Thank you for your response, he seams to doing great now back to normal now, I keep checking his poo and all looks fine, not sure what really happened but it's not happening now
Thank you, that I will look out for, he or she is great now, and I would like to know if male or female, my vet couldn't tell, but that's a great idea ?
Are thinking it was left from the previous owners, or may be escaped from some one who owns him, as I know if I lost my tortoise I would be beside myself until I found him
Thank you to everyone who gave advice, bath is clean lol its a common occurrence with coby lol, he has made a full recovery, but I have taken the advice and am feeding him more fruit, he spends a lot of time in the sun so I'm spraying him with water from a spray bottle to stop him drying out, in...
Well it is now because I wasn't happy with the amount but he was taking a bath, and now I'm over the moon coby has done exactly what I wanted lol check pic
Well late last night when coby was in the bath he did a poo, it was really hard and tightly nit together, Im thinking that when he got cold maybe his digestion slowed up and if he ate the dry dog biscuits maybe it was hard to digest, and today he's have a sleep under his lamp, but he's having a...
Update on coby!!! It's a glorious day in the UK today sunbathing weather, coby went to the back door we open it and he's gone outside and has not stopped eating grass and dandy lions he's been on the go all afternoon I have covered his shell with a damp cloth fir a bit so the sun doesn't dry him...
Thank you for your message, I would say that my house very safe as its on to levels so he has the run of the snug and kitchen, which is kept hotter than the rest of the house, the food on the plate is finely chopped carrot with calcium powder on it, the bulb in the heat lamp, I have just changed...
I get that an enclosure is the norm but I tried one for quiet some time and he didn't like it, it upset him so I can care for his needs with out locking him away, with his shell are you saying he's not getting wet enough or to wet, as I do soak him 3 times a week and wet his shell is that enough...
Yes we do love him and so do the dogs as they all ly together in front of the fire, I have been trying to find a vet but the UK is on lockdown but I have contacted a local zoo and there getting back to me, that's why I joined this forum to get some information, I will feel happy once he's made a...
Hi Karen just an update coby has just started to eat again the noise has declined quite a bit, coby has had two soaks today and hasn't pooed but he's eating and seaming a lot less stressed I will keep you updated, here is a couple of pictures him her, we are. Not sure whether a boy or girl
Thank you so much for your reply he or she seems to be a bit better this morning as I stayed up with him soaking him her in the bath through the night, I do understand that people like to keep there tortoise in an enclosure, but we like our animals to have the run of the house, we keep our house...
Generally speaking if a tortoise this big gets cold over night what is the worst case, as he's never got cold before, as he lives in the house with us and there is under floor heating around the house
Well we have had him eight years from a tiny baby he has had the run of the house, and once in that time he has got out, without us knowing, we care about our tortoise and I just looking for information, not to be judged, as we are worried about him, he is well looked after
Hi there we live in the UK, the tortoise lives in the house with us it has a heat lamp that's on permanent and it goes where it likes, the temperature in the day was 14 degrees c and sunny but at night it would have dropped to 4or5 degrees c, the tortoise is quite big probably 14 inches long and...