I got in from work tonight and my tortoise managed to flip herself over, she has a little scratch on her head, and theres a bit loose skin on her head, like a little graze, any ideas on what to do? I touched it and she didnt seem to mind, should i leave it to fall off?
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Alrite there, Dogs been doing fine but weve noticed alot of dry skin around her neck and back legs, weve just built an enclosure for her how would i go about keeping it humid in there? Its got a heat lamp in, and i hear these russains like to dig? Weve been bathing her everyday but it doesnt...
yeah we live in a 3rd storey apartment so cant take her outside, she has a 2x2 foot wooden box with straw in and her light goes into the top of there, it has a door on aswell, leading out to a table which is about 5x4ft, we filled some with sand and some with straw, got grass and things in ther...
Im Oly, joined a week or two ago as we've just got our first tortoise, a Russain Dwarf. Shes about 6 years old apparantly, and we've called her Dog. Not the best of names i know but its what my 3 yo neice came up with. Pics on the Avatar!
The russain we have, 2 people have had her before us. Theyve let her run about the house, and left the door to her enclosure open, which she hardly ever used. I followed some steps from a site reccomended on here and built and enclosure, but she doesnt seem very happy in there, even though we...
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Plastic tote you mean box? Weve got her in a cardboard one with some old clothes she can get into along with some newspaper and her food and her water, just for tonight like i say.
The tortoise weve just got doesnt seem to settle at night unless its on my or my girlfriends knee. Is this healthy? Also any recommendations on where to keep her overnight? As im not able to build an enclosure for a couple of days? Bearing in mind i live in newcastle, england in a 3rd story...
Thanks mate.
Yeah, i had a look on that site alot of useful stuff on there, same with this one.
Just got a bit confused there seems to be alot of conflicting information on these. Shes currently got the run of the small bedroom, with an upturned box full of newspaper shavings, our worry at...
well apart from dogs lol
Weve just got this from my girlfriends gran (too old to take care of it) and im jus looking for a bit info on keeping it. temp food enclosure bathing health hibernation etc, as im a complete beginner when it comes to these!
Im building an enclosure with some straw...