lhardin
New Member
Hello everyone! Thank you for the warm welcome Josh! I have visited this forum many times over the past years, and always found it supremely helpful! I'm joining today because I have a situation that is very distressing... My 10 year old female, which I took in as a hatchling rescue ( a friend of mine worked at a petstore & the owner refused delivery of a shipment of juvenile reptiles & left them in a 100+ degree warehouse in the dead of our Texas summer...my friend promptly quit and we tried to save as many babies as she could, my little girl was the only tort to survive) So fast fwd 10 years to a happy & healthy 90 pounder, who until this year's breeding season was fine in her quarter acre yard. She escaped (bulldozed and dug) and was picked up by well meaning neighbors who thought she belonged to someone else. The house they took her to had a male, and by the time out local PD had got us in contact with each other, they had bred. (which is what she was looking for all along, randy girl!) So my situation is this: yesterday morning she repeated broke the door of her outside house which I keep at the appropriate temp for her, to go out into the 30 degree temp to dig her nest (which was perfect, bless her heart) and so I followed the info online & erected a shelter around her to try & keep her warm enough to lay, with heater & heat lamp & long extension cords, & finally had to make the decision to bring her in (no eggs, just small amount of mucous in ghe nest) at almost midnight due to the below freezing temps. I brought her into my house since it will take some time to repair her house's door, and she has been miserable all night, trying to "dig" in the floor & get out the door to go back outside. It is 27 degrees now and falling, with a wind chill that will be in the single digits tonight. Any help or thoughts on what I can do? I'm terribly worried that she'll be eggbound, and she refuses to stay under the heat lamp inside the house, just bulldozes everything to push against the door to get out.
Thanks in advance!
Linda
Thanks in advance!
Linda