I know the obvious answers of "as soon as they start fighting", and "you shouldn't house more than one tortoise to begin with", but hear me out here.
I have two tortoises, one I had from 3 months old from a pet shop, now about 8 years old, and one more recent one I got from a rehoming...
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My tortoise Abe has come down with the snifflies. The vet went through a general environment check with me and cannot determine anything particular that strikes as causing the runny nose. He is in good spirits and eats well and went for a good run around in the vet office too. But he...
Many thanks. She does have a cuttlefish bone, hopefully she’ll take to giving it a nibble. I forgot to ask about hibernating, since my sulcata doesn’t do that. Will she give me signs that she wants to hibernate at some point, or do I have to induce it myself? Is she old enough to hibernate, or...
Hi all, a friend knows I have a sulcata and asked me if I could take on a tortoise from someone else. I said yes just because it seemed they had nowhere else to go and recieved her today. She’s a tiny little Greek tortoise, fortunately she came with her annex certificate so it’s not as dubious...
Hi all, I know for a fact that cat food is one heck of a big no no for herbivores, let alone slow growing tortoises... So why is it that they always seem so set on trying to eat it?
I often let my Sulcata out of his tortoise table to have a walk around the house, and one of the first things I...
It seems I was too late in posting this. I went to go get some pictures for you, but it seems within this hour he has sadly passed away. I’m absolutely gut wrenched, he had been moving around today so I thought he’d have held on long enough for the vets.
Unfortunately it’s hard to see the...
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I've been having a fairly bad week this week as it seems constant after constant misfortune has been befalling me; from taking in an injured parakeet that may suffer from seizures, to passing out on the bus, but Sunday's events have really topped the cake.
I have two sulcata tortoises...