So I got a call from the vet today and the blood results confirm their suspicions that Es has pre ovulatory follicular stasis and needs to have an ovariectomy.
Es has zero clinical symptoms, other than the fact she thinks she has eggs to lay and keeps digging nests, but I saw the follicles myself on the ultrasound.
I know it’s ridiculous but I’m pissed. Pissed that to my knowledge I’ve done everything right here raising this tortoise, and yet she has a reproductive disease that might be my fault. Apparently the etiology is unknown, but proposed causes are lack of males, or suboptimal husbandry/nutrition.
As she’s never been mated, I’m guilty of the former, but I certainly didn’t think the latter. I know my climate is not suitable for this species, but she is not poorly maintained. It kinda hurts.
Obviously, I’m worried about the surgery, but the vet told me it was ‘routine’ surgery and they’d performed many surgeries for this and other similar things via plastron osteotomy, with positive outcomes. I still don’t feel any better about it though.
@Jodie, I know Scarlett had a plastron osteotomy years ago; how did she recover? Did you lose your mind at the prospect of this or am I just overreacting?
Es has zero clinical symptoms, other than the fact she thinks she has eggs to lay and keeps digging nests, but I saw the follicles myself on the ultrasound.
I know it’s ridiculous but I’m pissed. Pissed that to my knowledge I’ve done everything right here raising this tortoise, and yet she has a reproductive disease that might be my fault. Apparently the etiology is unknown, but proposed causes are lack of males, or suboptimal husbandry/nutrition.
As she’s never been mated, I’m guilty of the former, but I certainly didn’t think the latter. I know my climate is not suitable for this species, but she is not poorly maintained. It kinda hurts.
Obviously, I’m worried about the surgery, but the vet told me it was ‘routine’ surgery and they’d performed many surgeries for this and other similar things via plastron osteotomy, with positive outcomes. I still don’t feel any better about it though.
@Jodie, I know Scarlett had a plastron osteotomy years ago; how did she recover? Did you lose your mind at the prospect of this or am I just overreacting?