maggie3fan said:Poor Patches, he went thru all that and lived, and then packed in a box to move up here and lived, and jiggled around in the moving truck for 800 miles leaving California and lived, and after being here for a few months he died. (didn't see that coming didja???)
I'm not a scientist, or a doctor, but MY OPINION is that turtles and tortoises who suffer a really big injury such as Patches did, keep an under-lying infection going on way after the antibiotics have been stopped, until eventually that infection grows and grows and kills the animal. Usually no outward signs anything is wrong. My suggestion to anyone who has a turtle or tortoise who suffers a really big injury is to go through the whole antibiotic regime like the vet tells you, then after a lay off of a week or two, start it up again for another period of time. (I think that's what happened to Mildred too, Maggie)
Yvonne