
06/05/2025
Meet our patient of the week!
This is miss Zoi. Zoi is a Sulcata Tortoise. She has a rare shell deformity, causing her shell to grow inwards instead of out, pushing on her internal organs. To try and remedy this, Dr. Cupka has made Zoi a special brace around her shell that we tighten every few weeks to reverse the growth of her shell out.
Zoi has a very big personality and loves to try walking away from us as we’re working on her, so we suspend her in the air with some canned food! She is a very sweet girl, and we are hopeful this procedure will help extend her life span and overall comfort!