Q. Can I use the same refrigerator I use to keep food in?
A. No. Absolutely not. There is a SERIOUS danger that food could become contaminated with potentially LETHAL pathogens, including salmonella. No refrigerator used for tortoise hiberbation should EVER be used to keep food or drink in...
Few issues I have with that:
1) *THE* Frigerator? Meaning the same one you have foods in? Foods that may or may not be good for the guy to be around?
2) Oxygen?
3) I suppose an extra frig turned up to 50 degrees or so could work... but how do you know when he is ready to get up? Just set...
Wow, you're 100% right. I've looked up pictures and he's that exactly. We found him walking down the middle of a busy two lane road in a residentual area March of last year, looked up pictures and figured he was just a Desert pup.
The Russian pictures match him exactly. I suppose we should...
This is Emmett, our 3-year-old desert tortoise:
He's getting ready for his hibernation, but I am afraid it's going to be an unusually warm fall in southern california. I know last hibernation he was a tad restless, so I want him to be comfortable.
Some of the days in november will...
I have a ~2 year old Desert Tortoise who I got in March. In the first week of November I hibernated him inside after doing a bit of reading on it. Just like was expected he hadn't eaten anything in about a week and a half and was very listless.
I hibernated him in a box inside with an...