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Old photo of me doing surgery on a boxxy that came in with a severely cracked shell of a box turtle, I have realized i do not have any decent photos of box turtles in my photo inventory so i had to include me in one lol, This surgery took about 2 hours, Mr. Box (the name i gave the turtle), did not enjoy his time but scurried off slowly after release :p
For those of you that are wondering what i am doing in the picture, i am tightening in the last of the wires so the cracked off piece of the shell will stay nice and snug :3
Morale of this story, watch out for turtles on the road during rainy or humid and wet nights and or day. thx! ~Skye
For those of you that are wondering what i am doing in the picture, i am tightening in the last of the wires so the cracked off piece of the shell will stay nice and snug :3
Morale of this story, watch out for turtles on the road during rainy or humid and wet nights and or day. thx! ~Skye
Category Photography / Human
Species Turtle / Tortoise
Size 996 x 651px
File Size 268.6 kB
yay!! Yeah i wanted to post something about avoiding turtles and other little critters while driving on the road but i didnt want to have to post a journal because i figured it would be too boring :p so i incorporated a surgery picture into it XD more dramatic, dun dun duuuun! but yes thx for approving of it :D
lol It's an awesome feeling watching them (ever so slowly) walk back into the wild but sometimes its just sad that alot of the turtles shells are too cracked beyond repair :( not to mention the surgeries take the minimum of 2 hours to complete lol, but to me its very awesome :)
My dad and I found a box turtle just like him and it had a cracked shell too but you can tell that crack was there for many years. So what we did was take some wire mesh like a very thin sheet of it and cut it out and laid it over the crack and we put epoxy glue over it nice and smooth. The piece of the shell wasn't moving honestly it looked like it fused
itself back over the years. For the most part.
(No the whole shell was not covered it was a little section like what you are doing but the crack went right down the middle almost x.x)
So we put it up on a shampoo bottle so it couldn't move x3. It looked like it was swimming in mid air x3. We let it go down by the pond ^^
itself back over the years. For the most part.
(No the whole shell was not covered it was a little section like what you are doing but the crack went right down the middle almost x.x)
So we put it up on a shampoo bottle so it couldn't move x3. It looked like it was swimming in mid air x3. We let it go down by the pond ^^
awe lol that is an awesome story and it sounds like you did an amazing job!! ^_^ yeah if the crack is not amazingly huge we just use mesh to cover it and some epoxy mixture and smear it over it and let him/her just sorta sit around (drugged out of their mind) for a day or two then let them go on their merry way. if the crack is extremely bad (such as organs poking out of from behind its skeleton (their shell) then we have to put some major pins and drill tons of holes and yeah...i hate those kinds of surgeries (the ones that are 5 hours long) : / but anyways it sounds like you did an amazing job and *hugs*
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