dog has got hold of my torts please help - Page 2

fluffythetort · 06-06-2008, 07:29 PM

im so scared i love my torts

fluffythetort · 06-06-2008, 07:29 PM

no ive asked my friends not around we have as best as poss

**egyptiandan64** · 06-06-2008, 07:31 PM

Just keep him clean, dry and warm until you can get to the vets.

Keeping him on newspaper will help with keeping the wound clean.

Danny

70ridgeway · 06-06-2008, 07:32 PM

have you phoned the vet he will give you the best advise before you can get there

fluffythetort · 06-06-2008, 07:35 PM

no not yet still trying to find the other, would it have been poss for dog to have eaten her?

sandy · 06-06-2008, 07:40 PM

You need to get to a vet before you find the other tortoise, otherwise the one with damage
could get worse.
Even savlon on the wounds will help stop bacteria getting in, if you have not got anything
like betadine or the like.

Madhouse · 06-06-2008, 07:40 PM

I'm not as experienced as most people on here but I would have thought that if the dog had attacked the other tortoise there would be some visible evidence love. Try to stay calm - get Fluffy onto some newspaper and kept warm and ring the vets for advice meanwhile. You need to get on your hands and knees in teh garden and do a fingertip search for the missing tortoise, quite literally looking at the garden from the tortoises point of view. Do you have a friendly neighbour or family member who you could call to help you out at all????

Madhouse · 06-06-2008, 07:48 PM

Sorry just to say take loads more notice of Sandy than me - she knows what she's on about, so vets first then - good luck

fluffythetort · 06-06-2008, 07:51 PM

they were in the house locked in the front room and the dog got in all the doors upstairs were shut so the only place would be downstairs and weve looked everywhere the vets are shut

70ridgeway · 06-06-2008, 07:55 PM

havent you got an emergency vet

06-06-2008, 07:29 PM	#11
fluffythetort Member Incubating Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: lancashire Posts: 183	im so scared i love my torts __________________

06-06-2008, 07:29 PM	#12
fluffythetort Member Incubating Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: lancashire Posts: 183	no ive asked my friends not around we have as best as poss __________________

06-06-2008, 07:31 PM	#13
egyptiandan64 Super Moderator Adult Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: USA Posts: 14,171	Just keep him clean, dry and warm until you can get to the vets. Keeping him on newspaper will help with keeping the wound clean. Danny __________________

06-06-2008, 07:35 PM	#15
fluffythetort Member Incubating Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: lancashire Posts: 183	no not yet still trying to find the other, would it have been poss for dog to have eaten her? __________________

06-06-2008, 07:40 PM	#16
sandy Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Kent UK Posts: 12,146	You need to get to a vet before you find the other tortoise, otherwise the one with damage could get worse. Even savlon on the wounds will help stop bacteria getting in, if you have not got anything like betadine or the like. __________________ < > 60+, keeping ibera, graeca and box turtles \0/ /_\ http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/tortoisefriends

06-06-2008, 07:32 PM	#14
70ridgeway Senior Member Adult Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: walsall Posts: 2,345	have you phoned the vet he will give you the best advise before you can get there

06-06-2008, 07:40 PM	#17
Madhouse Senior Member Sub Adult Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Cornwall Posts: 1,020	I'm not as experienced as most people on here but I would have thought that if the dog had attacked the other tortoise there would be some visible evidence love. Try to stay calm - get Fluffy onto some newspaper and kept warm and ring the vets for advice meanwhile. You need to get on your hands and knees in teh garden and do a fingertip search for the missing tortoise, quite literally looking at the garden from the tortoises point of view. Do you have a friendly neighbour or family member who you could call to help you out at all???? __________________ Steph - Wife to an ever patient hubby, Mum to four children, 2 dogs, cat, 3 newts, numerous fish, an eel, 3 dwarf hamsters, my 2 baby torts Mickey & Theo (Med. spur thighs) and Mr Grumpyboots Harries (Adult male Horsfield)

06-06-2008, 07:48 PM	#18
Madhouse Senior Member Sub Adult Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Cornwall Posts: 1,020	Sorry just to say take loads more notice of Sandy than me - she knows what she's on about, so vets first then - good luck __________________ Steph - Wife to an ever patient hubby, Mum to four children, 2 dogs, cat, 3 newts, numerous fish, an eel, 3 dwarf hamsters, my 2 baby torts Mickey & Theo (Med. spur thighs) and Mr Grumpyboots Harries (Adult male Horsfield)

06-06-2008, 07:51 PM	#19
fluffythetort Member Incubating Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: lancashire Posts: 183	they were in the house locked in the front room and the dog got in all the doors upstairs were shut so the only place would be downstairs and weve looked everywhere the vets are shut __________________

06-06-2008, 07:55 PM	#20
70ridgeway Senior Member Adult Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: walsall Posts: 2,345	havent you got an emergency vet

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