Thank you for reining me in on the disease/poison potential risk. I have been thinking about taking her to a vet, so getting a sample of poop to take in would be a good idea. I've been watching the snake decompose for a while now. I'm fairly certain my landlord ran over it with the mower. Nonetheless, I am her care taker and I shouldn't let her eat certain things. However, when I see her smell poisonous berries and not eat them, I can't help but trust her "judgement".
Please remove the poisonous berries from her enclosure. Many others have trusted their torts "judgement" with fatal results. Easy to assume they have a sixth botanical sense, but this has been false so many times. We regularly hear about tortoises who have eaten plastic bags, sponges, and poisonous plants.
In regards to the skeleton, this may have been a way of getting needed calcium. I'd put a broken up piece of cuttlebone in the enclosure.
My Elsa Elizabeth totally ignored cuttlebones for the first 2 years or so, so we scraped it over dampened greens she was eating. Now for some reason she is happy to eat cuttlebone bones and really goes to town on them!Well the berries are outside when she is taking a "walk" longer than what her enclosure can do for her. But i don't let her near the berries anymore, after I realized.
I used to have a cuttle bone in her enclosure, but she never touched it, so I ground it up to a powder and I will put it on her food every now and then, she doesn't mind that.
My Elsa Elizabeth totally ignored cuttlebones for the first 2 years or so, so we scraped it over dampened greens she was eating. Now for some reason she is happy to eat cuttlebone bones and really goes to town on them!
Oh, MY!!!!!I have seen a desert tortoise in my yard eating a lizard (I think it was dead).
Yes the guy from kamp Kenan said that many tortoises may start munching on a dead animal when they come across one in the wildI have seen a desert tortoise in my yard eating a lizard (I think it was dead).