It’s been awhile since I last posted and to be honest it’s been a stressful 7 months as my 8 year old Sulcata “Srinual” (means cream color in thai) has been sick on and off, not eating, not pooping, generally very constipated and very lethargic. He was back and forth at the animal hospital a few...
Hi Vladimir! Thanks for asking! Srinual is up and down....some days he is active and others he just seems to want to hide away and sleep. He eats here and there but definitely not as much as before. I’m wondering if he’s taking his time to recover from his illness and from having been...
It’s been getting slightly cooler here in Thailand but even cooler here is still hot and tropical. There were a few days it was even cooler but that cool spell is over now. I think maybe that’s also affected srinual and made him less active. Even though some days he just lies around, he still...
Hi Ray! Thank you for asking about srinual, he is slowly getting better bit by bit. He’s eating abit more on and off, somedays more than others, and is slightly more active in his area, some days he’s alert and walks around a lot, other days he just rests. We soak him every other day and he just...
thank you so much ray and I really appreciate your thoughts and prayers for srinual. I am just doing my best to help him day by day and feeding him when he wants to eat. He doesn’t eat or drink anything that we put out for him, we are basically hand feeding him now. I’m just thankful he is still...
Hi Ray and I’m sorry for the very late reply. I’ve been worried and stressed about srinual and after spending another week at the vet he is home now and still not eating very much and not active. He walks abit and then goes into a corner. I know I have to be patient and just keep taking the best...
Hi Yvonne and thank you for your reply. Yes we definitely hv to keep soaking him daily when he gets home. His urates were unfortunately sandy and didn’t look creamy, they looked like a lot of sand on the beach, but maybe I used the wrong word, they weren’t in big lumps or anything like that. I...
Hi Vladimir thank you for asking. It was a stressful week as even with all the meds srinual didn’t poop. We finally took him back to the vet on Friday and the vet told us he would keep him for a few days and try giving him water enemas (I’m not sure if I’m using the right words, the vet would...
Yes it’s definitely just as hot as or more than the Philippines. Still no poop though! If the liquid parrafin doesn’t help soon I think we need to go back to the vet again.
Oh thanks for the tip Ray! I’ll try scooping out the seeds first then. He does like to bask in the sun and Thailand has tropical weather all year round so during the day we let him roam the garden and walk walk walk until he kind of stops on his own and decides to nap. And we warm up his bath so...
@chartle I’m still giving him okra and hiding his meds inside so he will eat them. I ask my vet about probiotics but he said he won’t prescribe them but I can buy them and feed them to my tort if I want....I’m not sure why he said in my case he doesn’t think it will make much of a difference? I...
Thanks for asking Ray! My torts name is “srinual” which means “cream colour” in Thai language. When he came to us as a hatchling he was cream colored so my mom named him ( and we thought he was a she so we gave him a most ladylike name!). I finally took him to the doctor yesterday after trying...