Urgent Care :: My Turtle keeps openin her mouth HELP URGENT!

[V Lou]

Please email me and I will try to help.

[V Lou]

A thought... your local post office probably allows the public to weigh letters and so has a suitable scale. I'd think they wouldn't mind if you ask to weigh your turtle on it (perhaps with a cloth, so no one feels offended) every 3 days or so. Oh, even more appropriate... place your turtle in a large envelop for clean weighing. Perfect.

[munkly]

i can do tht .... but V Lou .. just today i made her eat few pellets again ... and just after eatin`em keechu looked in pain i dnt knw y or wat caused tht ... she started stickin neck in nd out nd then open her mouth WIDE nd stick neck out as far as she cud ... and she opens her mouth more n more as every day pass by ... and rite now i just saw tiny red dot near her mouth and i cud see blood as if some wound or so ... dnt knw how nd frm where she got tht ... and she dry docked herself since a loong time so just to monitor her ... i picked her up and looked at her plastron and i cud see tht it didnt look tht well as it used to it wasnt the brightest yellow it used to be it looked yellow but seemed as if inside the plastron or under it there is blood clotting :S ... wat does tht mean?

[ami]

hey munkly.. how she doing now? i really dont know about what she has but just wanted to see how she was. hope all is well

[munkly]

hey ami! ... shez much better now thnx to V Lou here he really is helping me alot ... she doesnt open mouth to breathe tht much i took her to a vet and he gave me an antibiotic she has resp infection according to the vet also .... and her skin is also bein limpy .... but its been 5 days now to her treatment wid the antibiotic nd i alrdy see some positive signs ... hopefully keechu will recover shortly! =D

[ami]

Ahhh! that's awesome news..its good to hear she's doing better! =]