He was kept in a very small enclosure his whole life. He will use them but only if he wants to. All he really had to do was turn before. His previous owners had him in a 15"x32" pen. Now he has 36"x 8 foot indoor and half a block outside.
Well I managed to get enough out of him to fill a large soup bowl. I can not believe that was all in there for him being undersized. He actually pooped last night on his own a considerable amount. Such a relief since his last success poo was July.
We grind up the hay we give him. I am thinking he found some clippings from mowing. Definetly going to make sure he eats only what we give him in the future.
Yea stressful it is. I want to throw up after and that's not small thing being I spent years as a meat cutter/butcher and hunter. We been giving him canned pumpkin also. I do however have a full bottle of that Lactulose sitting here. It's kind of sticky so we never tried it through his back...
We been soaking him for about an hour in warm water. It's just so packed in there. As hard as I am pulling to get it out I can't imagine him pushing that out. It's blades of grass basically glued together and like I said very much compacted together. Been giving him basically what has been...
I just got enough green grass pulled out to fill a plastic easter egg. he hasn't had access to eat that much grass in months with the drought we had. God I hope this is the best way to help him as it takes some pulling to pull it out of there. I am so dam pissed at the ISU vets. We have been...
He soaks in the tub in warm water. He don't move a whole lot. He is not much of a mover anyway due to how he has spent the majority of his life before we got him. Which was in a small farm water trough. He mainly uses his front feet and drags his back ones. He never really needed the back ones.
Our Sulcata is backed up. The local university vet (Iowa State University) is useless. He has this year had a massive bladder stone removed and the majority of his penis due to a prolapse. He can't poop. He grunts and groans and pushes but only liquid poop comes out. We looked up into the...
That all makes sense. The person who dealt with the prolapsed penis was a vet from the near by zoo that has tortoises but not sulcatas but tortoises none the less. She is also a friend of the vet we have been dealing with. He is very attractive and he seems to have reduced in his groaning...
He wants able to poop after the prolapsed penis happened. He actually had a hint of green and orange in the liquid he let out last night. Maybe things are starting to move. I hope.
Forgot to mention there is a radiant heater to keep the temp and am getting a humidifier to regard humidity as it is getting cooler and dryer out. We keep him in a table I built that is 36"wide and 8 feet long. He spent the warm sunny days outside before surgery. He has to be kept clean so he...
Thanks for the replies. The stone removal was done from the under side through an opening they cut out. It is sealed with epoxy and some type of screen mesh. The few times we have soaked him we wrap him in food plastic Saran Wrap to keep the area dry. His pen has a laminate floor on it we put...
New guy here. We have a tortoise that was a rescue. He has had a rough life in bad conditions. He has bad pyramiding was only feed Romane lettuce and no UV or been outside. He had a prolapsed penis so we took him to the vet at the near by college. He had most of it removed. After this he stopped...