Tortoise Forum

Oh. That's sad. I didn't know her in person but I believe she was a great snake. Any clues why this has happened?

@Alex and the Redfoot vet said even though the results were inconclusive, that there was bone and puss present, meaning it likely was something problematic. Because of its location, there was little to no margin to be able to remove it all, meaning the likelihood of it coming back was pretty high…

…she already wasn’t on top form so we really didn’t want to put her through an operation, we were advised to monitor her, if the lump stayed the same(which it did) and she was eating drinking etc, then she was best left be…

…however unfortunately she took a pretty rapid decline over the last few weeks, two more feeds came up, which we admittedly feel guilty for even trying now because of the damage the regurgitation causes..