Ornate box turtle beak & nails overgrown?

[Psychoticexotix13]

Hi, new to this forum however I feel like my box turtles beak and nails are a little too long now and how do I go about safely trimming them? A Dremel seems very invasive and uncomfortable to do to a turtle and I don't want to be the one to do it cause she knows I'm her human that feeds and enriches her in her enclosure and she gets happy(i.think) whenever she sees me so I'm not trying to have her associate me as the monster lady using machinery to sand her beak down. Lol. It seems like it's a lil harder for her to grab a hold of worms as good as she use to. So idk I need to do something fast though if it's going to jeopardize her health. Can someone please draw on the photo of her beak and show me where it should be cut down to? I'd appreciate it.

 

[DoubleD1996!]

Hi, new to this forum however I feel like my box turtles beak and nails are a little too long now and how do I go about safely trimming them? A Dremel seems very invasive and uncomfortable to do to a turtle and I don't want to be the one to do it cause she knows I'm her human that feeds and enriches her in her enclosure and she gets happy(i.think) whenever she sees me so I'm not trying to have her associate me as the monster lady using machinery to sand her beak down. Lol. It seems like it's a lil harder for her to grab a hold of worms as good as she use to. So idk I need to do something fast though if it's going to jeopardize her health. Can someone please draw on the photo of her beak and show me where it should be cut down to? I'd appreciate it. View attachment 347813View attachment 347822View attachment 347818View attachment 347819View attachment 347820

It's honestly not that bad. You could feed her on something rough like a broken cinder block and it will trim down naturally

 

[Yvonne G]

That beak looks ok to me. Don't cut up her food, and like was said above, change out your feeding bowl for a chunk of rough cement or rock.

 

[Psychoticexotix13]

Okay whewww! I was worried for a sec. I'm overly paranoid with my reptiles. Thought my banana ball python had mites but it was her freckles 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️you can just never be too sure. Lol okay that's probably why her beak is starting to get a lil longer I just put a lil cement bowl in there and I'm gonna put her food in that from now on. Thank y'all so much for the quick responses. I did have a cuttlebone at one point but I rarely saw her chomp at it. Def gonna start leaving her food whole too even worms. Maybe I can add something more crunchy to her diet. She loves superworms, but I wonder if the beetles from the superworm larvae might be okay to add to the menu? Or mealworm beetles? Are they okay to feed boxies after they become the beetle and all? I know my tarantula likes mealworms but once they turn into a beetle she don't want no part of 'em. Lol