I have a rescued Russian Tortoise for sale for $100 (cash only). We've had him for years, but I don't feel he's getting the attention or care he needs from his 12-year-old owner, and I don't have the time I used to. This little guy had a rough start. I took him from a man who used to let his...
Today is 80+ degrees outside and we were putting up the pool so I figured it was the perfect time to introduce Chekhov to the outdoors. He was kept in a 20 gallon glass aquarium for the first years of his life, so this was his first outing.
Chekhov wouldn't come out of his shell until we...
After weeks of growing weeds from the Carolina Pet's Russian Weed Mixture... I was so excited to introduce Chekhov to it. He's been eating spring mix mostly, but has had a few dandelions as they creep up. I thought he'd LOVE some fresh munchies.
Nope... he just walked all over and...
So far so good, Lynn. He's still really skittish around me, but loves my youngest and runs to her when he sees her. Of course, she feeds him and I bathe him. He sleeps head down in the sand though, drives me nuts. I don't know how he breathes. He tries so hard to dig his way out of the...
I'm so loving my RT! I think it might be time for another though and the tort table is big enough. Is there another breed of tortoise that RT's get along with? I'm afraid to get another RT because if it's male I heard they fight. I've read contrasting information and would love to hear from...
Just me and my husband get the silent treatment. I'm guessing our footsteps are heavy enough he just hides because I bathe him. Both of my girls get to see him out and about.
I was so worried about my rescued Chekhov. I never saw him out of his hide. His food was gone, but I always have to dig him out of his hide to bathe him, which I feel kind of diminishes the safeness of a hide... but I NEVER caught him out of it!
So yesterday my youngest was down there...
It's been a long 2 weeks! When his bladder fell out the doctor was pretty sure he wasn't going to make it through the night. Well yesterday he got his stitches out and the vet even had a hard time holding onto him. When I first got him, he didn't fight a thing.
So he's doing great!! He...
Little bugger is driving me nuts. I'm supposed to lessen his time on the substrate to keep his tail out of the coir... suuuuure. He slept solely in his hide, buried in timothy hay, for days, but last night he dug into the substrate so deeply I couldn't see anything but a lump. So I dutifully...
Eeeps! Hadn't thought of that... I'll keep an eye on it. So far he can't get onto the aloe plant. He's tried![hr]
hehe, moved the thermometer just in case.
Couple questions on my sickly Russian
1. He walks on his toenails. Is that normal? On coir he walks flat-footed but when he goes up on the rock that I feed him on, he walks on the tips of his toenails.
2. He hissed at me. o.O I was putting medicine on the plastron at his neck and he...
We finally got Chekov out of the box and into his new home. I had planned on it being bigger and painted, but he needed out of the box so it's only 2ft x 4ft and I'll have to paint it this summer when he can go outside.
It's nothing fancy but here's the outside view
The right side has...
The soaking worked. I was able to give him a soak without his tail touching the water. I have to admit he acted a bit indignant and tried to crawl off my hand, poor guy hehe
Yup... ran to the store to buy some medical gloves so I don't infect his tail... and then I held his bum out of the...
Chekov had a really good night. I checked on him at 2am and 4am and he was deep asleep in his hide. This morning at 7am he was out and about. His tail looks great! Yesterday it was sticking straight out and had a bulge in it... this morning it's curved around to his leg again and no bulge :)...