Happy tort
New Member
Hi everyone
As I’m new I will introduce flash my tortoise.
He is a 12yr old spur thighed tortoise according to the paperwork.
I have had him for about five years and he came from my stepson.
He was always kept in a tortoise type thing about 4ft long 2ft wide with a heat lamp.
Don’t think he was happy for the first two years of having him and was always scratching as if he wanted to get out.
Well about three years ago tried him in the garden and he was much happier then he disappeared.
Ah well thought that was it even though there was no way out of the garden.
Then a few months later was doing the flower beds and came across the little beggar buried so it must have been in hibernation which he never had chance to do before.
So that’s how it’s been for the last few years as I’ve made him a shelter under a large plastic storage bin.
Where he hibernates.
He comes out every day and sits in the sun and roams the garden and didn’t realise how fast they are.
Don’t like us messing with his garden and gets very defensive if I’m doing some weeding hem will come up to me and start head butting my legs (well she’ll butting if you know what I mean).
If he gets no joy with that he likes to. bite me.
So that’s his introduction done with do I now have a question the back part of his shell curls under inwards is this normal as it looks like it protects his bits.
Regards
Tony
As I’m new I will introduce flash my tortoise.
He is a 12yr old spur thighed tortoise according to the paperwork.
I have had him for about five years and he came from my stepson.
He was always kept in a tortoise type thing about 4ft long 2ft wide with a heat lamp.
Don’t think he was happy for the first two years of having him and was always scratching as if he wanted to get out.
Well about three years ago tried him in the garden and he was much happier then he disappeared.
Ah well thought that was it even though there was no way out of the garden.
Then a few months later was doing the flower beds and came across the little beggar buried so it must have been in hibernation which he never had chance to do before.
So that’s how it’s been for the last few years as I’ve made him a shelter under a large plastic storage bin.
Where he hibernates.
He comes out every day and sits in the sun and roams the garden and didn’t realise how fast they are.
Don’t like us messing with his garden and gets very defensive if I’m doing some weeding hem will come up to me and start head butting my legs (well she’ll butting if you know what I mean).
If he gets no joy with that he likes to. bite me.
So that’s his introduction done with do I now have a question the back part of his shell curls under inwards is this normal as it looks like it protects his bits.
Regards
Tony