injured tortoise

I adopted my sulcata tortoise a couple weeks ago. His previous family was unable to keep him any longer. Oogway is doing great, eating, pooping everything fine. But his shell has old damage that I'd like to discuss. I was told that he has old thermal burns. And that part of his history is...

We have a gopher tortoise and she was attacked by our dog this evening. She has several puncture wounds and was bleeding and bubbling out of one of them. Which to me sounds like a punctured lung, but I don't know anything. It's Not bubbling anymore but when we cleaned her wounds with the saline...

Hi everyone, I’m new to the forum. I joined because my wife just came upon a baby tortoise in the garden. The tortoise is either injured or has a deformed left front foot. He or she was under a plant, partially dug in on the right side (the side with good feet and claws). Active and alert...

Hi! This is Torti! I got her a few months ago :) I just noticed this large ball on her neck and I’ve washed it to keep it clean but is this something that could go away or is it an abscess that needs draining? She loves to dig and shes been digging more than usual, and I did notice when she...

Hi this is my first time on the site, and I am extremely worried about my Red Footed Tortoise. She has had these bumps on her neck or skin area which are squishy and seem to be getting bigger. She has also been scratched by my other tortoise in the enclosure today which has never happened even...

We have, some type of, California Desert Tortoise that has recently been injured. For some time, not sure how long, he was stuck with a lead/rope around his front arm that was left on a chair in the yard after a dog bath. Somehow the tortoise had managed to get it so tightly wrapped around his...

So woke my tortoise up early and found she had been chewed by something. ??devastated, she’s 10 years old. Vet kept her a couple of nights then I brought her home to care for her. It’s to the bone on most of the leg, I’m dressing every other day now with cream but I don’t know if it’s healing...

A neighbors dog jumped our fence and I believe it got a hold of our tortoise or possibly she got stuck somewhere at injured herself trying to get out? It looks to be injured a gular horn and some blood on its front legs with scales missing. Do I need to take her somewhere immediately? Will...

Hello I noticed a scab on my Sulcatas neck, I don’t know if he is cut his self on his shell. I am worried it might be internal because there a sought of crater under the scab. Could it be a possible infection. He’s in the vet tomorrow was the earliest I could get.

Hello I have made a post about my grandparent's injured tortoise https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/injured-tortoise.168695/ i have a temporary home for her but i am still looking for someone to permanently keep her. my grandparents and I cannot afford any vet. so i would like to give her to...

(Anyone that contacts me ill give you the full backstory on the tortoise and my grandparents ) Aya: My grandparents got a tortoise (name aya) that they dont know how to take care of and dropped it on me. I cant take care of her heres the situation : Aya got injured. either she fell when...