Sooooo, I am wondering if I should be feeling nervous that nobody chose to respond to my post about Petrie?
I did in fact take her to the vet today. He turned out to have an amazing knowledge of tortoises and is raising some redfoots of his own. He gave me some interesting insights and is 'tight' with several herpy people..like the gent that runs the Cincinnati? reptile portion of the zoo.
Aaany way it turned out that Petrie is very dehydrated probably due to some kind of infection. I brought in a stool sample that I discovered today and what I thought was some puss in it turned out to be some intestinal lining..not cool. He did give her a fourteen day antibiotic and gave me some tips of how to entice her into eating. He also gave me some syringes in order to force feed her??? I attempted some baby food when we got home but frankly have no clue of how to get her to open her mouth. Arrggg Any suggestions of how to do this safely would be really really appreciated.
Carley
I did in fact take her to the vet today. He turned out to have an amazing knowledge of tortoises and is raising some redfoots of his own. He gave me some interesting insights and is 'tight' with several herpy people..like the gent that runs the Cincinnati? reptile portion of the zoo.
Aaany way it turned out that Petrie is very dehydrated probably due to some kind of infection. I brought in a stool sample that I discovered today and what I thought was some puss in it turned out to be some intestinal lining..not cool. He did give her a fourteen day antibiotic and gave me some tips of how to entice her into eating. He also gave me some syringes in order to force feed her??? I attempted some baby food when we got home but frankly have no clue of how to get her to open her mouth. Arrggg Any suggestions of how to do this safely would be really really appreciated.
Carley