Our Hermanns tortoise will be 23 next week, and he is still small enough to be carried by my husband. We take him out every day - he doesn't object to rides in the car - and he really enjoys looking at different places and meeting people. He is fascinated looking at the movement of waves and long grass in the wind. He loves to look at flowers -in fact, he is interested in all sorts of things. We can tell this by the way he stretches his head right out, and the intensity of his gaze. He is perfectly calm. The one thing we never do is put him on the ground if there are any dogs around. You might think us very weird, but he has met hundreds of people, who are amazed at the way he looks at them with such interest.
Tortoises do not like change. They do best when left in their familiar area and not moved around too much. I am a proponent of having two enclosures for smaller tortoises and for people in climates that are not great for tortoises. One indoors and one outdoors. All the tortoises I have ever done this with are a bit stressed their first few times in the new outdoor enclosure, but become familiar with it and get comfortable quickly, because they have been there before and it is the same each time. I don't think they'd settle in very well if they went into a new and unfamiliar enclosure each time they went outside.
about the size of the palm of my hand.
Yep my Russian is the same way almost always poops everywhere when picked up unless I put him in something like the small tub I soak him in before moving him
Can you post pictures I wanna see the little fella
See link below.
tortoiseforum.org
