28-11-2008, 12:37 PM | #1 |
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**please help***(urgent!)
My baby tortoise Carolina, since three days ago is having trouble breathing as it seems... She really opens her mouth and takes out her neck as far as she can and sometimes she does a squeaky sound.... I can't go to the vet, he is two hours away from me and I am tight on the money now.... I put Carolina in a big hamster cage with fresh newspaper, a small blanket and shelter outside in the veranda where there is sun... I had problems with respiratory with some other tortoises before but my vet told me how to treat it and it worked with the ones which had respiratort problem. I am doing the treatment with Carolina and she doesn't squeak as much as she did but I think I started it late I don't know what to do please help I don't want her to die....
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28-11-2008, 03:21 PM | #2 |
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Start by making a humid box. Its a tuppaware box with a small hole cut in the side.. put the lid on and fill it with steam from the kettle. then take the kettle away and put the tort in the box with the lid on and the hole covered so essentially she is in a "steam room". this will help her loosen any particles of debris in her respiratory system. What treatment have you been giving her. She probably needs to get to a vet as soon as you can
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28-11-2008, 03:40 PM | #3 |
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dandelion do hope your baby tort will be ok pammy
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28-11-2008, 03:42 PM | #4 |
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poorly baby tortise
dandelion hope your baby tortise is going to be ok x pammy
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when she has her mouth open can you see anything obstructing her breathing? If she is that distressed she may have swallowed something like her bedding.
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Cant offer much help, but good luck and hope your tort feels better soon
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how did you get on? X
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It would be a help to others to know
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im sorry she is unwell. How is she now? Any improvement???
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