref Animal welfare act )

A fully grown bearded dragon could quite easily be better housed in a 5x2x3ft and we advise all customers to house a bearded dragon in as large a viverium as possible, Please do not waste money on a small viverium only having to get a larger viverium a few months later.  Get it right from the start.

Another problem is people are told you can keep more than one dragon in a vivarium.  Again this is not at all correct as dragons live alone in the wild unless they are coming together for breeding, So please never have more than one per vivarium.

One more that we hate is when you are told dragons do not drink water this is without a doubt in our minds crule and 100% neglect and again is against the animal welfare act, regardless if a dragon will drink water or not a fresh water bowl should be offered every day

We have bearded dragons looking for good loving homes ( Rehoming Tab ) and we never house a lizard without knowing it will be its forever home and we have to be 100% sure you have the setup needed to care for the lizard and you will be reqired to show photos of your setup,  Please do not be put off if we say your setup is not correct and we will work with you to make sure you have everything you need so you have a trouble free lizard.

If you have to give up your lizard to us please can we ask you also donate the viverium and all equipment as we are always looking for extra stuff as if we cant use it we sell it via ebay and all funds raised help pay the costs of having the lizards and the biggest is our electric bill.  Or if you lizard has gone to the reptile heaven we would also accept the vivs and equipment, 
If you are unable to donate equipment we can also accept paypal donations and every penny really helps us.

NEW SERVICE FROM 1st OCT 2024

From the 1st of october 2024 we will be offering a reptile amberlance service so what is this?

So we are adding our service for LIZARDS ONLY and it will work like this,  We taxi you and your lizard to the local reptile vets and the service is 100% free and we just ask for a donation to help cover the costs for running the service,  You can also pre book us and the service will run from 9am to 6pm every day of the week,  We will also offer a out of hours emergency service so if your lizard is sick and you need to get to the vets we can come and get you to take your lizard to the vets and take you back home.

EMERGENCIES,  If your lizard has had a accident we will come and visit with our reptile first aid kit and in the reptile amburlance and can deal with minor problems on the spot and should we feel a vet is needed we have our own vet on call 24x7 and this is Liverpool University reptile vets and they have their own charges that you will need to pay, or you can use your own reptile vet.  Again this is a 100% free service and only ask for a donation to help cover the costs and just for information the reptile first aid kit costs over £500 per year,  Should we need to treat your lizard more than once we leave you with the medication and details what needs to be done.

Please note the following,  If we have treated your lizard and at a later date it dies we accept no responsibility we only treat minor accidents that you could have done yourself.

DATA Protection,  We will require you to sign a accident report and for this your details are held on computer and you can request to view the data,  At no point is this data passed to a 3rd party other than the RSPCA Or Police and only when a court orders us to had over details

Between 6am and 6pm please text us and all other times you need to ring us on 07806 654343 please leave a message and we will respond as needed even if we cant help we will make contact with you

Many thanks Paul and Deb