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RE: Help, sick turt...

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Posted by: JEREMYLTOWN at Sun May 28 12:07:30 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by JEREMYLTOWN ]  
   

Without vet treatment and Vitamin A shots or parasite treatment all you are doing is prolonging a slow and painful death.Once a turtle becomes listless and cannot open it's eyes soaking in pedialyte,force feeding by holding turtle upside down and injecting squash baby food(high ion Vitamin A)with an eye dropper,and keeping the temps higher than normal with correct humidity still will not bring the turtle back to a full recovery .It needs vet treatment or it will eventually die.You are just prolonging the inevitable.I found this out myself the hard way.This is why you should not buy from pet stores especially in colder months because they are often wild caught and housed together so that if 1 has an illness it is passed to the other turtles.Symptoms may not show until you have bought the turtle.Please be aware of this.

   

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