Soft tissue surgery including abdominal, thoracic, head and neck, and limb surgeries. Orthopedic including Total Hip Replacement, TPLO, TTA, fracture repair, angular limb deformity repair, joint stabilization procedures, lameness evaluations, medical management of lameness, rehabilitative therapy.
Physical Description. The eastern box turtle is small (4.5 to 6 inches shell width, up to eight inch shell length), land turtle with a high, dome-like upper shell (carapace). Younger box turtles can be distinguished by their flatter carapaces.
The Florida box turtle (Terrapene carolina bauri) shares the three-toed box turtle's inclination to puff out the throat. These box turtles are of small to moderate size, and have shells that are either black or deep brown in color. Florida box turtles make their homes in open forest, marshes and moist wetlands.hree-Toed Box Turtle. The three-toed box turtle (Terrapene carolina tringuis) is one reptile that definitely does a lot of throat puffing. The carapaces for these box turtles are generally somewhere between 4.5 and 5 inches in length. As their names indicate, these little guys usually possess between 3 or 4 back toes.