OK I was talking about this in my thread on my awesome new leopard enclosure that I got from Mark. My tortoise decided to quit using his hide. He outgrew his hide from his lousy old enclosure and I got a plastic shoebox and wrapped it in foil for his new enclosure and he was avoiding it and was apparently terrified of it. I went out and got a fancy tortoise hide box that was black and he stared at it and went in and out multiple times and then decided he didn’t wanna be in it anymore. I’m used to seeing my desert tortoises brrrowing and then looking out of the burrows and I have no doubt leopards burrow and it’s perfectly healthy and I feel like a complete idiot showing these pictures and asking but I’ve never seen my tortoises burrow where their heads are craning up out of the substrate with the shell stuffed in the substrate and I just wanna make sure that, since it’s a new home for him, he’s not having any problems. He’s in the very back behind the spider plant so I couldn’t get a good angle on it but his neck is fully stretched and his shell is half buried in the orchard bark. When I came in he was asleep with his head sticking straight up and then he woke up and started staring at me with his head propped on the orchard bark a little bit and at first I thought it was cute and then I started wondering if he was sick. He isn’t eating quite as much but I’m not surprised about that because every time he’s had a change in his environment he has been hesitant to eat and he’s defecating and drinking normally. I think he’s just deciding to sleep in the substrate and likes it but I just need some reassurance I guess. I don’t know if it’s true of all leopards but he has a habit of just staring when I’m trying to watch him and won’t move until I leave rawhide well enough that he’s unaware that I’m there. I understand that they’re shy but he just stares no matter where I move...his head follows but his body doesn’t. This tortoise is going to be the death of me.