ColleenT
Well-Known Member
I have been searching for a female Three-toed boxie for months online. every time I think i have a lead, it's gone. I finally found a guy who has a lot of animals and he told me he had a female 3 toed. I was thrilled, as you can imagine. Well she arrived this morning and not only is she not a three toed, when she opened up in her soak, i discovered she was missing a leg and had bone showing thru. I freaked out, and i checked the bag she was inside. sure enough, there was dried up leg that looked like beef jerky. I got her to the nearest reptile vet who happens to be a specialist in Box turtles. The turtle needs her leg properly amputated and then she needs to heal. Cost will be probably just over $500. The person i got her from has a 5 star rating, and everyone says he's a great guy to do business with. So i am not going to give out his name, he said he wants to make this right. So now i have a Gulf coast female, which i did not want, and a $500 vet bill, which i also did not want. I am trying to embrace having a new turtle, even tho she is not what i wanted. she can probably live in the outdoor enclosure with the three toeds when she is healed. she will not be able to bury any eggs, but she will still be able to hibernate. I did not want hybrid boxies, anyway. So i am trying to make lemonade out of lemons and thinking i will call her ILENE. She is a pretty gulf coast, and even the vet thought she was sweet and easy to handle for a turtle in distress. They gave her morphine right away and she will be there for a few days.