So about two weeks ago Kooper swallowed a sewing needle. Yep. A whole sewing needle. I freaked out and started sobbing immediately, I thought he was gonna die right then and there. I tried to grab the needle before he swallowed it but he went right in his shell and covered himself with his arms. I ran him right to my mom and told her what happened and she said we needed to cushion the needle before it hurt him. So we fed him two whole pieces of bread(which he loved) My mom is an X-ray technician so we took him to her work and got him some X-rays. It was definitely a needle I looked up a couple pictures of sulcata anatomy and it looked like the needle was already passed his stomach. So we took that as a good thing sense he was acting completely normal. He even ran all over the doctors office and made a bunch of friends. We made him a vet appointment and when we went, the doctor was absalutley horrible. He was tossing Kooper around like he was a football, hanging him upside down, flipping him all over. He pulled Koopers head all the wait out of his shell and pried his mouth open it looked like he was choking him. My mom made him stop and put him down multiple times and asking him to be gentler, seeing as there was a sharp metal needle inside of him. Then the doctor told us the only way the needle would come out was by sawing a square into his shell and doing an "exploratory surgery" on him. And then screw the shell peice back on. And then he proceeded to tell us hes never done a surgery before. Then we asked for him to do an X-ray and he told us it was unnessisary to know where the needle was.
Ok.
So we decided to wait for him to pass it on his own. He was acting completely normal, hyper even. For almost a week we dug through poop after poop, looking for the needle with no luck. We took him back to my moms office and did some more xrays and found that he had also eaten two rocks. why Kooper? I feed him so much why does he need to do this?
So, we waited some more and dug through more poop.
So finally after almost two weeks, we found them! The needle and the rocks in the same poop I put them in a baggy and put them in my little scrap book. Its weird, but I was worried my baby wasn't going to make it so I get to keep them.
So please don't get you're tortoise sawed open if they eat something, that sounds horrible. Kooper's very happy and I'm pretty sure he had no idea what he'd done. He's only five and hes already such a handful. And I also have another hatchling. what am I going to do when they're full grown???
Ok.
So we decided to wait for him to pass it on his own. He was acting completely normal, hyper even. For almost a week we dug through poop after poop, looking for the needle with no luck. We took him back to my moms office and did some more xrays and found that he had also eaten two rocks. why Kooper? I feed him so much why does he need to do this?
So, we waited some more and dug through more poop.
So finally after almost two weeks, we found them! The needle and the rocks in the same poop I put them in a baggy and put them in my little scrap book. Its weird, but I was worried my baby wasn't going to make it so I get to keep them.
So please don't get you're tortoise sawed open if they eat something, that sounds horrible. Kooper's very happy and I'm pretty sure he had no idea what he'd done. He's only five and hes already such a handful. And I also have another hatchling. what am I going to do when they're full grown???
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