Good for you for saving a mud from fire ants. Although fire ants are in our region we are very lucky that they aren't anywhere around our house...yet.
I hope they never are. I've heard all sorts of horror stories about what they can do. They need to die!

Chip was brought to me at the end of Oct. 2005, if this hadn't happened to him he would've been underground for the winter in another week. The story I got is that a cat rescuer found him in her backyard where she has 3 or 4 large dogs. The woman took him to her vet and that's a vet who doesn't treat turtles. His whole plastron was broken & part of it was missing. One piece was dangling off of him, it looked like a tortilla chip.. that's how he got the name Chip.
I know 2 people who work for the vet who doesn't treat reptiles so they called me & asked if I'd take him. It was a Friday night so we cleaned him up & started to try to put him back together the next day but he began to smell really bad, he was infected. Monday he saw my herp vet & got bandaged up for a week while he took antibiotics, then on Halloween he went in the hospital & was put back together. He was wild but now he's a spoiled brat.
Shell E was dog chewed but not nearly as bad off as Chip. Shell E took 2 years to heal, Chip's vet thinks it will likely take 3 years if not more for him to heal.
If you want to see all the photos of Chip you can click the link at the bottom.
The CB western painted is the only turtle or tortoise I have that I paid money for & brought home on purpose. The rest just happened.
They all saw that sucker tattoo on my forehead. lol
I love it when they make it. It's a challenge for me to rehab them, I like the challenge.
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