dmarshall1991
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Today I got the desert tortoise rescue that I've been anticipating the past two weeks. The poor thing is in worse shape than I expected.. he is 5 years old, hatched in 09. He fits in my palm, has pretty bad pyramiding for a desert tortoise, he was attacked by the previous owners dogs countless times. They would find them chewing on him.. he has a messed up jaw, it looks misplaced or something. His top beak doesn't line up with the bottom. He's also got his back toenails growing around and curling up into his poor little feet. He also was fed a very poor diet of fruit and tortoise pellets made for forest dwelling tortoises. He's going to take some TLC but I have no doubts he will be happy and healthy in no time he will not be hibernated this winter. Here are some photos I took off him. His name is Wrangler.
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