Newt leg broken what should I do

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william

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Yesterday I was sent 3 more Paramesotriton fuzhongensis (because I recieved 3 DOA) well after checking the newts I realized that one had gone through hell it had: a large head wound, large chunk taken out of front leg, and large chunk taken out of the back leg plus it is broken and the bone sticks out went it walks its so sad. One part of good news is that it is very active. I put neosporin on all the wounds and have isolated it from the other 4, but I was wondering if I should leave the leg alone and let it fall of by itself, make a splint, or should I cut it off?
 
Never mind the poor little creature died today from its wounds.
 
Sorry...
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Don't touch the newt, William. If you cut off the legs you could make several damages and, mainly, cause new infections. My advice is: Put the newt in clean water ; in fact, doesn't matter if it's faucet water ( chlorinated ). If you say that the animal looks active, try to feed it a lot... probably the leg will fall itself with the time. But be careful with the infection, if grows you should begin a harder treatment with a salt solution ( http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/articles.shtml )

Many times Paramesotriton fuzhongensis is coming from the wild, and I prefer not imagine the conditions of the transport...
 
Thanks for the info Ruben, but like I said earlier it died yesterday. And yes I did read through the articles, but I wanted some personal opinions.

(Message edited by wishz1 on March 10, 2005)
 
Aw
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That's sad....how did it happen? Do you think they sent you an injured newt, or did it get injured in transport?
 
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