It's a Shellfie!

[StuMac]

Sorry for the poor title..the newspaper did it! A Sulcata in Florida swallowed a turtle shaped charm from a necklace. They found it during an X-ray to explain why it didn't seem itself. They are treating it with antibiotics and enemas. Damn!!

 

[stojanovski92113]

Oh man poor tortoise!!! I wonder if the owner lets the tortoise have free roaming time/space to roam the house and the tortoise got that?!

 

[wellington]

That was on my local news yesterday. I that it was a hoot that it swallowed a turtle pendant. What's the odds of that right.

 

[StuMac]

Oh man poor tortoise!!! I wonder if the owner lets the tortoise have free roaming time/space to roam the house and the tortoise got that?!

That's what I thought. If that's what happened it again reinforces the need for ample, safe space for them to roam. I sometimes let Slash out to wander, but I always vacuum first as a precaution. And I never let him out of my sight.

 

[AmRoKo]

Poor little tortie is gonna have the squirties! D:

 

[bouaboua]

I saw this on the 6 O'clock news too. LOL!!

 

[Clawem]

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/10/...e-pendant/20985446/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058

 

[Ida]

Oh my goodness....that's crazy.

 

[slowtone]

Bit of a worry, I have a friend who has a female tort that seems to eat anything, snails slugs included but my two males seem to stick to the normal food.

 

[Iochroma]

Found this amusing story over a a science site:
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-x-ray-sick-tortoise-swallowed-turtle.html

 

[Iochroma]

Aw! Just saw it was reported earlier:
http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/its-a-shellfie.104789/