Recent content by kibog

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...also, thank you all for your constant support and patience and help. I know it's weird, my family thinks it is, but my husband and I love Larry so much. As mentioned he has been through so much, we have grown and learned a lot together. I always want to do the right thing for him but I'm no...

Oh okay! :) Thank you! I did end up giving him pain meds yesterday when it first happened.....I just didn't want him suffering. Today he did well, he really enjoyed the soak....probably felt good or else he just knew it would help :). I keep a pretty close eye on him. So I will continue to soak...

Awwww :( Ok, I will leave it, poor Larry. Thank you. Yes, Larry does get calcium from a cuttle bone he occasionally chomps on. Poor guy, lost his nail from a gait disturbance.

Well, day 2....soaking of the poor little foot that lost the nail. I see a sharp pointy part sticking out from where the nail jaggedly broke off.....leave it or trim it, or maybe round it off?

OH yeah!! Larry had a sort of 'tooth' infection that was hurting him to chew and swallow. It caused part of his jaw to fall off! That scared me BIG TIME!!! But vet said its made up of keratin like our finger nails and would grow back and it has. Larry came to us very sick, though I didn't know...

I think it was slowly bending with pressure over time due to his altered gait.....he hurt his front left leg last month and now has limited range of motion in it. We glued sliders under his shell kind of under the 'arm pit' of his bad leg like the vet suggested. He was climbing rocks and getting...

Hi All, I just found my guy Larry outside and his nail on the concrete! It came off his right front leg and there was minimal bleeding. I immediately soaked him in warm water and then put triple antibiotic cream on his fleshy sore were the nail had come off and put some gauze over it. I...

hi all. I just took my desert tortoise, Larry, to the vet because part of his outer jaw was coming off. The vet said there was healthy keratin underneath it but it looked like an infection had started. With some antibiotics and time he should be good to go. She took blood to check his liver, I...

Hi! I am around 9 lbs! =)

Just takin a minute from my hibernation to say "Hello!" Nice to meet you! My name is Larry and my SUPER awesome parents are Kylee & Lou =) lol :tort:

Joyous living the quiet tortoise life =)

Tortoises are WAY smarter than I ever thought! Ours has learned to literally knock on the sliding glass door after he was done eating grass and wanted a "carrot dessert". He would walk up to the door, and knock the door with his leg. Then he would wait, pause, and just try so hard to look...

Hi everyone! Our little Larry just went into brumation the end of October. He didn't come out, that I know of, for 4 weeks until we had a rain. He was outside on his little porch just sitting in the rain!!! He was only out about 20 minutes then went back to his burrow to sleep. I gather...

lol he wanted to, and he would have, but we stretched it out over the week. We rarely give him carrots, and I didn't want him to get sick....I mean, it's like my husband & I with chocolate cake -we both will eat it all and then spend the next day totally sick. lol So we gave Larry a break =)...