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im not sure if it is a promlem but when my russian goes to deficate the stool(s) come partialy out, dry, and then gets draged around. (it never came all the way out of the "back door" the other russian has had this happen befor but it wass usaly just stuck on something. any ideas on whats the deal.
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0.0.6 Common Mud Turtles
1.1 Russian Tortoises
0.3 Eastern Box Turtles
1.0 Hamsters
3.0 Dogs
2.3 Family

"im not sure if it is a promlem but when my russian goes to deficate the stool(s) come partialy out, dry, and then gets draged around. (it never came all the way out of the "back door" the other russian has had this happen befor but it wass usaly just stuck on something. any ideas on whats the deal."

the answer may be in your pet collection. i suspect that either you're giving your RTs lots of grass/timothy hay (a good thing) and the stool is being dragged around by grass blades, or your torts are consumming dog hair (not a great thing) and that's getting caught in the stool.

matt

they do eat the gass and weeds all day while in their cage, the have timothy hay in their box, i've seen them eat it ocationaly. we do have dogs 3 but there lazy as hell and hardly go outside. about the stool when i tried to clean them the stool was composed of grass , stringy ang green. so this is natural then? and it not some parisite/stomach disorder i have to go to the vet for? thanks
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0.0.6 Common Mud Turtles
1.1 Russian Tortoises
0.3 Eastern Box Turtles
1.0 Hamsters
3.0 Dogs
2.3 Family

My russians eat a lot of grass when outdoors, and it comes out stringy. They do not seem to digest it as thoroughly as my leopards do, but it also seems to do them no harm.