RogerC
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Our 90 pound African Sulcata suddenly can't support his weight with his back legs. We believe he's about 10-15 years old. He's always been very active, climbing all around our 1 acre yard every day. We're in Phoenix Arizona.
For the last two weeks he only pulls himself out of his burrow to eat the food I leave in front of it, then goes back in. He seems to be unusually hungry too, very aggressively coming at me looking for food.
We feed him a diet of hay (I think I bought Timothy the last time... whatever it was he's been eating on this bale for about 6 months with no problem). About every 3-4 days we give him a head of romaine lettuce.
Normally, when walking he lifts his shell entirely off the ground and takes forward steps with all four legs, keeping his shell up off the ground the entire time. Now he lifts himself fine with his two front legs, but when he tries to take a step with his back legs, he lifts his weight up in the back, then drops it back down hard while he's pulling himself forward with his front legs. He does this with every step. His shell hits the ground in the back only with each movement forward.
Any thoughts on what might be going on? We would sure hate to loose our Leo.
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