Go to a vet that knows tortoises!

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Posted by Esther on May 21, 2001 at 10:11:58:

In Reply to: I have no idea posted by Kyra on May 20, 2001 at 21:37:45:

Take your little guy to a vet who knows tortoises whenever you can. Describe the symptoms, and see what he or she says.

Chanel was at summer camp and this happened. My parents came upon him outside, he had laborious breathing and was opening and closing his mouth like silent hiccups. His nose was bubbling and his eyes looked glazed and not alert. They rushed him to an emergency vet center and thank God the vet on call used to own Sulcatas! She gave him a shot of something in his neck and he started breathing better. To this day, we don't know if he ate something bad, or if he got bit by a bug, or if he knocked his neck against something while he was stomping around outside. I just know that the vet made him able to breathe again.

Ihave also seen this behavior exhibited if they are choking/tangled their neck on something (Angel was in this situation when she tried to spit up the long length of fabric she had eaten, and again another time when she had tangled something around her neck and was choking herself -- luckily, she comes and gets mommy and gets out of these situations, crazy tortoise. . .)

You never know what the cause of these things are, but sometimes the sooner you can go to a vet, the sooner you can figure out what is wrong. Best of luck.

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: Take your little guy to a vet who knows tortoises whenever you can. Describe the symptoms, and see what he or she says. : Chanel was at summer camp and this happened. My parents came upon him outside, he had laborious breathing and was opening and closing his mouth like silent hiccups. His nose was bubbling and his eyes looked glazed and not alert. They rushed him to an emergency vet center and thank God the vet on call used to own Sulcatas! She gave him a shot of something in his neck and he started breathing better. To this day, we don't know if he ate something bad, or if he got bit by a bug, or if he knocked his neck against something while he was stomping around outside. I just know that the vet made him able to breathe again. : Ihave also seen this behavior exhibited if they are choking/tangled their neck on something (Angel was in this situation when she tried to spit up the long length of fabric she had eaten, and again another time when she had tangled something around her neck and was choking herself -- luckily, she comes and gets mommy and gets out of these situations, crazy tortoise. . .) : : You never know what the cause of these things are, but sometimes the sooner you can go to a vet, the sooner you can figure out what is wrong. Best of luck.

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