Some of the comments did make it more difficult on me but there were plenty of others that seemed to have my back. It’s the internet, not everyone is going to be nice. It happens everywhere, not just this forum! This was a learning experience for me though. Many commenters helped me a lot even...
Thanks for the advise, I understand now that they can be complex. I brought mine outside as much as I could too but we have too much snow/cold weather for me to have really kept him active outside. Your torts are lucky to have you!
I know he could have lived a long time, I always looked forward to living my life out with him. I did a lot of searching but without knowing the name of what happened to him, I couldn’t find anything. I looked up various ways of “redness under shell” and couldn’t see anything that looked like...
Thank you, I’m hoping this post will help others too. Especially the pictures. I searched and searched for pictures that looked similar to what my tortoise had and without knowing the name of what happened to him, I couldn’t find anything that looked similar. Maybe someday I’ll get another one...
Thanks for the kind words. I’m young and this unfortunate experience has taught me a lot. I just know I won’t be owning another tortoise, I never want this to happen again :( hopefully I will be able to give advise to other tortoise owners though so they don’t do what I did.
I understand your anger, I said in the beginning that I really didn’t know how to care for him. I realize I did things wrong now. I also said there aren’t any reptile vets near me, I would’ve taken him somewhere if I knew where to go. I don’t think a cat and dog vet would have put him down...
For starters, I have an 8 year old male Russian Tortoise. I bought him from a pet store and unfortunately wasn’t very educated on how to care for him, so I apologize for anything I say in the following message that may seem like an obvious red flag or something!
Anyway, mid February I noticed he...