Thanks, everyone!! We ended up leaving him home and did an even shorter trip than planned so we could get home earlier to see him. He did great at home by himself and we think he was excited to see us when we got back :) When he is a little older, do you think it is less stressful for him to...
He currently lives in a 4 foot x 3 foot enclosure, so his tortoise table is too big to fit in our car....we would have to transport him in a large tote.
We are traveling four hours away for a short, two day trip (leaving Friday night and coming back Sunday evening). Do you think it's stressful for a baby red foot tortoise to travel for four hours in a car? I would feel more comfortable bringing him with us as opposed to leaving him home as we...
Hi everyone- Thanks so much again for all of your help!! Yvonne, we eliminated the cool/room temperature side in his enclosure, so thanks for that advice.
Our baby red foot is back to normal now after spending three days with the vet. The vet discovered that the medication our tortoise was...
The humidity on the cool side is between 52 & 60. (Sorry, I didn't explain that well...humidity is harder to maintain on the warm side so I check that one more frequently....). When we first got our baby tortoise, we did not do the warm side and cool side, but our vet recommended it. He said...
We have offered protein in the past, but will try again- thanks for the advice!! :)
We believe our red foot is 6 months old- he is the size of my palm. We purchased him from a breeder. The vet said it's a bacterial respiratory infection and there were a moderate number of gram posive rods and...
We have an adorable red foot tortoise that we got a month ago. We took him to the vet right away and his stool sample came back clean for parasites, but he had a very bad respiratory infection. We have been watching him very closely (monitoring temp, humidity and giving him daily medication as...