Thank you for your response :) I'm not certain that this is fear. She was quite happy for the first 2 months. She would explore, go in her water bowl, bask, etc. She would go in her hide for a day or two, but always come back out to eat. I suppose I thought she was wanting to hibernate because...
I recently rescued a box turtle walking down my suburban street. You could tell she had been a pet by her severely overgrown nails and beak. I've had her for a few months now. Here in CO it's beginning of winter, and as soon as it got cold she burrowed to the bottom of her substrate (soil and...