He had a piece of shell dangling & it was the shape of a tortilla chip so I named him Chip. This is the new one who won't be hibernating any time soon. It'll take at least 2 years for him to heal.
Poor Chip, I can tell a dog did this to him because he has teeth marks on his carapace. Unbelievably he's not been bleeding from anywhere, if he had been I would've done things differently.
Friday night two of my lab animal students who both work for the same vet brought him to me. Their vet isn't a herp vet, my herp vet isn't in until Monday so because there's no bleeding we've been piecing him together since yesterday morning. I have the Mader book for a guide, we've done this before, I've helped my vet do this in the past too, I am a registered veterinary technician so my vet often tells me to just do it myself anyway.. we just had to do this ourselves because we didn't want to lose him to stress or have him start bleeding.
Tomorrow he'll see the vet for antibiotics & follow up. He has no parasites, that's a plus & he's very active as if nothing is wrong. I don't think he has any pain because there's no cuts, no bleeding wounds he's just broken. I'll get more photos when all the epoxy finishes setting.
Why do these things always happen on weekends?
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PHRatz
