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Hi y'all,
Been a while since I have been on but I still love this forum.
As you may remember, about 2 years ago, I adopted 5 Desert Tortoises, unfortunately I lost one but the other 4 have been wonderful. Growing by leaps and bounds and thus my question.
When they were younger, each one dug their own burrow and basically stayed or sometimes switched with each other but as they grew, they abandonded 2 of the burrows, 1 was taken over and then abandonded by the round tailed ground squirrels. So fast forward to this year, I have placed some additional sod in their enclosure and they promptly dug a new burrow on the edge of the sod.
So what I have is 4 torts and 2 burrows. It seems that lately, as the weather changes (I'm in Phoenix) I have 2 that are sharing a burrow, 1 that never seems to share and one that for the last week has not been underground. Sleeps near the fence of their enclosure and seems to not even make an attempt to secure a new location.
I did go out the other day and try and expand one of the older burrows, put her/him in the entry way, she entered but did not go all the way in and after I left, she went right back to her spot on the wall.
SORRY FOR THE DRAWN OUT STORY
My question would be should I be concerned and should I dig a totally new burrow for her, in the hopes that she will use it or really what should or could I do for her. I'll be checking back this afternoon to see what great answers I get from you awesome folks.
Oh
Have a great day,
Peace,
The Chuckster
Hi y'all,
Been a while since I have been on but I still love this forum.
As you may remember, about 2 years ago, I adopted 5 Desert Tortoises, unfortunately I lost one but the other 4 have been wonderful. Growing by leaps and bounds and thus my question.
When they were younger, each one dug their own burrow and basically stayed or sometimes switched with each other but as they grew, they abandonded 2 of the burrows, 1 was taken over and then abandonded by the round tailed ground squirrels. So fast forward to this year, I have placed some additional sod in their enclosure and they promptly dug a new burrow on the edge of the sod.
So what I have is 4 torts and 2 burrows. It seems that lately, as the weather changes (I'm in Phoenix) I have 2 that are sharing a burrow, 1 that never seems to share and one that for the last week has not been underground. Sleeps near the fence of their enclosure and seems to not even make an attempt to secure a new location.
I did go out the other day and try and expand one of the older burrows, put her/him in the entry way, she entered but did not go all the way in and after I left, she went right back to her spot on the wall.
SORRY FOR THE DRAWN OUT STORY
My question would be should I be concerned and should I dig a totally new burrow for her, in the hopes that she will use it or really what should or could I do for her. I'll be checking back this afternoon to see what great answers I get from you awesome folks.
Oh
Have a great day,
Peace,
The Chuckster
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