Shutterbug
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Hey guys! It's been a long time since I've posted. Olive is doing great and growing steady.
We had an accident today (less then 4 hours ago) and I am extremely worried.
It's +28 degrees here today, and beautiful so I put Olive outside to enjoy the outdoors and graze a little before winter. I'm in Canada, so once it hits, she is inside till summer.
It's quite windy today, and I guess a piece of Styrofoam take out box got blown into her enclosure from the highway and she ate part of it.
I am extremely worried. Should I rush her in immediately to the vets? I know sometimes vets can make things worse with tortoises, but if that's best that's what I will do! Any foods I can give her to help her pass the chunks? More soaks/longer soaks? What should I watch for? Increase temperatures?
She is soaked daily for 45 minutes. It's extremely dry and hot this year here.
Her diet consists of chopped grass, field greens mix, rosé greens mix, variety of veggies, weeds as I can get them, and a rotation between soaked alfalfa hay cubes and Timothy hay chopped. 2x a week I give a generous slice of cucumber to help with hydration since it is so dry.
She is just under 1lb and 2 years old as of August 10th
We had an accident today (less then 4 hours ago) and I am extremely worried.
It's +28 degrees here today, and beautiful so I put Olive outside to enjoy the outdoors and graze a little before winter. I'm in Canada, so once it hits, she is inside till summer.
It's quite windy today, and I guess a piece of Styrofoam take out box got blown into her enclosure from the highway and she ate part of it.
I am extremely worried. Should I rush her in immediately to the vets? I know sometimes vets can make things worse with tortoises, but if that's best that's what I will do! Any foods I can give her to help her pass the chunks? More soaks/longer soaks? What should I watch for? Increase temperatures?
She is soaked daily for 45 minutes. It's extremely dry and hot this year here.
Her diet consists of chopped grass, field greens mix, rosé greens mix, variety of veggies, weeds as I can get them, and a rotation between soaked alfalfa hay cubes and Timothy hay chopped. 2x a week I give a generous slice of cucumber to help with hydration since it is so dry.
She is just under 1lb and 2 years old as of August 10th