06-06-2008, 07:29 PM | #11 |
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im so scared i love my torts
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no ive asked my friends not around we have as best as poss
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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.
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have you phoned the vet he will give you the best advise before you can get there
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06-06-2008, 07:35 PM | #15 |
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no not yet still trying to find the other, would it have been poss for dog to have eaten her?
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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.
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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????
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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
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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
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havent you got an emergency vet
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