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Please help, she's been doing this for about half an hour now, directly after she ate food (food she usually eats) she opened her mouth REALLY wide, so wide I could see down her throat even though there was nothing there. She made these squelching noises and now she just puts her head down on the floor and doesn't move at all, doesn't even blink, she looks dead but every now and then she does that gasping thing again. I tried offering her more food, putting her in water twice, taking her outside, anything I could think of! It's happened once before but like a year ago I can't remember exactly but I think we leave her at the "limp" stage and she was normal the following day, but now I'm really worried, sometimes when I pick her up and she doesn't move at all I think she's dead and it's heartstopping. Please please please help. My mum said she heard "coughing/sneezing" from her a few times the past couple of days, she's a five year old female marginated tortoise, I don't know if this is relevant but her butt is all swollen up and she rarely drinks when I usually put her in water she doesn't drink at all.
I was literally about to ask about her swollen butt until she started gasping, I only noticed it was really swollen today, it was a tiny bit swollen before.
It started off with her eyes bulging some red stuff, & it's creepy now at the moment because if I wave my hands infront of her she doesn't do ANYTHING, she usually flinches or looks my way or something, I have to poke her leg pretty hard to see if she's still breathing or not.
And all this bubbly snot stuff comes from her nostrils & mouth area
I was literally about to ask about her swollen butt until she started gasping, I only noticed it was really swollen today, it was a tiny bit swollen before.
It started off with her eyes bulging some red stuff, & it's creepy now at the moment because if I wave my hands infront of her she doesn't do ANYTHING, she usually flinches or looks my way or something, I have to poke her leg pretty hard to see if she's still breathing or not.
And all this bubbly snot stuff comes from her nostrils & mouth area