Pagbili ng Pagong, Pagpili ng Malusog na Pagong

Don’t run straight to the pet store to buy a turtle, but rather look for abandoned turtles (rejected by their owners) on the Internet. And you will be cheaper and help people! Some turtles are given away or sold with fully equipped terrariums. Red-eared turtles are given in huge numbers, both young and adults, sometimes Central Asian, swamp and trionics are given. Exotic turtles are almost never given away for nothing, but are sold, sometimes for quite a low price.

Lubos naming inirerekumenda ang pagbili ng mga pagong sa kalye mula sa mga kamay, sa mga pamilihan ng zoo, hulihin ang mga ito sa kalikasan at dalhin sila sa bahay. Binabawasan mo ang populasyon ng pagong at tinutulungan silang mawala sa planetang Earth! Ang mga pagong mula sa mga kamay at mula sa merkado ng zoo ay madalas na ipinuslit at may sakit.

You should not buy a sick turtle out of pity if you yourself do not know how to treat turtles, and in your city there are no good herpetologists and veterinary pharmacies with rare drugs.

Choosing a place of purchase

Lupon ng mga deklarasyon, forum. You can take or buy a turtle for free on our forum on the Bulletin Board, where aquatic and land turtles are given to kind and caring hands. The turtles are housed by the Turtle Relief Team (HRC), as well as many visitors and visitors to the site from different cities. Also, turtles are often given away on city forums and on bulletin boards: the most popular platform is Avito.ru. Find out in advance the city of the seller, the condition and age of the turtle, how long and how exactly it was kept earlier. Exotic turtles can be found on the myreptile.ru and reptile.ru forums.

Tindahan ng alagang hayop. If you decide to buy a turtle in a pet store, then choose a pet store with a good reptile department, where, in addition to turtles, lizards, snakes, and spiders will also be sold. In such pet stores, animals are usually kept much better than in ordinary small ones, where turtles are rarely sold and not only do they not know how to keep them at all, but they also hang on the ears of gullible buyers of noodles that the turtle does not grow and you need to buy everything for it rather big amount. The first impression of the animals that you are offered should be formed already on the threshold of the store. If animals are shown in crowded, dirty and smelly cages, they are unlikely to be healthy. Conversely, stores that spend time and effort creating the right environment for their pets and displaying them in a way that impresses the customer are much more likely to offer you healthy animals in excellent condition. A pet store worker should be proud of his work and love animals, and not just chase profit. If you have the slightest doubt, or if the store and its employees did not make a good impression on you, look elsewhere for turtles. If the turtles are kept in unsuitable conditions, talk to the sellers and leave a negative review in the Pet Store’s Book of Complaints and Suggestions. They should be in every store.

At reptile shows. Reptile sales exhibitions are regularly held in various cities and countries, where you can buy turtles from both private breeders and firms. Usually, all animals sold have veterinary certificates and documents of legal origin. Usually there are a lot of beautiful species of turtles at such exhibitions, but there are problems with transporting reptiles across the border.

Ligaw o lahi?

Mas mabuting bumili ng hayop na ipinanganak sa pagkabihag kaysa mahuli sa ligaw. Ang mga pagong mula sa kalikasan ay madalas na nahawaan ng mga bulate, iba pang mga parasito, at napapailalim sa matinding stress. Ang mga hayop na dinala mula sa kalikasan ay mas mura kaysa sa mga breed, kaya palaging bigyang-pansin ang mga titik sa mga ad sa mga dayuhang site: CB (captive bred) - mga hayop na nakuha mula sa captive breeding at WC (wild caught) - wild caught sa kalikasan. Kung sinasadya mong bumili ng WC na hayop, magandang ideya na dalhin ito sa beterinaryo (reptile specialist) at ipasuri ito, dahil ang mga hayop na ito ay kadalasang nagdadala ng mga parasito tulad ng bulate at mite.

Pagsusuri sa kalusugan

When choosing a turtle, check for external damage to the skin, limbs and shell (scratches, blood, strange spots). Then see if there is any discharge from the nose, if the eyes open. In addition (for freshwater) it is necessary to check whether the turtle can dive in the water, as otherwise it may have pneumonia. The turtle should not sniff, blow bubbles, or salivate strangely. The turtle must be active and move briskly on a horizontal surface. Treating a turtle often exceeds the cost of the animal itself, so don’t buy a turtle unless you’re sure you can provide for it. A healthy turtle is active and has no discharge from the nose and eyes. Eyes open, not swollen, breathes through nose rather than mouth, reacts to people. She should swim well (if water) and walk on land without falling on her side, without limping. Her shell should be even and firm. The skin and shell of the tortoise must not show signs of damage or detachment (especially in aquatic turtles).

Mga dokumento

Kapag bumibili ng pagong sa isang tindahan, sa pinakamababa, dapat mong kunin at itago ang resibo para sa hayop. Ito ay magiging kapaki-pakinabang kung magpasya kang dalhin ang pagong sa ibang bansa o kahit isang lungsod sa pamamagitan ng eroplano. Basahin ang tungkol sa mga kinakailangang dokumento kapag nagbebenta ng mga pagong sa isang hiwalay na artikulo. Kung nabili ka ng may sakit na hayop, may karapatan kang humingi ng refund. Maaaring mabawi ang mga gastos sa paggamot mula sa nagbebenta.

Kailan ang pinakamahusay na oras upang makakuha ng pagong? Inirerekomenda na kumuha ng mga pagong mula sa huli ng tagsibol hanggang sa unang bahagi ng taglagas. Sa taglamig, maaaring ibenta ang mga may sakit na hayop, o maaari silang sipon habang dinadala sa isang bagong tahanan. Ang mga pagong ay maaaring kunin mula sa mga pinagkakatiwalaang tao sa anumang oras ng taon, at sa taglamig, mas malamang na ang mga pagong ay hindi ipuslit mula sa kalikasan, ngunit pinalaki sa mga bukid o sa bahay.

Mas maganda bang kumuha sa mga breeder o sa nursery kaysa sa pet store o sa palengke? If the turtle is not on the CITES list, then most likely it is bred in captivity in a nursery and is sold without documents, because. they are simply not needed. Transportation of such a turtle from country to country is quite legal. If the turtle is on the CITES list of endangered species, then you can buy a bred turtle (but without documents) from turtle breeders, which can be found on turtle and reptile forums. Usually everyone knows these breeders, they have Diaries on the forums, where they describe turtle parents, their clutches and post photos of babies. You can buy a bred or officially caught turtle with documents in Moscow at some pet stores, for example, Papa Carlo (according to them they have CITES documents), or abroad at pet stores or at annual reptile sales exhibitions in European cities (for example, exhibition in the German city of Hamm, which takes place 2 times a year). Redworts are bred on farms in Europe and Asia on a gigantic scale, Central Asians are mainly smuggled into Central Asia, and small exotics can be either bred or caught in nature.

Pagkatapos bumili ng pagong Mas mainam na magdala ng pagong mula sa isang tindahan ng alagang hayop sa mainit-init na panahon - sa isang saradong kahon na may papel at mga butas para sa bentilasyon, sa malamig na panahon - sa isang kahon na may heating pad, o pinindot sa katawan, dahil ang pagong ay hindi naglalabas. ang init mismo at ang pagbabalot nito ng basahan ay hindi makakatulong sa kanya. Ang mga trionics ay dapat dalhin sa tubig upang ang balat sa shell ay hindi matuyo o nakabalot sa isang basang tela. Kinakailangang ihanda nang maaga ang lahat ng angkop na kondisyon para sa pagong (temperatura, liwanag, bentilasyon). Kung bumili ka ng pagong bilang karagdagan sa mga mayroon ka, pagkatapos ay i-quarantine muna ang bagong dating at panoorin siya ng 1-2 buwan. Kung ang lahat ay maayos sa pagong, maaari kang umupo kasama ang iba pang mga pagong. Kung ang bagong dating at ang mga lumang-timer ay magkasalungat, pagkatapos ay kinakailangan na paupoin silang muli. Ang ilang mga agresibong species (trionics, caiman, vulture turtles) ay dapat palaging itago nang hiwalay. Maaaring kumagat ng mga babae o iba pang lalaki sa isang terrarium ang mga lalaking nasa hustong gulang na seksuwal na pagong sa Central Asian.

Disinfecting the turtle after purchase is not necessary, because you will still keep it in quarantine. But after communicating with the turtle, you must always wash your hands. It is also recommended to bathe the acquired turtle in a bath with warm water. If the turtle is a naturalist, then it is necessary to treat it for protozoa and helminths. It is also better to take blood biochemistry once a year to check the health of the reptile.

Why can’t you buy turtles in pet stores and bird markets?

Needless to say, the steppe tortoise, if it continues to be bagged out of its native habitat at such a rate, will very soon acquire the status of not even “Endangered”, but simply “Endangered Species”, and we will be able to read about them only in books. Buying one individual of this species, you deliberately exclude the right to procreate, because. she will not have offspring, which means that several living organisms will never receive the right to exist. In place of the one you bought, five more will be brought next year. If we talk at all about such a dubious act as buying turtles in pet stores, then it makes sense to thoroughly study this issue, organize the maximum comfortable conditions and try to help turtles breed at home.

Ngunit may isa pang bahagi ng isyu, ito ay mas malapit sa mamimili. Ang mga pagong ay naihatid nang hindi tama (o sa halip, kahit na sa isang brutal na paraan), dahil kung saan kalahati ang namamatay sa daan, at ang iba, na nakaligtas, ay dinadala sa mga tindahan ng alagang hayop, kung saan ang ilang bahagi, naman, ay namamatay mula sa kakulangan ng kahit ang pinakamababang kondisyon ng pagkulong at mga sugat na nakuha nila sa aking paglalakbay. Bilang isang patakaran, ito ay pneumonia, herpes (herpesvirosis, stomatitis) at iba pa. Kung mabubuhay sila, malamang na may mga problema sila tulad ng rhinitis, worm, dry o wet shell dermatitis, beriberi.

Ang ganitong mga pagong ay madalas na namamatay sa loob ng isa hanggang tatlong linggo (ito ang panahon ng pagpapapisa ng itlog ng mga pinaka-mapanganib na sakit). Maraming mga may-ari ang hindi alam kung saan liliko, kaya pumunta sila sa mga unang beterinaryo na kanilang nadatnan - nakikipagtulungan sila sa mga hayop na mainit ang dugo, kaya hindi nila nagawang pagalingin ang reptilya. Kadalasan ay nagbibigay sila ng mga maling reseta, at bilang isang resulta, parami nang parami ang mga kaso ng pagkamatay ng pagong mula sa paggamot. Ang ilang mga may-ari ay walang ginagawa at iniisip na ang mga namamagang mata, uhog, hindi aktibo, at pagtanggi sa pagkain ay normal para sa pagong. Ang mga nag-iisip pa rin na hindi ito ang pamantayan ay bumaling sa forum at pagkatapos, kung maaari, sa mga mahusay na espesyalista sa reptile. Ang catch ay na mayroon pa ring napakaliit na pagkakataon na gamutin ang mga pagong. At kailangan mong magkaroon ng kamalayan dito.

Below is a far from complete list of topics from the Memorial section of the forum, each of which describes the story of terrestrial turtles bought at a pet store / at the Bird Market (there are also many stories about water turtles), which could not be saved. And these (I emphasize) are only those people who turned to the forum at all, but how many more are those whose turtles died, but we don’t know about it? This will add weight to our words about not buying turtles. Following the link, you can read the history of the purchase and the long unpromising treatment of each individual.