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    Why didn't anyone warn me..

    My girl is going to China! She digs...a lot. It’s something I didn’t know when I found and decided to keep her. She is big enough that I can always find her but OMGosh,She loves to go under things to dig. My shed and trailer are great examples. She is a “big” girl. We can’t always retrieved her...
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    My girl is broken

    Spell correct is my monster. My girl is around 20yo. I have had her 10ish years. She is 50lbs. I moved recently to middle Tennessee. There aren’t many like her here.The vet treated her like something new. The techs were so excited that she was there. I will move to a farm soon where she...
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    My girl is broken

    No X-ray. They yanked on her leg and watched her walk. she was annoyed and pulled it back fiercely. We are on a wait and see plan. She is using it, and she is walking on it. It just isn’t working like the other leg. He thinks it’s probably an infection or strain. Either way he wants to wait...
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    My girl is broken

    We went to the vet this morning. We were given baytril and predisone. Any known tricks to give a tortoise a pill? I was thinking coffee grinder on the pills and putting them on or in fruit. The zoo told my vet they give pills in a tube or injections. (I’m not sure if I can do that.)My...
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    My girl is broken

    She is using it but, not the way she used to. We named her speed bump because I almost ran her over with my car when we found her. We nicked named her speedy because she used to be really fast. She isn’t now. She is a survivor. I’ll help her. I’ll look to the list now. I was hoping for...
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    My girl is broken

    my tortoise is limping. I can only speculate on what happened. It’s her back left leg and she is doing ok without it but, she shouldn’t be like this.She is 10 and has a lot of years ahead of her. I gave her a week to shake it off. She hasn’t. What’s next? Does anyone know any tortoise vets...
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    Sulcata-legal in TN? & care questions

    This is a very rough image of her new home. We made it based loosely on a you tube video we saw. It’s a rubber made shed with spray insulation in its sides. We dug out a foot of earth under it and the bottom sides are lined with more spray insulated cinder blocks (she won’t stop digging). Under...
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    Sulcata-legal in TN? & care questions

    We bought a pre made rubber shed. We blew lamp into the holes. We dug a cinder blocks depth into the ground. Then w im sorry. I was having a crazy finger moments. I think everything’s about my post is wrong but, I really do need help and if I new how to move itto the thread that I would get the...
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    Sulcata-legal in TN? & care questions

    Lol, it’s 36 here. I want to go home to the Redlands
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    Sulcata-legal in TN? & care questions

    I got crazy fingers and posted before I could read and edit. There is a lot more to the story. I wasn’t able to fix it in the 15 minutes I had to edit On the first note, the best I can tell is that my tortoise is a non aggressive, non invasive class 3 species. She is a 60lb sulcata. Does...
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    Sulcata-legal in TN? & care questions

    ive recently moved to Tennessee from Miami Fla. google searches are just confusing me more.. I need advice. Whenever I google search, I’m not even able to tell if I can have my girl here
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    Hello from Miami

    Sadly the fangs are gone. They were really cute. On the bright side, after collecting her from her house, shes strolling and chomping her way through the yard again like usual. Its strange that im considering now her intelligence. Shes gone to school with my daughter and has been oggled by 6...
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    Hello from Miami

    She is still pretty upset and wont come out of her shell for me. The first photo is of her and her pyramids. She is smoother on her sides and has the lumps on the top. When i found her all of the top pieces were next to each other and closer to her skirt. I thought she was getting better but she...
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    Hello from Miami

    This is a picture i took yesterday of her fangs/face.When she comes out for the day i will take another of her. She is pyramided and I would like to know if shes improving (i think so but, dont know where new growth comes from) . She is also alot darker on her shell than any of the tortoises ive...
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    Hello from Miami

    Hi, my name is Melanie and im new to this site. I have a >6 year old sulcata tortoise named speed bump that i found on the road 6 years ago. I found this site Wednsday while searching for info on speed bumps new vampire fangs. I learned alot that day. i went to the vet, got some really bad...
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