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  1. Zaffy

    When all around is parched a green smorgasbord is just the thing.

    Dandelion leaves, broccoli, cucumber, rocket, and ice-plant.
  2. Zaffy

    On holiday

    Two weeks in Dorset. The sun and the rain on my shell and a good crop of dandelions. What more can a 70 year old Greek tortoise want?
  3. Zaffy

    A Bouquet of wildflowers for breakfast

    Lady's bedstraw, buttercup, knapweed, hawkweed, trefoil, and bindweed. Boris said thank you very much, but you can keep your bindweed YUCK!
  4. Zaffy

    Evening temperature

    I inherited an elderly tortoise called Boris. I look after Boris in mostly the same way his owner did. Boris hibernates when he is ready and wakes up when he is ready, and in the latter case far too early for me, about January time. He then roams around the house doing his own thing waiting for...
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    escape artist

    Boris is hibernating at the moment. But when he is awake he spends his time trying to escape. If there is someone to watch him, he has free run for an hour or more most days of an enormous garden. I put him in a penned area for the rest of the time but I have had to make it bigger and bigger...
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    How long to keep awake per day before hibernation.

    I have a 60 year old tortoise that belonged to my brother. At hibernation time, brother used to put tortoise in a cardboard box in October. In April tortoise would wake up. Brother looked after tortoise instinctively and never sought advise. He just let tortoise do what it wanted to do. I...
  7. Zaffy

    Boris eating white food.

    Saturday in the garden eating rose petals.
  8. Zaffy

    Rose Petals

    Today I enjoyed some rose petals.
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    Today, I have mainly eaten violets.

    Today I have mainly eaten violets.
  10. Zaffy

    Greek tortoise awake light levels

    My small Greek tortoise is awake, has been since December. Tortoise is getting on for 60 years-old and belonged to my brother who had him from the year dot. Brother did not read up about tortoises just seemed to do his own thing. Vet saw tortoise for the first time last year and said he was...
  11. Zaffy

    Hibernation Testudo Graeca

    A couple of days ago, my adult spur thighed Testudo Graeca tortoise started to hibernate. Last night, I read not to allow tortoise to hibernate until tortoise has been to the toilet and not fed for 2 weeks after that. So, I got my tortoise out of his box and put him in some warm water...
  12. Zaffy

    why does my avatar have two pictures

    I have posted a question and an avatar but the avatar has a large and a small picture. Any ideas what I have done wrong. Thanks
  13. Zaffy

    Please identify tortoise

    I am looking after my brother's tortoise, which he has had for 50 years. A worrying experience for me, but so far we are doing fine, I think. The funny thing is, my brother has no idea what sort of tortoise it is. The tortoise is called Boris but I wonder if it might be female. Thank you for...
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