Hello everyone. A while back my husband and I brought home a young Greek tortoise with, unfortunately, bad information on his care. I am finally ready to build him a large indoor enclosure, but the more research I do, the more unsure I feel.
My husband is military, so we live in a rental. It's a house, with a small yard, but the yard is completely overgrown with thistle (we pulled these darn things up from the roots last year and now they've multiplied 100-fold!).
Now I can build him a 6' x 3' indoor enclosure. He's pyramiding (it's starting to get bad and it makes me feel like I'm the worst person on Earth), but we can't build him an outdoor enclosure. I do try to let him out whenever possible, but I know it's not as often as we should, nor for as long as it should be.
I really don't like the idea of rehoming, but I also don't like the idea of keeping him enclosed more often than not and just giving him the minimum requirements. That's not how I like to do things. I thought I had done my research, I checked several different information sites, and now I'm just angry at myself for not being more thorough and careful about making sure the information I had was correct.
I really want to do right by this guy, and without being able to give him an outdoor enclosure, I feel like that's not really possible. I'm looking for any advice, recommendations, anything.
My husband is military, so we live in a rental. It's a house, with a small yard, but the yard is completely overgrown with thistle (we pulled these darn things up from the roots last year and now they've multiplied 100-fold!).
Now I can build him a 6' x 3' indoor enclosure. He's pyramiding (it's starting to get bad and it makes me feel like I'm the worst person on Earth), but we can't build him an outdoor enclosure. I do try to let him out whenever possible, but I know it's not as often as we should, nor for as long as it should be.
I really don't like the idea of rehoming, but I also don't like the idea of keeping him enclosed more often than not and just giving him the minimum requirements. That's not how I like to do things. I thought I had done my research, I checked several different information sites, and now I'm just angry at myself for not being more thorough and careful about making sure the information I had was correct.
I really want to do right by this guy, and without being able to give him an outdoor enclosure, I feel like that's not really possible. I'm looking for any advice, recommendations, anything.