I rescued a turtle today.

[Charney]

vit A deficiency would not do that alone. Though it is a very common problem. If you wipe the eye with a warm gauze does most of it wipe away or stay attached to her head? if it is truly an eye infection you would need medicated drops. I honestly don't think LFS would have that OTC but maybe. Otherwise you will need a vet to get hold of some

 

[krichardson]

vit A deficiency would not do that alone. Though it is a very common problem. If you wipe the eye with a warm gauze does most of it wipe away or stay attached to her head? if it is truly an eye infection you would need medicated drops. I honestly don't think LFS would have that OTC but maybe. Otherwise you will need a vet to get hold of some

I wonder if it is even treatable at this point as the previous owner claimed that it has been that way for a few years.She also said that she thought it was a cataract and actually tried to pop the swelling....I did not venture to ask her how or with what..

 

[tomojsg]

She had the nerve to tell me that she had another turtle that wound up dying after both of it's eyes got infected and swelled up.I told her that she needs to stick with playing with her cell phone and leave the pets animals alone.

now report her for real lol.

 

[tomojsg]

it is treatable just takes time and patients. longest it took of of the rescued res to heal
for me was around 5 months. takes time but will heal.

 

[krichardson]

now report her for real lol.

I would hate for the gal to receive death threats from the Humane Society lol.

 

[krichardson]

it is treatable just takes time and patients. longest it took of of the rescued res to heal
for me was around 5 months. takes time but will heal.

That is good to know.I'm not the biggest RES fan....snappers and DBTs are more my tastes but I'm really starting to like the little guy.

 

[tomojsg]

I would hate for the gal to receive death threats from the Humane Society lol.

ill report her to peta! lol they would go berserk on her lol...

 

[krichardson]

ill report her to peta! lol they would go berserk on her lol...

They might toss a bucket of fake blood on her.

 

[tomojsg]

That is good to know.I'm not the biggest RES fan....snappers and DBTs are more my tastes but I'm really starting to like the little guy.

ya not a big fan of res's myself minus the morphs lol waiting for a new clutch of dbt
to hatch from a breeder so i can get some more but unfortunately i gotta wait till around
spring time or so.

 

[tomojsg]

They might toss a bucket of fake blood on her.

who knows what peta would do. theyre a bunch of kookoos lol