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ok im a new member and i need help right now so please help me. today it was sunny so i let one of my turtles out for some sun. we got a fence for him so it was alright. i went inside for a while and when i returned my little kid was not in his yard i looked and i found him a dog got in and got my little baby he's not in good shape. he's got a piece of shell missin(bottom left side of the top). and he has scratches on and holes and like i said it anit good.i found some very useful info here but i still need help. we are going to take him to the vet but my parents can take me on wednesday and today is monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have been putting on neosporin and and doing what it said here but after the application of neosporin do i wash it off or just put him back in the water??? I think he is ganna be good cuz i gave him something to eat and he ate. please help me. one more thing should i keep him in the water his wounds are fresh but thre not bleeding or out the water???? right now crush is in water so please help me.

I've never had to deal with an injured turtle so I can't provide much more info than is already on this site. Someone will step in soon to help with that.

I do have ONE suggestion and that's find another way to the vet! You should NOT let him wait until wednesday!

I'm moving this to Urgent Care so it'll get more attention. Good luck.

thanx and my mom knows a vet and ganna make a call to see if he knows any vets that know about turtles. so he will see a vet today because i wont stop till i found one.

Vivi, look (or have your mom look) at the sticky at the top of this forum for locating a herp vet near you--you turtle needs one right now.

Read the info here: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~rednine/firsaid.htm for info on emergency treatment of wounds to see what you can do in the meantime, but take your turtle to a herp vet.

Good luck. Let me know what happens.

Ok good and bad news. good news is that we found a vet (thank you marisa for pointing out where to look for a vet). i called as many as i can and most of them were closed already. The bad news is that his appointment is on wednesday but is in the morning. i talked to the doc and told him what i have been putting on him and he said that its was good but to watch out that no flies get on him cuz it can cause infection or egg laying . he said that he needed one now but that the emergencie hospital was too far. so he told me to wait and to keep on doing what i was doing. so thanx to all that helped me and i well tell you the results. oh and if you got any more tips for us then please tell me.

Sorry about your turtle, I hope he gets better from his wounds, here is a link to first aid for bites:
http://www.turtlecare.net/bites.htm

Sorry I got here late

sorry about the turtle keep him warm and if hes eating feed him, hopefully the puncture wounds are not really deep enuff to have hit vital organs, cant wait to hear what the vet says, do all you can and wait nature has a gr8 way of healing,keep him safe till the doctor tells u what else to do. if he's not bleeding and will still eat this is a good thing.

we are going to the vet tomorrow morning and i just cant wait for him to check out crush. i wont be able to sleep. all of you guys thanks alot for helping me and crush. i guess tomorrow i'll tell you guys what happens.

ok we have came back from the vet and crush looks fine. sure he's a little sleepy cuz they put him alsleep for they can fix him up. ok the doc said that he should be fine and wow what a relief . what they did was gave him some injectables Anes;Telazol and of course fixed his shell. they patched up his wounds and then i think he said put some acrlyic???(cant spell) on top of the patches. he said that it might have to stay on forever . but it is possible that it will heal completly. oh and i have to inject him with Baytril. but everything is good now. except the injection part . but its best for him. will thanx again for all the help.

i would like to put some pics of him for you guys to see him but i dont know how.

Use the img function at the top of the reply box, without the * of course.

[img]url of picture[*/img]

I'd like to see what the little guy looks like.

well i would but like i said i dont know how and i got confused with the img url and all that so yea sorry.

you have to upload them. use photobucket. under the image, once loaded, will have IMG then an address. copy that, type-in here- [img]ADDRESS[/img]

Vivi, if you want to email them to me I'll post them for you.

im_styler@hotmail.com