My juvenile CDT has settled in for the night in a corner outside her burrow. Should I let her stay there, or tuck her in the burrow with her brother? I'm assuming it has something to do with the extreme heat we had today in SoCal.
thatrebecca said:It appears he has other things to do than obsess about torts. Can you imagine?
Tom said:thatrebecca said:It appears he has other things to do than obsess about torts. Can you imagine?
What????? This is like a foreign language. I see some words, but it does not compute. What is this "other things to do..." you speak of? I only understand the part about obsessing over the tortoises...
Tom said:Hmmm.... Judgement call. She's not totally exposed to the outside surface air there, but she's more exposed to it than if she were in a proper burrow or hide box. I worry about our cool nights with all the dew right now. She's certainly able to warm up durning the day, but that cold damp air all night cannot be good.
I vote you put her in her "burrow".
On a related note: Over the years I have found it much easier to move the house to where the tortoise wants to be, instead of trying to make the tortoise go where WE want the house. Don't know if that little tidbit is pertinent to this situation or not, but if its an option to move the burrow...
ellen said:I used take my tortoises out and pet them for a couple minutes if I caught them sleeping outside of their burrow. Then I would set them in front of the entrance. They promptly scuttled into the burrow afterward.
It was fun for me, a lesson about predators for them, and now they sleep in the very back of their burrow cuddling together every night.
"If we don't sleep in here, then she's going to coo at us!"