i got a call early this morning from a girl i work with... a lady brought a female box turtle that she saw her neighbors dog attacking up to the store... (ill never figure out why people bring injured animals to a petstore instead of a vet)..

i went and picked her up about an hour ago.. she seems to be ok, most of the wounds were superficial with the exception of a missing eye... it looks like the dog got her by the face, a cut under her chin and the eye completely gone.. the eye socket looks clean, no puss just clear fluid leaking out.. my vet friend kelly happened to be at the store when i picked her up.. she took a look at her and is going to give me something to put on the eye tomorrow...

shes a huge female, the biggest wild one ive seen, and has lots of scars from old injuries and some shell disfiguration that looks like a previous encounter with a dog.. the lady who dropped her off said that thier neighborhood was expanding and that they had recently obliterated the last remaining forest area for new houses... my question is, after she has recovered will she be able to survive in the wild without an eye? and also, if her home was just destroyed can she be placed at another site? i have my doubts about the answers to these... i imagine that losing an eye will severely lower her chances of survival especially if the territory that she is familiar with is gone.... i dont really need another turtle, but ill keep her if that is her best chance of surviving.. shes going back to the vet tomorrow for a full checkup to make sure there is nothing serious that we missed.. i need advice on this please..
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my pets: clown treefrogs, reed frogs, big eyed treefrogs, tiger leg monkey frogs, gray treefrogs, milk frogs, cuban treefrogs, whites tree frog, green treefrogs, squirrel treefrogs, blue webbed gliding treefrog, red eye treefrogs, chameleon treefrogs?, mossy treefrogs, dusky salamanders, tiger salamander, box turtles, mud turtle, map turtle, yellowbelly slider, florida softshell, two saltwater tanks, five cats, two chinchillas, and a boyfriend.

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