01/05/2026
MEDICAL MONDAY
Intro -Introducing myself
Please forgive me if you already saw this on our group page (private)
Susan Danziger, MD
(Human medicine). I handle the adoptions and fosters as well as personally adopt dragons who are not well enough to adopt out many require continued medical care.
Michelle, our president of the DFW branch and
Christi the president of our San Antonio branch are well versed in the medical needs of many different types of reptiles as a well.
My personal strength is rescue work, medical advice AND compassion for dragons and families!
Quick version!
-Introduced to dragons sept 1, 2020:
What the heck is a bearded dragon??😂😂
-serious set up flaws due to petstore advice given to my 19
YO daughter. This became my motivation to learn AND get angry 😳🤦🏻♀️
-My Love grew and numbers grew:
4 (plus 1-daughter’s second one to become mine, she was clearly happier in the company of others!🙌) with 4 months!! 2 of these were rescues! Plus one failure to thrive thrown in there. Riddled with parasites from the petstore 😭😭😭
-Numbers rose to 8 by 1 1/2 years (all 3 were rescue/rehomes).
-THEN I discovered Michelle in Dallas, Texas. She did rescue work and her pleas for homes caught my attention! I drove from Maryland to met her and Aimee (soon to be President and VP of North Texas Reptile Rescue) and my two adoptees Jay and Lucy Lou on May 14, 2023. Vet had told michelle both very unlikely to survive! She said “not on my watch”!
And here I am taking them home. Healthy and full of personality!!!
My beautiful fun new “babies”! (2 1/2 years later they are still running the house!)!
-I was invited to join them on the spot and NTRR took off on May 18, 2023! Me as adoption/foster coordinator 💖
-I added to my functions at NTRR by taking home many of the dragons we could not adopt out due to their medical needs or just simply we know were not going to make it for very long 😭😭. BUT the thrill for me is to give them the bestest forever ending! To know comfort and LOVE and yummy nutritious food and more LOVE 😇
-SO in comes massive VETERINARIAN experience simply from my many many visits to the vet. And from info gained from Michelle’s numerous visits with our amazing Dallas vet, Dr Tran (teaches us and gives us HUGE discounts 🤫) and now Christi’s growing number of visits!!!😬 to her SA vet, Dr Coke!
I am working now with Dr Nielson of Stahl Avian and Exotics Animals Services (SAEVS) a rising Dragon guru (with help of my many usual cases I bring to her).
🙌And I am realizing that much of dragon medicine comes from human medicine! I know this stuff! 😂🤦🏻♀️ of course there are many unique things about dragons that make them quite mysterious to us too!! 🥰
So this is me! And I want to share my (our) experiences and medical advice
In order to best help guide you to being your dragon’s best parent and advocate! 💓💓💓💓
