>> Where did the injury happen then.
As I said already, the tortoise has never been un-supervised in the garden as there is no real tortoise pen due to the special British weather. Often, the weather is cooler in summer than in South Africa in winter.
The vets also have been two different ones.
The first behaved very odd. Among other nonsense, they extracted some very small stones from the intestine or stomach and showed them to me with astonishment.
Our tortoise also detoriated completely during their "hospital stay". We decided not to prolong this "hospital stay". When I called them to clarify the bill that was not only wrong but completely weird, they apologised for the bill but I got then someone on the phone who tried to convince me 15 minutes long to bring the tortoise back into their "hospital".
We thought that it would have been possible that those vets two years before applied the hole for some reason and no one noticed it until now.
But in this case there should exist a reason to apply such a hole for a medical reason. Otherwise, it wouldn't make any sense. But is there such a reason?