Hi, this is my first post. I’m new to owning a tortoise. I bought a 7 month old Horsefield about 3 weeks ago and he is called Turbo. The first few days after bringing Turbo home they slept a lot and didn’t eat much. After about 4 days though Turbo was noticeably different. Awake and very active for much longer throughout the day and very keen on eating. Turbo is really friendly and climbs onto my hand when I am sorting out the habitat and takes food from my hands.
on Sunday morning Turbo suffered a prolapsed rectum and was treated by the vet within a few hours. As there were no signs of any issues with him defecating or urinating the vet thought that it could be due to worms/parasites and treated Turbo accordingly. Turbo has defecated normally since the prolapse was fixed so it appears to be holding.
however, since returning from the vets, Turbo has gone back to being very sleepy and yesterday ate very little at all and hid almost the whole day.
This morning Turbo woke up at about 8am (which is pretty normal) ventured out of the hide and did eat quite a bit (some from my hand) but by 9:30am was back asleep (albeit under the basking light rather than back in the hide) and is still asleep (it’s lunchtime).
my gut is telling me that he was just stressed over his vet visit and the prolapse and that he will relax over the next few days and go back to normal (that was the vets view) but is there anything I can do for Turbo to help?
on Sunday morning Turbo suffered a prolapsed rectum and was treated by the vet within a few hours. As there were no signs of any issues with him defecating or urinating the vet thought that it could be due to worms/parasites and treated Turbo accordingly. Turbo has defecated normally since the prolapse was fixed so it appears to be holding.
however, since returning from the vets, Turbo has gone back to being very sleepy and yesterday ate very little at all and hid almost the whole day.
This morning Turbo woke up at about 8am (which is pretty normal) ventured out of the hide and did eat quite a bit (some from my hand) but by 9:30am was back asleep (albeit under the basking light rather than back in the hide) and is still asleep (it’s lunchtime).
my gut is telling me that he was just stressed over his vet visit and the prolapse and that he will relax over the next few days and go back to normal (that was the vets view) but is there anything I can do for Turbo to help?