Recent content by Elizabeth Patti

Thank you so much for your informative words and kind heart. I live at 11th Avenue and Indian school. So if you're still at the same house we are fairly close. ... =)

so, would you give this tortoise one name or two names? i think this lil guy/girl is adorable..... wonder if they get irritated because one wants to go one way, and the other wants to go the other way. lmao.. just playing ..

here are the pictures i just took of Flower and the inside of her dogloo.. as well as her food i just gave her the heat lamp isnt pointing straight down onto her, but it is warm in there.

where do you purchase your tortoise food at? like the hay, mulberry leaves and Mazuri?? and what is the pricing of them? Thank you

It is dark inside the dogloo, with exception to the red color from the heat light, I will take a closer picture of how high the heat lamp is from her, and how far it is from the top of the dogloo and post it in just a few minutes

Thank you , I feel bad when she looks all depressed when i bring her in, but then outside i feel bad cause its cold. i am in a no win no win situation right now, and i dont want to freeze my poor girl and i dont want to put her in a depression. i am thinking of different items i can use to...

Tom, when you say carapace- are you referring to her shell? sorry, didn't know it had a different name. lol I am using a 75 watt heat lamp bulb, and its approximately 1 foot above her, and the floor temp, I dont know - I put extra dirt in there for her incase she wanted to dig some, but not...

those tiles are 18 by 18 inches, just comparing her to the tile size. she was born oct 2010, and weighs 28 pounds. is that normal size for her ? and how can you tell a tortoises age by their shell? someone said you can but just wondering.

(Original thread: http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/anyone-live-in-the-phoenix-areas.148937/ ) well, today i finished with Flower's housing for outside. Right now I am really short on money so I had to use what we already had here at home. (My job sucks, i have been out of work for a...

my tortoise doesnt go crazy about fabric, now that i have brought her in, i put her down in the livingroom and she always goes to one of the cat towers and will remain there until i physically pick her up to take her outside or just move her so she can eat. Last winter she stayed in the same...

we just have a carport, but we do have a fairly large enclosed arizona room that is built with cinderblock, windows, etc... and its the whole length of the house- where are the substrates you mentioned at? what store? and as far as her burrow, i totally filled it up because it was a good 6 feet...

I was curious if anyone lives in the Phoenix area or other towns close-by? If so, Could you let me know what type of enclosures you have for your Sully's? My Sully is 6 years old and weighs 28 pounds, she is almost the size of an 18 X 18 tile. She has been outside since the spring time and...

thanks for the info, i have been checking them out.. =)

I have a female African Spurred Tortoise, she is approx. 6 years old. Her name is Flower. Over half of our backyard is enclosed for her. I am new to this site and would like some information on outside housing during the winter months in Phoenix. She has dug herself an underground burrow-...

Looking for outside Winter housing ideas for Phoenix AZ