Sea You at Fetch Long Beach
|Articles|April 1, 2012

Idea Exchange: How to make a turtle "open wide"

A solution for opening turtles' and tortoises' mouths for medication or tube feeding.

We save the plastic nail cleaners found in surgical scrub brush packages and use them to help open turtles' and tortoises' mouths when we need to medicate or tube-feed them.

Dr. Michelle Ravich

Mount Kisco, N.Y.


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