Mamaj323
New Member
Hi everyone!
We lost our 80+ year old desert tortoise this winter and had decided we would welcome a new tortoise eventually when the time was right.
Well, my husband came across one on a local FB group. The second he showed me the picture I knew we had to try and help.
Things I know:
They had it for 2 years. And they dont think it's over 3.
They fed it only fruit.
They kept it in a cage with a bearded dragon that bit off all claws/toes on front legs. It bit off its tail. And it looks like a chunk of leg was taken at some point.
It's missing most of the scales on back legs. And there's chunks of scales missing on one front leg.
Its eyelids are pale and super puffy.
It's never had UVB/UVA light. No monitoring of temp or humidity. Though they did have a heat lamp.
It's shell feels thin and it has very little muscle tone
We've put it in a shallow warm soak to start and my husband is setting up a hospital tub with some substrate from it's future outdoor enclosure and keeping the pasture grass still rooted in it.
Any suggestions on how we can get this baby on the right track?
We lost our 80+ year old desert tortoise this winter and had decided we would welcome a new tortoise eventually when the time was right.
Well, my husband came across one on a local FB group. The second he showed me the picture I knew we had to try and help.
Things I know:
They had it for 2 years. And they dont think it's over 3.
They fed it only fruit.
They kept it in a cage with a bearded dragon that bit off all claws/toes on front legs. It bit off its tail. And it looks like a chunk of leg was taken at some point.
It's missing most of the scales on back legs. And there's chunks of scales missing on one front leg.
Its eyelids are pale and super puffy.
It's never had UVB/UVA light. No monitoring of temp or humidity. Though they did have a heat lamp.
It's shell feels thin and it has very little muscle tone
We've put it in a shallow warm soak to start and my husband is setting up a hospital tub with some substrate from it's future outdoor enclosure and keeping the pasture grass still rooted in it.
Any suggestions on how we can get this baby on the right track?