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I may have to move out of CA and I don't know anyone who can adopt him. I really don't know how to go about this and I'm hopping I can find a responsible person in the Southern CA High desert. I've had him for 10 years and he is used to hibernating outside every year.

My DT came out after over 5 month hibernation 4 days ago and hasn’t drank anything. I expected him to be drinking up as much as he could, but he’s just not interested. He did eat a teaspoon of wet food yesterday and some grass, but it just doesn’t seem like enough. I had him over 10 years and...

It was climbing on top of my Lady Banks Roses bordering my property. I’m used to it full of small birds and was surprised by the way my dogs were carrying on. At first I thought it was a squirrel which I have seen under a shed out back, but then I noticed droppings on the block wall. Anyway I...

I believe my Desert Tortoise is hibernating but somethings been drinking the water and eating his food. His food bowl has been completely empty and I have been keeping his water bowl full just in case. I noticed a few days ago that it was wet all around his bowl as if he climbed through it so I...

Just curious if any Southern CA High Desert tortoises started their hibernation yet. It’s been a little cold in the mornings and I haven’t seen my DT for a few days. He stopped eating a week ago and I have been keeping his water full, but I think only the birds and squirrels are drinking it. His...

My 11 year old DT can’t seem to find his food and usually walks right over it. He can see and hear me walking around preparing his food and immediately comes out of his burrow directly toward me. But if I move away from his food he can’t see it. I found that I have to stand right behind his food...

My daughter took this photo yesterday with her cellphone and I was amazed because I just never thought to take a close up like this before especially with a cellphone, but then I'm not up on technology. LOL It’s also probably the first time I’ve seen my tortoise up close like this and was just...

I have to go out at first light every day to pick up the dog poop from 4 dogs so that she will not eat it. I also pick it up all through the day and make sure it’s all picked up before dark. I have to draw the line after dark, but I am getting so tired of it. I was sick for a couple of days and...

Every year at this time my Desert Tortoise is up early trying to get out of his enclosure. He is relentlessly climbing flower pots, walls and just about anything trying to get out. He is so persistent that I have a hard time of getting him to stop and eat and almost have to feed him by hand. I...

My daughter asked me about my tort on top of an 18”concrete block wall that serves as a planter box. I thought she was talking about my garden ornaments, but was shocked when I saw it. I was afraid that he would be hurt if he tried getting down on his own so I quickly moved him down. I have no...

I want my Desert tortoise to come for dinner on command so that I don’t have to leave the food out all day. He doesn’t have a regular schedule and if I don’t feed him when he’s out, he will not eat the food when it dries out or it will be eaten by birds and other animals. Today I just missed...

I wasn’t sure what it was at first, but something has been eating my desert tortoise’s food and drinking its water. I now know for sure that it’s a ground squirrel after seeing it on numerous occasions. It’s been pretty hot and dry for a while and about the only source for water is the...

:oops: I’ve had a bad couple of months making coffee and have had to clean coffee up from the kitchen counter just too many times. All it takes is to not push the carafe all the way in its spot or not push the filter basket all the way in. I noticed yesterday that someone left a sponge next to...

My dog page is having a problem with Incontinence and we’ve tried everything for a year now. I’m just about to order more pills for her, but she hates them and it is such a chore to get her to eat them. We can’t allow her in the house because urine is literally running down her tail and gets...

First off I don’t know if there are any laws against this and I don't know how to capture them if it is legal. I don’t know a thing about them except that I see them all the time while at work. I want to use them to help get rid of bugs and I’m not sure if they will even stay in my yard. I used...

A branch loaded with tomatoes broke to the ground and my DT found them. I’m not sure how many he ate, but his head was covered in tomato like he had his head all the way inside it. Reminded me of a little kid who got into the chocolate cake. :eek: Do I need to worry?

I just found out that I may have to also worry about squirrels as well as raccoons and rats threatening my tortoise. I don’t have any proof of this, but I just read a story of one eating a snake. http://abc7.com/science/squirrel-eats-snake-at-guadalupe-mountains-national-park/840854/ I have...

The toddlers next door have found it fun to toss things over the wall and have me retrieve them. Today I found a piece of child’s blue sidewalk chalk near my tortoises burrow and it looks like there are a couple of small bites out of it. The bites look too small to be from a toddler although...

It’s been really hot here for a while, in the triple digits and everything is just so, so dry. I know that it is cooler down inside, but I looked down the entrance to my desert tortoise’s underground burrow and its pretty much all fine dust. Anyway I want to spray water down the tunnel into the...

This is not unusual, but I always get excited just the same when I see a Desert Tortoise in the wild. I don’t like to move them but I just couldn’t take the chance of running it over with my large work truck trying to straddle it because it was dead center of the road. I did notice an...