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    4.5 year old leopard tortoise took a fall and is struggling to use back legs.

    Also don’t know if it matters for anything but it’s actually a male, we gave him a female name and thought it was maybe a female when it was very young but now that’s it’s older it’s obviously a male but I had been so used to calling it a female for a while I still slip up sometimes.
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    4.5 year old leopard tortoise took a fall and is struggling to use back legs.

    Thanks for the reply, yes we have been doing warm soaks everyday and things have seemed to be getting marginally better everyday. The emergency vet gave him some pain meds yesterday and sent us home with a weeks worth of meloxicam. the fall was caused by climbing up over an area of the enclosure...
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    4.5 year old leopard tortoise took a fall and is struggling to use back legs.

    Just wanted to add still eating normally and still is active with front legs and head. They said it has a couple deposits inside probably the colon but they didn’t think that was causing any trouble.
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    4.5 year old leopard tortoise took a fall and is struggling to use back legs.

    My 4.5 year old leopard tortoise took a fall and is struggling to use its back legs. I have taken it to an emergency vet who did X-rays and thinks she got hurt but should recover. Obviously we are going to get her into an exotics vet as soon as possible but this isn’t going to happen for a few...
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