This "trick" is only for turtles and tortoises that aren't eating and have swollen shut eyes. It's not a cure-all, and unless you fix the reason why the eyes swelled shut in the first place, they're just going to swell shut again after the soaks.
Using a bowl with tall sides (so the animal...
For the past few days I've been smelling a chemical-type odor in my entryway, right outside my bedroom door. I couldn't find where it was coming from.
After I was finished with my outside chores, I came in and sat in my recliner to rest my back. I looked up at the doorway opposite and saw this...
In my "Make Do Enclosure" thread I mentioned that I have two and a half female 'regular' leopard tortoises. This was my feeble attempt at making a joke out of this poor tortoise's life previous to coming to live with me. She's mature because the previous owner says she lays eggs, and I have no...
My three amigos, Leonard -
Chasen -
and Zipper -
Got too big for their indoor closed chamber so I moved them outside into the leopard shed, into a smaller area sectioned off from the big tortoises. Zipper lived peaceably with the other two in the house but when I moved them out to the...