What is the strangest foreign object ever consumed by a tortoise that you've heard of?
Obviously, this is not an ideal situation and is something to be avoided. But some torts are like goats and have no qualms about eating things they shouldn't, namely anything they can get down their throats. So aside from general interest, perhaps this thread will make some newer tortoise caretakers aware of this problem and help them to take steps to avoid it.
For example, we keep the environment for our torts as clean and free of debris as possible, but we do have one male sulcata named Beasty Boy who is like a goat, and we've found that he's eaten (and passed, thankfully) at least one latex glove. He also likes to eat cardboard and bits of paper towels. We recently had him x-rayed at the vet's office, and were shocked to find that he has a small metal washer inside of him. In light of this, we're now extra careful to avoid leaving anything in his path that he might be tempted to consume.
So, now that I've kicked it off, what's the strangest foreign object that you've heard of a tortoise having consumed?
Obviously, this is not an ideal situation and is something to be avoided. But some torts are like goats and have no qualms about eating things they shouldn't, namely anything they can get down their throats. So aside from general interest, perhaps this thread will make some newer tortoise caretakers aware of this problem and help them to take steps to avoid it.
For example, we keep the environment for our torts as clean and free of debris as possible, but we do have one male sulcata named Beasty Boy who is like a goat, and we've found that he's eaten (and passed, thankfully) at least one latex glove. He also likes to eat cardboard and bits of paper towels. We recently had him x-rayed at the vet's office, and were shocked to find that he has a small metal washer inside of him. In light of this, we're now extra careful to avoid leaving anything in his path that he might be tempted to consume.
So, now that I've kicked it off, what's the strangest foreign object that you've heard of a tortoise having consumed?