Other Turtle Discussion :: Egg bound turtle...

[steve]

There should be a segment airing tonight on E-Vet interns (Episode 3) on the Animal Planet station, 7:30 pm EST.

The episode is called "The Road Less Traveled"

I am not 100% sure this is the right episode and I do not know what kind of turtle this is... I do believe it does not have a happy ending.

[Kallistos]

The life of Napoleon, an egg-bound turtle, relies on Dr. Erik Anderson and exotics specialist Kevin Fitzgerald, who must turn to unusual methods to give it the best chance of survival.

It's the correct episode, I'll definetely check it out thanks for the heads up!

(note, I believe the first half is about a paralyzed dog and the 2nd half is on the turtle)

Rated PG

[xsavingsaturdayx]

I just saw the episode...it was so sad ,i hope my turtles end up being boys..

[Kallistos]

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So it's about a 25 year old female Yellow Belly Slider named Napolean. She has 11 well developed (hard) eggs in her that are constricting her organs and take up too much space for her to eat. They give her a drug to help her lay the eggs, but it doesn't work. So they take her into surgery, cut a part of the plastron off and start pulling out eggs and ovaries. The veterinarians sucessfully remove all of the items, but she never comes out of anesthesia.

[DaddySkittles]

AWWWWWW I wish I had the animal planet station

[industrial_girl_2000]

Oh man, I SAW that on Saturday!!! Too bad no one told the vets that the nesting area had to be more than 2 inches deep with soil.....poor turtle kept digging and digging......

It was very sad. I cried when they said the turtle never woke up from the anesthesia.

[steve]

That was a really beautiful turtle too. Those eggs were enormous and some were calcified... I don't know if she could have passed them

[Blue Flamingo]

Ya I dont think that she could have ever passed those eggs even in an perfect situation, they were just too hard. She also probably didnt have the energy because she hadnt eatin for a while.The nesting area looked more than 2 inches deep to me. Plus Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald is an excelent herp vet. I know this because I've been told by many other vets in Colorado, while looking for a vet for my turts, and when I took animal science in school we would always take our herps in to see.