ellie blumenthal
Member
I am new here, and badly need help. For an introduction - so that you see a person behind my problems with Vova - I am an older person from Alabama. We are empty-nesters, we have two doggies, and a few months ago - on July 4th - we picked up a native box turtle. She ( we mis-gendered her and called her James) - lived with us until late fall, when it started getting colder. Initially she was in a tank, then in an outside enclosure. She began preparing for hibernation ( ate very well before that, crickets cockroaches and and fruit and berries) - and I was tortured that our pen was not good for hibernation. She decided so herself and escaped. I am glad. By that time however we picked up a male box turtle, and he is hibernating in that outside pen, covered by lots of leaves and needles inside an acrylic house/hide he chose. I do hope he will be okay but I worry.
My indoors russian tortoise Vova stopped eating, and your nice forum members told me that he was probably not warm enough. I am fixing that, and we are upgrading his pen to a three times larger space without glass.
Nice to be here!
Ellie
My indoors russian tortoise Vova stopped eating, and your nice forum members told me that he was probably not warm enough. I am fixing that, and we are upgrading his pen to a three times larger space without glass.
Nice to be here!
Ellie
