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Thank you for your reply. Everything else is normal she walks fine and does not slide but i think not for long until her legs are injured permanently. I will build a enclosure with good soil as fast as possible seeking advice from other threads in future. I will also focus on diet giving best of...

Thank you for replying. Unfortunately she has always roamed the floors. She was brought when i was 7 and had that bad diet always. My parents thinks animals are tough and can withstand any given conditions can survive on eating rocks can roam on floors and they think that vegetables are a feast...

As you can see in the picture the uppermost bulges are seem to be rotting or is it normal. It was not there 2,3 years ago. She is 10 years old. There is also unusual lump seen on the shell from backside. She mostly eats ladyfinger, Okra beans, Tomatoes, green leaves(very few)...

I am from jaipur rajasthan and i also have a 10 year old female star rescued from a farm

Actually i am from Rajasthan, India which is basically a semi arid dry region which now on summers is 45 C average daily and the tortoise is native to this place(also illegal to keep). so i faked the address but now iam going to jail.

Thank you for your beautiful reply. All of you are very very supportive i never thought there will be a whole community of people who are expert tortoise keepers. We will definately keep her and i have already started researching how to make her life better in our home with improvements in diet...

We will keep her but still there will always be a weight on my heart that she could have lived a better life if she could have learned to survive in the wild. She can have kids i don,t know where to find her a suitable partner and i am excited to know how will she react when seeing another...

not in the wild but somewhere she can get enough exposure to learn a few things to survive like in a zoo

Then i will give her to a good sanctuary Thanks for your suggestion what we have done surely is a crime. Then i will give her to a good sanctuary Thanks for your advice but can she survive even in a sanctuary without us

Hello everyone I have got a Indian Star Tortoise named Vasu (female) which my Father brought home from a farm when I was a 7 years old and when the tortoise was few months old. It,s been 10 years and Vasu is with us in our home. Earlier I was Ignorant but now I am concerned about Vasu,s future...