my spray bottle filled with water and my other one filled with rely+on virkon. Ive stupidly sprayed my tortoise, and essentially all of the substrate. not a heavy spray, but enough to worry me. my tort has been bathed and i have rinsed her eyes thoroughly so there's no chemicals in them. my...
Today I was walking my tortoises in their outdoor enclosure when one of them ate something toxic. He ingested about an inch of young English Ivy leaf and half an inch of Creeping Buttercup stem. Pls help, I don’t know what to do.
I turned around for two seconds to weed a plant and found my 3-year-old Russian tortoise eating miracle gro potting mix. He took between one and three bites of dirt and may or may not have eaten perlite pellet(s).
I’m really worried but it doesn’t have any sort of insecticide or weed killer—...
Is there anything that could cause a tortoise to die in 48 hours?
Do tortoises have common sense, or do they eat sweet wrappers, plastics etc.
Please share poisoning stories or ingestion related deaths.