Petey G
New Member
Hi all, I live in Palm Springs, CA and recently adopted 2 sisters, 5-6 yo (The Cantaloupe Sisters). Re-homed actually from The Living Desert in Palm Desert. They have a large, secure outdoor area with a couple of burrows, ample shade and sun, a small shallow pool that is refilled daily with the irrigation, and a 2x6ā strip of irrigated Bermuda sod (leeched of fertilizers, etc.).
They appear content and like to be hand fed but seem to like the sweet stuff (grapes and melon, but also Romaine lettuce and cabbage). They forage for dry stuff and munch on random thinks in their habitat and I have planted recommended plants from the nursery. There are mature cacti, aloe, weeds, grasses, etc., in their habitat.
My question is that I leave for much of the summer, back every few weeks. I can have friends, neighbors check on them, but how can I make sure that they are getting what they need nutritionally if Iām not around too much to manage?
Thank you in advance! Loving these girls!!
They appear content and like to be hand fed but seem to like the sweet stuff (grapes and melon, but also Romaine lettuce and cabbage). They forage for dry stuff and munch on random thinks in their habitat and I have planted recommended plants from the nursery. There are mature cacti, aloe, weeds, grasses, etc., in their habitat.
My question is that I leave for much of the summer, back every few weeks. I can have friends, neighbors check on them, but how can I make sure that they are getting what they need nutritionally if Iām not around too much to manage?
Thank you in advance! Loving these girls!!