00:12So this turtle, we'll call her Lindsay, came to us from Galveston Bay. And she had washed in on the
00:21rocks near some fishing site. And when she came in, she was weak and depressed. She was covered
00:29with algae. She was already missing her eye and that looked like an old injury. It was not something
00:35that we even treated. We cleaned it up and saw there was nothing more to do there. So once a
00:41month we weigh and measure the turtle, monitor its skin condition, its shell. There are some diseases
00:46of turtles that show up with bumps and swellings. And so we want to make sure that the turtle's
00:53healthy. We also want to make sure that it's continuing to grow because if it's not growing,
00:57there may be a problem. And I'm kind of proud that today the turtle kind of graduated to a new
01:02scale.
01:03And our old scale only goes up to five kilos. And this time she hit over 7.3. So we're
01:09happy.
01:10Once they've recovered, we don't want to put them out in the cold ocean water. So we wait for the
01:15springtime when the ocean's warm and they have a better chance of survival. I became a veterinarian
01:22because I love animals and I love to see animals in the wild. And I know that I feel a
01:27closer
01:27association with them the closer I am to the living animal. And when I have the opportunity to treat
01:34an animal from the wild and give it an opportunity to give it a second chance, it's like one of
01:40the
01:40greatest experiences of my life. There are some turtles that actually I get goosebumps now thinking
01:45about the release and the fact that I have had a chance to impact this animal's life and it could
01:53be out there for another hundred years.
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