Grapes
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Anyone ever gotten a necropsy done on a hatchling and how much did it run you?
Anyone ever gotten a necropsy done on a hatchling and how much did it run you?
Oh wow yeah I don't think I can swing that. I've got a baby on the way lol wife would lose it if I spent that much.
Ask your vet. Perhaps a cursory exam could be done cheaper and a COD might be easily discovered without the full histo-pathological exam. A simple look at the lungs, kidney and GI tract by a trained eye might reveal some important details. They might open him up and find a freshly swallowed black widow or wasp. Anything is possible.
Doesn't hurt to ask for a quote.
That would be worth the cost if a cause was found and you had other tortoises or were thinking of getting another.Apparently it is too late for this case, but to echo Yvonne's post, the last I checked with UC Davis Veterinary school, a reptile necropsy was right about $200 for a private party living in California. That was last year.