Thanks for all of the info, this is exactly what I was looking for. I will move him off of kale and try mincing the more appropriate succulents/weeds you mentioned. He did like the spineless prickly pear I got for him once, that should be pretty easy to get a hold of here.
We are new custodians of a 20-year old desert tortoise (Cooper), raised in captivity. We live in Southern Arizona, in Tucson.
He has free range of the back yard, in which there are several clumps of native grass, mallows, native wildflowers, and weeds (bermuda grass & etc.)
However, he seems...
We recently adopted a 20-year old desert tortoise, we were told he was rescued as a hatchling.
I dug him a deep burrow, reinforced roof with a metal trash barrel cut in half +20 inches of soil on top, north-northwest facing.
However he keeps coming under our patio and nestling at the back...