I am so exited to go dancing close to home in a large space tonight

The vet spent an hour picking wood chips out of the tortoises butt. An xray made apparent the woodchips ate impacted throughout the entire intestines.

Now we just have to wait and see if the cavity created by the removal if some chips will let the other chips out. If not they are going to have to try tubes which sounds very expensive. Poor Guy.

The reading selection at the vet has a
lot of info about worms.

For hookworms it says,

People most often get infected when they are lying on the ground at the beach and the larvae penetrate the skin. Yes, the larvae can penetrate through a beach blanket

For tapeworms of type Echinococcus multilocularos

Treat these tapeworm infections aggressively in pets, because if humans get infected, approximately half die.

Call me cruel, but if my pet had those I would definately consider wrapping it in a plastic bag and throwing it out.

So the new tortoise has been straining to poop for three days. It's so sad to see it trying so hard. Today I tried to give it a mini tortoise enema with a pop bottle and was able to fish out a bunch of wood chips and a plastic plant material but I could tell he was totally impacted.

The poor guy must have had nothing to eat but the wood chips that lined the cage.

The vet just brought out an entire bowl if wood chips. She is going to xray and see what's left. Luckily he isn't bleeding at all.

So my rapid response urinalysis test strips finally came in. I am fascinated with medical tests. Anyhow these fairly sophisticated test strips show I have no abnormalities in my urine although as the previous Ph strips indicated its slightly acidic.