We were at the local Al's Garden Center today and saw some Coco Mulch for sale. We first thought it was coconut but turns out it is cocoa bean shells ground up. Does anyone know anything about it and whether it is okay to use? It was of similar texture to the cypress mulch and appeared to...
Hey Maggie, just great to see you up here. I just appreciate you and your sis. We always get the poop and pee out as soon as we see it (or smell it -PU!) We use the mulch for quite a while-the bulk of it lasts several months probably originally from October. But sometimes the pee seems to be...
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It is us again. So N2torts had those beauty leopard baby pics which my son and I just oooohed and awed over. But there was filbert mulch it looked like. That is readily ( I mean very ) available here in Portland OR area. Is it safe for tort tables? I would wonder if too sharp??? Anyone...
Hi all from Oregon,
Been a while for us as we are just darn busy being 2 working parents with 2 boys, a tort, kitty and fish! Happy to report our Frankie (female Russian) has done great this winter as we decided not to hibernate her the first time (for us-previous owner had not). She is just...
Frankie loves it when the boys bring her fresh clover and dandelions from outside. We laugh because she always eats the flowers first. There are lots in her outside enclosure but these are from Sunday when it was raining. The good news is that we got one more dose of sun this week and she has...
Hi all, I will keep looking but if a moderator can recommend a good previous thread on hibernation. We are debating for Frankie. Her previous owner never did. We did hibernate her last year but she came out seemingly fine and then immediately came down with RNS (and Chris was in China and I...
Hi just sending our support. We have Frankie, our Russian, who is a total escape artist. We had an incident early this summer with her getting out and trucking way across our thanfully quiet street to the culdesac way over there and into the neighbors yard. This is after she crossed and...
Hi from Oregon. Our almost summer is apparently coming to an abrupt end. It is @ 64 and rainy today and tomorrow. I feel so bad for Frankie as it is back to the tort table. No more wonderful tort frolic outside all day. She has loved her outside digs-althought we laughed as some days all...
Hi from finally summery Oregon. We are trading in our umbrellas finally for very hot weather. Our little Russian Frankie loves the mid-morning/early afternoon and late afternoon evening time in her newly escape proofed outside run. She continues to amaze us with how sweet and comfortable she...
We balanced eachother's posts today. Our neighbor saved our escapee Russian Frankie today. So we love our neighbor. But really we are lucky. There are few herbicide/pesticide users in our neighborhood as there are so many little children. Our one neighbor who is two houses down always...
Let me preface this with Friday night our older son had an accident on the playground and had to go for stitches so I was all ready on mommy guilt alert. Now that the Oregon weather is on a warm roll. We have been letting our Russian Frankie out in her temporary pen that we built with remaining...