My 15 year old star, who has been dealing with a severe shell injury(got her front 1/4th of the shell chipped off with visible tissue as well as on the bottom 1/4th) over the past year, I medicated her appropriately and applied a zinc oxide-betadine tincture on her wounds over the last year, she...
My Indian Star is being very difficult.She refuses to eat or drink absolutely anything, she might just take a bite or two of a cucumber but that's it.
The only thing she actively tries eating is Tomatoes, which I only ever feed to her when I want her to gulp down any medication which is...
As I went to feed my tortoise today in the morning, I noticed that it had reinjured itself on an old year old wound, basically she got bitten by a rat and the immediate layer of the shell above her head was effectively chewn off.It appears this happened as she tried to find deeper cover from the...
Hey guys,
So in my locale I am one of the few people to have rescued a star tortoise and to have safely bred it so long in the best possible conditions, Recently one of my acquittances spotted one in their garden and have been looking after it since, while they are trustworthy people who take...
Hey all, I have a rescue Star Tortoise for the past 9 years with me,I take great care of it and make sure she gets enough exercise and food,the only problem is she sometimes keeps trying to get into more and more tight corners in her enclosure(which has some bricks and cinder blocks at one side...