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I got so much help here on the tortoise forum back in March and April when our tortoise Crystal, adopted from Petsmart, became very ill 2 weeks after coming home. I just want to tell everyone how well things turned out once his apparent bowel obstruction had cleared!
He has grown a good deal since then -- did some shedding and also a ring of new growth is evident on his shell. He is so much stronger-- when we got him I ignorantly thought it was normal for them to kind of drag themselves around, but now he has strong legs that can lift the weight of his body off the ground when he walks! He used to pass a lot of urates when we first got him and now it's rare to never.
I hate to think of what his life was like at Petsmart and wherever he was before.
Over the summer we were able to take him out in the backyard to roam and graze, supervised, on weekends, although he still eats mainly a variety of tortoise-healthy grocery store greens.
I think now that he's healthier he's less happy with his glass tank (tries to climb out), but I don't know how soon we'll get a different setup because it took a long time to get the temps right in there for the New England winter, and I want to make sure we can keep him healthy for the coming season before I start messing around.
Special heartfelt thanks to
@mikeh, @ascott, @maggie3fan, @Dorrie Siu, @LoutheRussian , @lismar79, @Nolan1992, @Jen Rosell, @Yvonne G, @sibi, @leigti, @marcy4hope,
He has grown a good deal since then -- did some shedding and also a ring of new growth is evident on his shell. He is so much stronger-- when we got him I ignorantly thought it was normal for them to kind of drag themselves around, but now he has strong legs that can lift the weight of his body off the ground when he walks! He used to pass a lot of urates when we first got him and now it's rare to never.
I hate to think of what his life was like at Petsmart and wherever he was before.
Over the summer we were able to take him out in the backyard to roam and graze, supervised, on weekends, although he still eats mainly a variety of tortoise-healthy grocery store greens.
I think now that he's healthier he's less happy with his glass tank (tries to climb out), but I don't know how soon we'll get a different setup because it took a long time to get the temps right in there for the New England winter, and I want to make sure we can keep him healthy for the coming season before I start messing around.
Special heartfelt thanks to
@mikeh
, @ascott, @maggie3fan, @Dorrie Siu, @LoutheRussian , @lismar79, @Nolan1992, @Jen Rosell, @Yvonne G, @sibi, @leigti, @marcy4hope,
