Recent content by fifthdawn

Yep, the reason why you can't overdose in the sun is because your body will only make enough d3 as it needs. When its supplemented orally, your body has to use it all up. While you can overdose on D3, it is extremely hard to overdose which is why you rarely hear about overdose in d3. Infact, you...

You can definately keep dogs and tortoises, but there is always the possibility of unexpected attack. If its expected, it wouldn't happen then. To be safe, just keep them seperate or undersupervision when together. There seems to be the argument going on in this thread as if its arguing for...

There can't be any garentee with dogs, but what you can do is minimize the probability that an attack with happen by focusing on the genetics of the breed. Breeds vary so much in personaility that many breeds are known for their intellgence, or friendliness, and other characteristics. Your...

Although I disagree with a lot of the way you've defended your arguments Janie, I have agree on the point that there should be warnings on the potential size and care sulcata's need. Although there are no legal obligations (I could be wrong, not a law major), I feel there should be a moral...

I guess what he's trying to say is there can be multiple temperature that they will be happy at or specifically, a range of temperature which they will continue to "behavior, eat, grow, etc." Maybe 85 degree is within that range in which they're "content" I'm not saying 85 isn't good but maybe...

I think even within a species, it varies from tortoise to tortoise. My two redfoots have two hides on opposite ends. One end is about 75 degrees and other end is around 85. The hot spot/basking area is in the mid that ranges from 90-105. They're both cherry heads, but they both prefer different...

No species are "designed to" not need UVB during certain seasons. When you get down to the molecular level in all biological species, they're almost exactly the same. First, you need to understand the scientific reasoning for UVB. UVB help create vitamin D3 which is necessary for calcium...

I have absolutely no experience with the other species and this is a totally biased opinion lol, but Cherry heads :D

Nope cant photoshop lol. Its a b/w photo class so I actually have to develope the film. Its anywhere from 5-10 prints, but I think for this assignment, less print would work better. If I use alot of prints, I risk having some print not portraying a squirrels vision and that'll throw off my theme...

Thanks for suggestions. Its a 50mm lens and since its part of the course, I'm not allow to switch out lens. I can take shots, I just can't have detailed shots closer than about 10 inches or closer, it'll be out of focus.

For my finals in photography, my topic of choice is "Squirrel vision" I need to capture what it would be like to view the world from a squirrels eye. The difficulty lies in having the image look as if its from a point of view of a small animal rather than just a scene shot. The assignment...

First, I'd like to point out that you'd probably won't get very objective answers because the questions being asked are subjective. I think its safe to say, you need BOTH knowledge through experience and knowledge through reason (science or education). We can imagine someone only having one...

Please don't let him slowly die, that would be cruel. Torture is much worse than death. The goal should be to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. As others suggested, try and get oral sedatives from a vet.

If you can't get a vet to come to you're home and you had to choose between home or vet, I'd choose the vet. Lung cancer causes a large amount of suffering over time, I would rather my pet be real scared for couple of minutes and pass away than to have them slowly suffocate for the next...

I was just talking about tortoises. I'm not saying they can't get certain disease. I have a feeling for reptiles, there is very little documented illnesses. Majority of the problems we tend to see on forums are temperature or humidity problem, which are even disease. The rest of the majority...