We adopted Arizona(or California? I honestly cannot remember at the moment) desert tortoise about 3-4 years ago now from my brother in laws parents. They had it since 1980 when it wandered into their yard. The exact age is unknown.
Basically, the last two weeks or so it has gone down hill FAST. The only change is we encountered a male desert tortoise wandering in a busy street and we picked it up and took it home until we can find its owners. So far no luck. Anyways, the issues started to happen about a week after the new one came home. I don't know if its related, but it was shortly after they were introduced and living in the same yard(I told my mom we needed to keep them separated but she didn't listen). Anyways, about a week after they lived in the same yard, my old seemed to slow down. About 5 days after I found her foaming/mucus surrounding her mouth. Rinsed her off to get rid of it and took her to the vet. He couldn't find anything wrong but we were given some take home shots to treat the symptom as it wasn't exhibiting it when we took her in(I will get the name of the medicine later when I can find the paper work).
Anyways, about a day or so after this event she has more or less stopped moving. She can barely walk. Her front legs just slide out from under her and her back legs aren't doing much. She has a makeshift turtle house at the moment as the new one stole the main one as its own. And she isn't moving much away from it. It hasn't moved out of the 3x3 area in days and will not move after she goes under a specific plant she seems to like and isn't going into her new house at night
Im afraid she caught something and is dying. Im going to try to find a real reptile vet as I don't believe mine really knows what he is doing when it comes to reptiles.
Any ideas as whats going on?
Basically, the last two weeks or so it has gone down hill FAST. The only change is we encountered a male desert tortoise wandering in a busy street and we picked it up and took it home until we can find its owners. So far no luck. Anyways, the issues started to happen about a week after the new one came home. I don't know if its related, but it was shortly after they were introduced and living in the same yard(I told my mom we needed to keep them separated but she didn't listen). Anyways, about a week after they lived in the same yard, my old seemed to slow down. About 5 days after I found her foaming/mucus surrounding her mouth. Rinsed her off to get rid of it and took her to the vet. He couldn't find anything wrong but we were given some take home shots to treat the symptom as it wasn't exhibiting it when we took her in(I will get the name of the medicine later when I can find the paper work).
Anyways, about a day or so after this event she has more or less stopped moving. She can barely walk. Her front legs just slide out from under her and her back legs aren't doing much. She has a makeshift turtle house at the moment as the new one stole the main one as its own. And she isn't moving much away from it. It hasn't moved out of the 3x3 area in days and will not move after she goes under a specific plant she seems to like and isn't going into her new house at night
Im afraid she caught something and is dying. Im going to try to find a real reptile vet as I don't believe mine really knows what he is doing when it comes to reptiles.
Any ideas as whats going on?