I live in central florida and found this poor tortoise! It breaks my heart to see what happened to his shell!! Any advice or tips??
Hi everyone,
Thank you all so much for the information. Sometimes it can be hard to have a caring and loving heart for animals...
I emailed our local exotic veterinarian. Someone by the name of Pat got back to me and gave me a few places to try. I called FWC and the woman who answered told me that since it's a native tortoise and was found in the wild, to leave it alone and let nature take its course. Which tbh made me really upset...
But if that's the way it is, not sure what else I can do ? but let nature take its course, like she said.
Hesitant on calling anywhere else for it may be the same answer.
So in the picture I posted, towards the left alllll the way in the back, there's a fence. He has himself set up behind the fence which unfortunately says "no trespassing."That's pretty brutal. There's no way that this happened by any 'natural' means. It looks like someone hit it with a hammer or threw a big rock at it. You'd think that if it got run over the break would be less localized.
You might try the wildlife alert number and see what they say.
That's pretty much what CROW said...no intervention neededIt's hard to tell from the pics if a piece of carapace has been bashed down in....OR if there is new growth coming in under an old injury and subsequent bone deterioration (no intervention required...it will continue to heal from the inside-up)...
@Yvonne G ?
It's hard to tell from the pics if a piece of carapace has been bashed down in....OR if there is new growth coming in under an old injury and subsequent bone deterioration (no intervention required...it will continue to heal from the inside-up)...
@Yvonne G ?
That's pretty much what CROW said...no intervention needed