How do veterinary surgeons operate on turtles and tortoises? Where do they make the incisions?
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I had a friend who was a veterinary surgeon student. She found a large frog with a mangled leg: she thought some large bird, like a hawk, had gotten hold of it and dropped it. She didn’t want to leave it as it was, but thought it would be tricky to help.
She basically put it in a jar with a small amount of alcohol (probably mixed with water, but I don’t remember). The frog absorbed the alcohol through its skin and went to sleep. She amputated the mangled leg, kept it for a while to heal, then let it go into the wild. She figured she had given it the best chance she could.
I know OP’s question was about turtles, but I figured anyone interested in surgery on a reptile might be interested in an amphibian too!
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