Rosie's Mom
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- Jan 22, 2016
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Hi Everyone!
I'm an unexpected mother of a beautiful 5 year old (ish) redfoot tort. We took her in after her family abandoned her at the beach . Things have been going well, she is happy in her enclosure and gets a lot of time outside of it to really stretch her legs. The other day, I came into the room to find Rosie "playing" with one of my dogs stuffed toys. It looked like she was chewing on the foot. When I went to pull it away from her it turned out she was ingesting the tail. I slowly pulled about 6 inches of soft fabric out of her that she had swallowed. Has anyone heard of a tortoise doing this? Does it indicate a lacking in her diet? I feel like we've provided her with good variety of mostly vegetables and some fruits as well as a calcium supplement. I don't know if we're doing something wrong or if she's just a couple sandwiches shy of a picnic. Any insight would be much appreciated. I'll be calling her vet Monday but was hoping to hear back from some experienced keepers.
I'm an unexpected mother of a beautiful 5 year old (ish) redfoot tort. We took her in after her family abandoned her at the beach . Things have been going well, she is happy in her enclosure and gets a lot of time outside of it to really stretch her legs. The other day, I came into the room to find Rosie "playing" with one of my dogs stuffed toys. It looked like she was chewing on the foot. When I went to pull it away from her it turned out she was ingesting the tail. I slowly pulled about 6 inches of soft fabric out of her that she had swallowed. Has anyone heard of a tortoise doing this? Does it indicate a lacking in her diet? I feel like we've provided her with good variety of mostly vegetables and some fruits as well as a calcium supplement. I don't know if we're doing something wrong or if she's just a couple sandwiches shy of a picnic. Any insight would be much appreciated. I'll be calling her vet Monday but was hoping to hear back from some experienced keepers.