Hi, I'm sorry I didn't provide too much details in the previous post. 😅 I understand your worries about the whole process, as I also feel anxious every time I send my Clydie to the fridge. It's never easy.
When I do it, I would keep the fridge at 4 degree Celsius. Before you send him to the...
If you're interested in how I do the hibernation, you can read my replies to a recent post here: https://tortoiseforum.org/threads/hermann-hibernation.201541/?utm_source=threadloom&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ed40&utm_content=iss655
The first 3 years Clydie was in our normal everyday fridge. 😆 To cut down the light disturbance and to prevent jail break if she is awake, we put her in two layers of shoe boxes, with breathing holes on the side of course, with crumpled paper towel balls as "substrate" to bury her. She seemed...
Oh! Another hibernation post. :)
In short, I have a 6-year-old Russian tortoise and I had her since she was a hatchling. She lived in a closed enclosure with the same temp and same environment for the first 5 years. I tried everything to not let her sleep in the second year, but nothing worked...
My Clydie, a Russian tortoises, is 6 years old now. She used to live indoor full-time until this year that we have a backyard.
She always had the same temperature, same closed enclosure for the past few years, but she does slow down every year since she was one-year-old. We would take her out...
I think turtles are a lot less demanding compared to tortoises in terms of enclosure size, environmental conditions (lighting, humidity, different zones of temperature...) and food. If you pick a small turtle, like a 3-striprd mud turtle, you will be able to move around with it much easier.
I have to say, Clydie, my Russian tortoise is slowing down these days also. She had the backyard enclosure this summer and endless weeds to eat in the daytime, and came back home to her indoor enclosure at night. However, just as in the previous years, she slows down after 7,8 months of active...
In my opinion, it really depends on the dogs also. My previous dog, Harry, was a cocker spaniel who has the most gentle soul. He naturally doesn't like to chew anything. He is gentle with any small animal. I saw him once from far away that he sniffed at something and then just left. I went up...