Urgent help please

bevvyh · 20-11-2014, 03:32 PM

I have a horsfield Tortoise.. I bought her when she was six months old... I have had her for four months.. and all has been well... I did lots of research and her temperatures are fine.. she is on a tortoise table.. i have checked the veg and weeds she is getting are safe and it is sprinkled with calcium dust.. she was eating really well up until a couple of weeks ago and she then started to go off her food becoming less active... still pooping ok.. so i wasn't too worried.. today she didn't move at all i went to make sure she was ok and i think she might be Dead.. her head is completely inside her shell and touching her limbs get no response..... I do have a bearded dragon so am a little bit used to keeping reptiles.. but i am distraught!!!.. could she be hibernating so early... how can i be sure she is deceased? what on earth could have killed her?..... I love my reptiles so am just hoping she is asleep but my brain tells me she is too young.. PLEASE HELP!!!... any advice much appreciated!!!!..

A very very sad ..... Bev..

**egyptiandan64** · 20-11-2014, 10:11 PM

Has there been any movement since you posted? You can gently pull on a front leg to see if she pulls back.

Danny

veggie86 · 21-11-2014, 08:49 AM

Any news today? Hope she's ok. I didn't think they could deteriorate that quickly?

Suze65 · 21-11-2014, 01:34 PM

Any news today.

bevvyh · 21-11-2014, 04:30 PM

thanks everyone... unforunately she did die... i think i have paid the price for buying a baby tortoise from a pet shop....I know i was so careful with heating lighting and food....I am unsure if i will get another....

thanks again.

suttysue · 21-11-2014, 07:15 PM

OH NO, the poor thing you must be gutted at the thought of losing her.
Have you got any more news ?
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Pussygalore · 21-11-2014, 07:20 PM

I think like most wild animals they will try to hide being ill untill they die otherwise they would be seen as easy prey for another animal. I had a hatchling die once and although it never was exactley thriving it was fine and eating one minute and a few minutes later dead. Its horrible loosing any animal but having had the tort for such a short while I doubt it was anything the owner did and could even have been hatched harbouring something.

Suze65 · 22-11-2014, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Pussygalore

I think like most wild animals they will try to hide being ill untill they die otherwise they would be seen as easy prey for another animal. I had a hatchling die once and although it never was exactley thriving it was fine and eating one minute and a few minutes later dead. Its horrible loosing any animal but having had the tort for such a short while I doubt it was anything the owner did and could even have been hatched harbouring something.

Agree, it could have been hiding something since you got it, or even hatched with a problem. So sorry.

veggie86 · 22-11-2014, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by bevvyh

thanks everyone... unforunately she did die... i think i have paid the price for buying a baby tortoise from a pet shop....I know i was so careful with heating lighting and food....I am unsure if i will get another....

thanks again.

So sorry hun

Run free little tort x

becciwales · 23-11-2014, 04:52 PM

I'm so sorry. Sending hugs x

20-11-2014, 03:32 PM	#1
bevvyh Junior Member Egg Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 4	Urgent help please I have a horsfield Tortoise.. I bought her when she was six months old... I have had her for four months.. and all has been well... I did lots of research and her temperatures are fine.. she is on a tortoise table.. i have checked the veg and weeds she is getting are safe and it is sprinkled with calcium dust.. she was eating really well up until a couple of weeks ago and she then started to go off her food becoming less active... still pooping ok.. so i wasn't too worried.. today she didn't move at all i went to make sure she was ok and i think she might be Dead.. her head is completely inside her shell and touching her limbs get no response..... I do have a bearded dragon so am a little bit used to keeping reptiles.. but i am distraught!!!.. could she be hibernating so early... how can i be sure she is deceased? what on earth could have killed her?..... I love my reptiles so am just hoping she is asleep but my brain tells me she is too young.. PLEASE HELP!!!... any advice much appreciated!!!!.. A very very sad ..... Bev..

20-11-2014, 10:11 PM	#2
egyptiandan64 Super Moderator Adult Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: USA Posts: 14,171	Has there been any movement since you posted? You can gently pull on a front leg to see if she pulls back. Danny __________________

21-11-2014, 08:49 AM	#3
veggie86 Member Incubating Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: Isle of Wight Posts: 193	Any news today? Hope she's ok. I didn't think they could deteriorate that quickly? __________________ Lora and pack... 1 husband, 5 dogs, 1 cat.....and Iberas Pickles, Poppy and Pip

21-11-2014, 01:34 PM	#4
Suze65 Senior Member Adult Join Date: May 2012 Location: Wiltshire Posts: 6,769	Any news today. __________________ Suze. 3 THB, Sammy, Jemima, & Phoebe 7 Marginated, Tabitha, Ptolome, Tatiana, Noah,Lottey, Lulu & Poppy 1 TGG (Emma) RIP Feb 2012

23-11-2014, 04:52 PM	#10
becciwales Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: South Wales Posts: 3,438	I'm so sorry. Sending hugs x __________________ Becci 1:2:0 Testudo Hermanni Boettgeri - Darwin, Galileo, and Einstein. Archimedes (THB) RIP June, 2018

21-11-2014, 04:30 PM	#5
bevvyh Junior Member Egg Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 4	thanks everyone... unforunately she did die... i think i have paid the price for buying a baby tortoise from a pet shop....I know i was so careful with heating lighting and food....I am unsure if i will get another.... thanks again.

21-11-2014, 07:15 PM	#6
suttysue Senior Member Sub Adult Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: UK / Eng / Yorkshire Posts: 1,483	OH NO, the poor thing you must be gutted at the thought of losing her. Have you got any more news ? ��

21-11-2014, 07:20 PM	#7
Pussygalore Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Cambridge Posts: 6,479	I think like most wild animals they will try to hide being ill untill they die otherwise they would be seen as easy prey for another animal. I had a hatchling die once and although it never was exactley thriving it was fine and eating one minute and a few minutes later dead. Its horrible loosing any animal but having had the tort for such a short while I doubt it was anything the owner did and could even have been hatched harbouring something.

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