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    Indian Star Tortoise swallowed a few Screws

    Today we took her for X-ray. There is slight relief now. There are only 3 items left. I am not sure what that round object is on the left side. I think daily good diet like (romaine lettuce, aloe vera, pumpkin, etc ), soaking, along with Good exercise played a key role in removing those. Most...
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    Indian Star Tortoise swallowed a few Screws

    She's eating and pooping well though. Everyday we are taking her out in the Garden, where she is freely roaming and tries to poop while walking. I am feeding her every day with Lettuce, aloe vera, and pumpkin. Also every alternate day I put slight drops of liquid paraffin in lettuce and feed...
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    Indian Star Tortoise swallowed a few Screws

    Most of the time I do keep her inside the enclosure, but she always tries to climb on the sides of the enclosure trying to come out. At times only I remove her from the enclosure, and constantly keep her on watch. My wife always keeps the house tidy whenever our tortoise is roaming. But I think...
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    Indian Star Tortoise swallowed a few Screws

    My Tortoise was wandering around the house, and she came across some screws which were lying around and she ate around 5 screws and 3 bolts, 8 in total. I was repairing something and opened a case left the screws beside me, and I went to pick up my parcel came back after 15mins and when I was...
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    Object found in Indian Star Tortoise Body !!

    Today she started eating on it's own as before. she seems fine now. I have already started preparing enclosure for her. I think she gonna love it. I am taking extreme care of her since the incident. The link shared by @Tom is really helpful. Thank you everyone for all your support.
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    Object found in Indian Star Tortoise Body !!

    Couple of days before she started walking silently and today she ate some grass on its own. It was great feeling :). We are thinking about again going for X-ray after 1 more week. let's see how the result turns up.
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    Object found in Indian Star Tortoise Body !!

    The Tortoise is 6yrs old with shell size 13.5x11cm. My small brother went outside after finishing his food, the tortoise climb on his plate and ate it. When I saw her eating I removed her from the plate and kept her aside. This has happened lot of times before also when no one is around she...
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    Object found in Indian Star Tortoise Body !!

    One week before my Indian star tortoise accidentally consumed some grains of boiled rice. The next day she started vomiting and started gasping to breath air by opening his mouth, she stopped eating so on and fall lethargic. But there were no Nasal Discharge. But, we thought it would be...
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