Tortoise bath

[QUOTjeffb, post: 1095706, member: 60304"]tortoises sweat from their eyes, they have no other place to emit sweat from[/QUOTE]
This is not a correct statement. Soaking a tort is not going to harm the tortoise. As they age it gets a bit trickier but if you offer water in their yard and offer up wet type foods during heat stressed times the tort will work it out.

jeffb said:

tortoises sweat from their eyes, they have no other place to emit sweat from

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If a tortoise is very hot, especially the sulcatas and RF tortoises, they shed tears to help cool their heads.

Charlie's too big to give a bath but he loves to walk through the sprinklers! Unfortunately, now in California we are only allowed to water in the wee hours when he is usually sleeping. Sometimes he gets up in the middle of the night though. Sometimes if I put out a water bowl, he'll dunk his entire head. I made him a mud puddle the other day but he was only interested in drinking, not soaking.

I used to try to keep the sprinkler water out of his burrow; now I realize that it was probably good for him all along, as long as it didn't make him too cold.